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The Driving Test by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch set in a car (which need only be a couple of chairs). From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | The aftermath of a driving test, which doesn't seem to have gone well. Could anything make it go better? |
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Duck by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Three ducks, three swans and three hunters! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play. Single set (no real set requirements) |
Synopsis | Three different varieties of duck are arguing about which is the true Duck, when they are united by the threatening behaviour of the ruling swans. Sadly, before their revolution can get off the ground, three duck hunters arrive. |
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Easywings by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
Synopsis | Icarus has just passed his flying test, but now he's been stopped by a traffic cop. If he gets a ticket, he’ll be banned and his dreams of starting an airline are over. |
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Enjoying the Outdoors by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch set on a camping ground. |
Synopsis | It's a man's world in the great outdoors, but sometimes a few extra luxuries help. |
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Evil Laugh by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs). |
Synopsis | A job applicant with an unfortunate 'disability' attends an interview. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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Fairy Dust Up by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script suggests a song to be played over the opening and closing of the sketch. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short comedy monologue. No set required. |
Synopsis | Olivia is in the dressing room of a small theatre, contemplating her future as a panto fairy. |
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Fine on the Outside by Jonathan Edgington Shortlisted for the 2015 Pint Sized Plays' international playwriting competition. Selected for and performed at The Salisbury Fringe's 'Short Cuts' playwriting festival in 2019. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | In this duologue between husband and wife, the conversation is dominated by the obsessive fitness regime he has undertaken. |
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The Finger of Fate by Peter May |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for two actors, no set necessary. |
Synopsis | It’s the French Revolution, but not all of the peasants are revolting. |
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The Four Yorkshiremen of the Apocalypse by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements (could be done on an open stage or front-of-curtain). |
Synopsis | Famine, Pestilence, War and Death meet to plot the demise of mankind - although their manner seems unexpectedly familiar. |
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Fragrant Friend by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The 'action' takes place in a queue of people in a Post Office, to there are opportunities for non-speaking extras if you so desire. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set or props. |
Synopsis | Two old comrades meet... and one wishes that they hadn't... |
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