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| I 'Aven't The Foggiest by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Brenda is a gauche, middle-aged Yorkshirewoman. (Make your own mind up as to what that means.) |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short prose monologue with no need for a set. |
| Synopsis | Brenda recounts the day she went for a walk and got a lot more than she bargained for. |
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I Googled You by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed at the 2017 Salisbury Fringe 'Short Cuts' playwriting festival. Shortlisted for the 2018 Actor Awareness Intergenerational Night. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play for two actors. Can be performed on a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Felix and Truly meet for the first time on a blind date. Felix is at first taken aback by Truly’s antics in her garden but the date goes ahead. Afterwards, the pair give a surprising final assessment. |
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| I Pledge Thee by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. Minimal set requirements, so could be performed front-of-curtain.
(Also available as part of the Love and Marriage collection of short comedies by Tony Domaille) |
| Synopsis | Jeff wants to renew his wedding vows with Rose, but when they meet with the Vicar to make arrangements, things don’t go as Jeff imagined. |
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| I'm Not One To Gossip But... by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Brenda has met up with her old friend Sharon for lunch and a friendly gossip at Phillip's café. Through the gossip, a few skeletons in Phillip's cupboard are revealed. |
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| In At The Deep End by Kate Phimy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch, with an optional - living room - setting. |
| Synopsis | Shirley's mid-life crisis continues as she searches for something to take her out of the rut of domesticity, but husband Pete wants the quiet life. He surprises Shirley as she secretly rehearses for her very odd new hobby, but as it happens - all turns out rather well. |
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| In the Gallery by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The Scream and the Security Guard are written as male. In theory, they could undergo gender reassignment! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Whimsical ten-minute play in which two paintings converse. Single set - an art gallery, mainly with two large frames, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's night time in the gallery and the portraits of the Mona Lisa and the Scream are talking art... |
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| In the Human Resources Office 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 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy play, or possibly a long sketch. Single office set (a desk). |
| Synopsis | Tony has just been made redundant and goes to the Human Resources department to be processed. But Tricia is 'just covering'... |
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| In Vino Veritas by Charles Alverson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting, on the verandah of a large house in America. |
| Synopsis | As a group of female friends wave off the bride and groom to their honeymoon the champagne flows and loosens their tongues, as each confide secrets about themselves and their relationships with some surprising results. |
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| Is That You, Clint? by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Brenda muses about the obscene phone calls her social worker, Shardonnay - with an S - has been receiving. And then about her own calls, after a date-disaster and a no-show, and would it be Clint? |
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| It's Been A While by Bibi Berki & Mark Lingwood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Non-specific lift muzak is to be briefly played at one point in the scene. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a hotel set suggested by props and lighting. Adult content. |
| Synopsis | A couple have booked a hotel room for the consummation of their clandestine love affair. Being inexperienced in this sort of thing, they find there is more to it than they first thought. |
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