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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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| Toxic by Chris Hicks |
| 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, dark, comic monologue. It's set in a bar, so might work particularly well in a sketch evening in a cabaret venue (tables and a bar), just by turning a spotlight on the actor at the bar. |
| Synopsis | Steven's criminal past would appear to be at odds with his new job, working in a pub. |
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| The Traffic Warden by TLC Creative |
| 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 comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | A candidate attends an interview for the role of Traffic Warden and is introduced to some details of the package on offer.
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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| Trick Or Treat? [Sketch] by Karen Fitzsimmons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Esme has gone to the doctor for some help - she's being plagued by a vampire that only she can see. And this is no sexy teen vamp, it's a Bela Lugosi-style Prince of Darkness who is, frankly, annoying. The solution is pricey, but we can be pretty sure that it'll work.. |
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| The Trophy by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two mature gentlemen. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set. (In theory, the protagonists are looking at a notice board, but this need not be physical.)
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A championship bowls match is in prospect, but what's coming to the winner? |
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| The Trumpeter by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | With a fanfare, we present the tale of Thomas the Trumpeter and his performance before Her Majesty the Queen. |
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