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The Brotherhood of Big Ben by Robert Black |
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 | Short sketch for three actors, no set required. |
Synopsis | Jack Steeple wants to join the secretive Brotherhood of Big Ben, but first he must undergo the initiation ceremony. |
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Brotherly Love by Sarah Reilly |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two children (could be played by four kids.) |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | Jack's sister Emma gives the family a scare after a row with her brother. A short, sweet play examining brother/sister relationships. |
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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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Bubonic Butter by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in the management suite of a dairy products company. |
Synopsis | A boardoom discussion about a name for a new product in the Dairy Delights range. |
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Bud and Jewel - Busted by Carol Kline |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A middle-aged couple. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Character comedy sketch. Single set (indicative of a prison cell). |
Synopsis | Bud's in the slammer for an altercation with his neighbor. His wife Jewel is keen to tell him what she thinks of him, but then he fills her in on the whole story and all of a sudden she's keen to take on the neighbor... |
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Bud and Jewel - Predictable by Carol Kline |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A middle-aged couple. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Character comedy sketch (with some serious points). Single set (in theory, it's Bud and Jewel's home, but there's no real requirement for furniture). Contains very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Jewel has called her husband home early on a work day to give him some bad news - she thinks they've become predictable. Bud argues, but she knows exactly what he's going to say before he opens his mouth, and she can prove it... |
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Budget Airlines by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short in-flight comedy sketch with a minimal set - just a couple of chairs to indicate the aisle of an aircraft. |
Synopsis | When flying with a budget airline it is always a good idea to read the small print to understand exactly what you get for your money - and what is extra... |
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The Business Meeting by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two motivated high flyers plan their strategies in a business meeting with a twist. |
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The Butcher by Terry Adlam |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters described as one male and one female. Could be played by 2M or 2F with minor modifications. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic sketch, madcap style (think Monty Python), two characters simple set and props. |
Synopsis | A customer attempts to buy beef from a crazy butcher. |
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Captain Crimson by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. This is another script in which wooden acting might be an advantage. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Parody sketch. (If you don't understand what is being parodied, then it clearly isn't for you!) |
Synopsis | It's another tough day at crime-fighting organisation PRISM's HQ. Someone has been paralysing the agents of Prism one limb at a time! Could it be the Mysteroffs? And why is Captain Crimson holding those shears? |
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