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| The Greatest Invention In History by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Scientist is a gender-neutral description. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch, no set, just a few props. (For those who don't have a matter transporter handy, teleportaion/materialisation may be represented by a sound effect.) |
| Synopsis | A scientist about to reveal his world-changing invention has a number of unexpected interrupting visitors. |
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| The Grilling by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch for two people and a pub table. |
| Synopsis | Flamboyant actor Gregory Walton sits in a pub hoping to be recognised by fans. He is approached by Ms Price, but discovers she is no fan when she starts to interrogate him about his past activities. |
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| Guide to Survival by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun prose monologue with the audience addressed as a tour group. No set required - bare stage or even front-of-curtain.. |
| Synopsis | Tour guide Leonard is showing a group of people around a stately home - but complications in his love life turn out to be far more intriguing than the tour itself. And Leonard's way of dealing with his romantic dilemma may be a trifle risky. |
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| Hack by Andy Haynes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play, sending-up the pretentions of a writer and his agent. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Harold has written another play, just in time for a meeting with his agent Morty, who's dropped round to read him the reviews of his last play. It's not good news, but is Harold a man to be defeated by bad reviews? Maybe. |
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| Halloween Party Time by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ghost story set in a High School gym. Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Nick's and Pat's preparations for the High School Halloween party are disturbed by a couple of strangers. |
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| The Hang-Up by Helen Gent |
| 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 | A very short sketch which is simple, funny and easy to produce. |
| Synopsis | A couple are at the end of a long phone call, but she has more trouble disconnecting than he does. |
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| The Haunting of Hardup Hall by David Lovesy & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are all adults, but could easily be played by kids. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short humorous ghost story told in verse |
| Synopsis | Lord and Lady Hardup are at their wits end. Their mansion is being haunted by a fearsome spook and soon they will be forced to flee! Mystic Maureen, psychic extraordinaire is called to save them from the spirits! |
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| Heading Home by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally gendered, they are, when all's said and done, two pigeons and a cat! |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch. The author suggests it could be performed as a radio play so that the anthropomorphic twist is not revealed until the right moment, but it could be staged. No set or props required, though if it is staged, costumes would be a good idea! |
| Synopsis | A pair of homing pigeons encounter difficulties finding their way home.
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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| Health and Safety by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters - a schoolmaster and three boys - are written male, but need not be. They also need not be played by actors of appropriate age - it is, after all, a send-up. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set and no props - which is really the point of the sketch! |
| Synopsis | A cautious schoolmaster is keeping the Health and Safety bods happy by holding cricket practice with not bat, no ball and no netting. And all this practice is for the match next Saturday, where just to be extra safe, there'll be no opposing team...
It is, of course, Health and Safety gone mad. |
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| The Health and Safety Inspector by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Steve Clark.) |
| Synopsis | The troops manning a dug-out in the front line receive a visit from the Brigade Health and Safety inspector! |
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