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| Friendly Bombs by Nicolas Ridley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy short on a single (office) set. |
| Synopsis | The last standing politician (after a wave of scandals and resignations) is not really geared up for a nuclear standoff, as he’s lost the codes. He must find a way out before the general takes over at midnight and fires both the UK’s missiles. |
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| A Frog Too Far by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Could be played by the same, or by a company of either. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book. |
| Synopsis | Miss Primrose tries to tell her class their daily story - a tale of princess meets frog - with the aid of a small troupe of mimes. The children, shall we say, have bright enquiring minds... |
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| The Gangster Game by Kitty Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy play |
| Synopsis | Three wiseguys meet over cards in a shady hotel room, but when one turns out to be an undercover Fed, the guns come out. Then Mum comes in with snacks. |
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| Gateau In Garda by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy with a single (hotel lounge) setting. |
| Synopsis | On holiday near Lake Garda, fitness fanatic Olive and her indolent daughter-in-law Fay do verbal battle, whilst unnoticed by them, husband Andrew suffers catastrophically. |
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| Gerri And The Atrics by Charles Alverson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One offstage voice, M or F |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy. |
| Synopsis | A group of entertainers nearing the end of their career prepare for yet another show, with friendly but sometimes barbed banter. This is interrupted not only by the call to go on stage, but the sudden death of one of their number. |
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| Getoutofmyfacedotcom by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy skit. Single set or, possibly, singular lack of set - the characters are supposed to be interacting with each other via an Internet chat site. |
| Synopsis | Geoff sets up a social networking site to reconnect with fellow ex-pupils from his old school and soon regrets it! |
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| Getting It Off by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The Waiter could easily be a Waitress |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play. Single (café) set. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Shirley and Tracey reflect on the struggle for weight loss in a café. |
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| Gifts by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There is no formal chorus, but an option for a live choir. (Not many people will take up this option.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play, single set. A fantasia on the theme of the twelve days of Christmas. |
| Synopsis | A customer enters a shop that claims to arrange any type of gift with a very specific Christmas list... One that sounds awfully familiar. |
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| Good For The Soul by Roger Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten minute comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Steph wants to make a confession, but it's been a while since her last one, and she’s not too good at getting to the point. Her confessor has some trouble staying focussed, right up to the point where Steph finally admits what she's done. |
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The Great British Panto Chase-Off Quiz by Cheryl Barrett
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun mash of panto and quiz show tropes, which would easily fit into a revue evening. Fast paced with a lot of good jokes. Small cast and could be done under social distancing if needed. |
| Synopsis | Buttons, the presenter of a popular TV quiz, plays host to four pantomime characters determined to win the prize money. In true panto villain style, their opponent, Abanazar, sets out to thwart their plans and steal the prize money. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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