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A Gift Horse by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
Synopsis | Troy has been under siege for ten years and the nightshift for guards on the ramparts is very boring. At least, until an exciting development occurs and the Spartans are leaving. |
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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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. |
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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Give Me the Money by Stephen Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are an 18-year-old and a much older lady, but that's playing age, and there's plenty of scope for the wardrobe and make-up departments to accommodate actors of other ages. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun, punchy sketch. Easy to stage and could fit well into variety evenings. |
Synopsis | A youth attempts to rob a post office, but the elderly postmistress turns the tables on him. |
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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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. |
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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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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The Gods by Tony Domaille |
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 | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with no set necessary. |
Synopsis | The Gods on Mount Olympus are fed up with modern humanity and wondering how it all went so wrong. |
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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Going Out by Sarah Reilly |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the characters is an adult, but the piece is intended to be played by teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for teenagers. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | A father struggle to understand the confusing pressure of not going out with someone as his son prepares for the school disco. |
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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Goodbye, Again by Molly McCluskey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch/short play. Single simple (restaurant) set - one table. Simple props, although the waiter brings two pasta dishes to the table! |
Synopsis | He thinks he knows what he wants... She knows. |
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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The Gossip by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are adults, intended to be played by children. (Two of the female characters could be switched to male by changing two words.) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple play in rhyming couplets. No specific set requirements. One prop (a wedding cake!) |
Synopsis | Mrs. Grey tries to stop a rumour spreading by telling everyone that it isn't true. The result is that the rumour spreads rapidly, and her daughter's wedding is ruined. |
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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Grandma at the Village Fete by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute comedy monologue. Contains ripeness. |
Synopsis | A humourous monologue about the excitement at this year's village fete, with Grandma's fortune telling, the exploits of Camp Claude and a host of other village characters. |
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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