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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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Freshly Laid by Frank Gibbons Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a park - simple bench setting. |
Synopsis | The elderly ladies are catching up with the latest - on hens, ducks, and possible other roostings. |
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The Frustrated Poet by Damian Trasler |
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. Simple set (desk and chair). Contains mild swearing. And poetry. |
Synopsis | A poet tries, but, sadly, fails, to write an ode to nightingales... |
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Fundraiser by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short comedy sketch, with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | With funding running low, how might the Cruttock's End Lap Dance and Pole Artistes Collective raise some capital? |
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Garden Gossip 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Two mature ladies are chatting about all manner of things - in the garden of life. |
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Getting Away From It All by Peter Lancaster Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, single set (minimal indication of a travel agent's office). |
Synopsis | A tricky customer finally gets a holiday he's never tried before, but it's somewhere awfully familiar. |
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Give Her One From Me by Croft & Barnett |
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 | An adult comedy sketch with a single, pharmacy counter, setting. |
Synopsis | Thomas has come to Jeremy's pharmacy to buy condoms. In his 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' way Jeremy sufficiently embarrasses Thomas - to lead him to reveal what he is planning to use the condoms for. |
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Global Wetting by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. A mother and her three sons. The location of the piece is part of the joke, and the names of the protagonists make it obvious, however they can easily be withheld from the audience. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch based on a familiar story, though, in this case, not told with any particular moral. No set required. |
Synopsis | Tempers are running high between the three lads. So much so that they won't stop arguing to hear the good news their mother has for them. |
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Godfather Christmas by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two adults and a child, but this is a comedy sketch, and could be equally funny played by all adults or all kids. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Three minute sketch. No set (a chair would help), but indicative clothing would be useful... Warning - contains Santa Claus spoiler! |
Synopsis | Don Abalone makes an offer a kid can't refuse... |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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