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After Twenty Years by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A sketch on a blank stage, based on an O. Henry short story, |
Synopsis | Bob, a wanted criminal, visits New York to see a friend for the first time in twenty years. Ironically, his friend has become a cop. |
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A Beautiful Day for a Duel by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy skit. Single set (with no specific requirements) and a pair as duelling pistols as the main props. |
Synopsis | Andre arrives for his sixth duel of the year to find that his day is in danger of being spoiled by his inexperienced opponent. |
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Brenda the Bunny by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A 'blind date' situation of incompatibility. |
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A Brush with Love by Gerald P. Murphy |
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 for a table, two chairs and a couple of actors. |
Synopsis | George, a test tube brush salesman, finds his perfect partner. |
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The Commandments by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very black comedy, satirising the world of work and petty rules. |
Synopsis | Four guards on their coffee break debate what rules should govern their lives - before their supervisor returns... |
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Eva of the Golden Hair by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short stage adaptation of Saki's The East Wing. |
Synopsis | Socialite Lucien Wattleskeat and Major Boventry, after much deliberation, make heroic efforts to save Eva of the Golden Hair from the blazing East Wing of Lady Gramplain's manor house. |
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Hannah the Horrible by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are two adults and three children (aged 6 to 12). Whilst of course it could be played to age, it could also be performed by a youth theatre company (or even an adult company playing children). |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute (or so) comedy play. |
Synopsis | Hannah seems to be to blame for everything bad that happens in young Karen's class. Karen's mother confronts her teacher... |
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The Little Cottage by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute Irish folk tale. |
Synopsis | The Doyle family have a perfect life, but then Margaret's parents move into their little cottage. They now feel crowded. Father Kelly's advice is to make the cottage even more crowded and has Dennis Doyle bring in goats and chickens, which make matters even worse. |
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A Little North of Turnerville by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch for a table, two chairs and a couple of actors. |
Synopsis | Sandra and Stanley meet on a blind date and realise that having a lot in common is not necessarily a good thing... |
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Me Tarzan, You Jane by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch for a table, two chairs and a couple of actors. |
Synopsis | It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a hefty length of vine must be in want of a swing through the jungle. A blind date throws together Tarzan of the Apes and Miss Jane Austen - but will they hit it off? |
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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