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Suffragette by Stuart Ardern
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| 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 | A simple sketch (for an Edwardian Music Hall). No set - could be done front of curtain. |
| Synopsis | Edward discovers - to his horror - that his wife is leaving... |
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| Superhero Holiday by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements. (The audience have to imagine the palm-fringed beach...) |
| Synopsis | There are times when a hard working super hero has to have a holiday... |
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| Symphony Dreadful by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch for three performers |
| Synopsis | The TV show Talent Today presents a guest who has several of the attributes of the great Ludwig Van Beethoven. But it’s the one that’s missing which causes the problem. |
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| Table for Two by Susan Middaugh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set (which can be indicated by a few props). Could even be played front-of-curtain. |
| Synopsis | A woman tries to secure a table for herself at a popular restaurant. The restaurant wants to fill its tables and keeps offering only tables for two. A novel solution is needed... |
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| Talk in the Park by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. 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 around a park bench.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A chance meeting of old friends and a chance for a catch-up on family gossip. (Or a chance for some daft jokes, depending on how you look at it.) |
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| That Goal by Stan Duncan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, poignant prose monologue of appeal to people for whom interests in football and theatre intersect! |
| Synopsis | Denis is an ex-professional footballer, whose visitors remind him of his past glories. |
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| Thesaurians by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 1 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short comedy sketch of words set in an office. |
| Synopsis | An interviewer attempts to conduct an interview with a candidate who appears to have swallowed a Thesaurus. |
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| The Three Wise 'Men' by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple sketch requiring a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | The three wise men arrive at Bethlehem and pick up their gifts, but one is less manly than expected. Could one of them be a wise... woman? |
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| To Hell With The Housework by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The gender of the speaker is not identified (but he or she definitely has a downer on domesticity). |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming monologue about a big old fight in the cleaning equipment cupboard. |
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| To My Roommate by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The speaker is a girl of college age. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short monologue. (No set or props required.) |
| Synopsis | A brief rant about the joys of sharing a room with someone given to anxiety! |
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