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Blind Date – The Aftermath – 10 minute comedy: when the date’s over, is it?

10 minute comedy

BLIND DATE – THE AFTERMATH – 10 MINUTE COMEDY. WHEN THE DATE’S OVER, IS IT?

Dr Stanley and Alice Adler have been on a blind date with each other and have returned to their respective apartments. Now, it is true that people who have been single for a while tend to have relatively high standards in the people they date. Film star looks and a sparkling personality to match wouldn’t go amiss at all in this 10 minute comedy!

After the initial feeling that perhaps the person they just dated wasn’t really the film star they had hoped for, and having been brought down to a rather ordinary earth with a bump, both Alice and Stanley decide that, actually, a second date wouldn’t be so bad. Pity that Alice ignored the phone when it rang earlier…

Read the prequel to this play – Blind Date! by Tanis Galik

PRODUCTION HISTORY AND AWARDS

Winner of 2012 PATV Award, New York, NY
Winner of the 2012 Playwright’s Festival, Tehachapi, CA
The Stagedoor Theatre Company, Kerikeri, New Zealand – 2020
Gordon College, MA, USA – 2020
Vanilla Box Productions, MA, USA – 2021
Creative Theatre Group, Inc., NY, USA – 2021

Cresswind Players, SC, USA – 2022
Short and Sweet Festival, Dubai, UAE- 2023

Author: Tanis Galik

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Type: 10 minute comedy play scripts

Cast: 1M, 1F

Ages of the actors: Both thirties up (or older) adults

Suitable for: All ages to watch

Length: Ten minutes

Set: The stage is divided into two bedrooms—-one feminine, one masculine. The rooms are separated by an imaginary wall which includes a full-length mirror (empty of glass) that both characters can use simultaneously. The lady’s boudoir has a dressing table with a large mirror (empty of glass) that has its back to the audience so they can watch during her evening ritual. There is a smaller, freestanding make-up mirror on the tabletop. The man’s room contains a dresser and a sink with similar mirrors. Both rooms are dark with light shining from the outer room when the bedroom door is opened.

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – a fun script with simple dialogue. It’s all about the angst!

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Copyright © May 2019 Tanis Galik and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Others like it:

A Blind Date – two misfits meet up for a blind date!
Static – short female monologue set at a table on a blind date
This seat’s taken – one act comedy about OCD

A love – Never Forgotten – humorous drama for mature actors

drama for mature actors

A LOVE – NEVER FORGOTTEN – HUMOROUS  DRAMA FOR MATURE ACTORS

Just an old folks’ home? No. This community is more than that. It houses Rose, Alice, her husband Gordon, Ted and Jill. In this one act dramedy, it is a retirement village for mature and independent
individuals, thank you very much.

Of course it makes sense then that the most, ahem, senior ones have the deepest secrets hidden from those who ought to know them best and know truths that would shock the ones who’ve ‘seen it all’. Enter Ives (literally) whose visits to the home are to view it with the intention of perhaps moving in soon. His latest visit unravels Alice’s panic at a ghost from Christmas past. When Ives and Alice do ultimately face each other, Alice is presented with the face of a ghost alright… one that sweet, unassuming, Rose may know everything about in this humorous drama for mature actors.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Players in Cheshire, UK – 2018

 Other plays – The Coming of Jed Crest – British one act play by Peter Pitt. 

Author: Peter Pitt

Genre: Dramedy, humorous drama for mature actors

Type: One act play

Cast: 4F 3M

Ages of the actors: All above sixty except the manager, Sharon who can be younger

Length: Thirty minutes

Suitable for: All ages, but suited especially to senior groups who enjoy play reading

Set: The residents lounge in a new block of retirement apartments.

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – showing a variety of emotions

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Copyright © September 2016 Peter Pitt and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other plays for mature actors that you might enjoy:

The Duel – ten minute one act comedy for 2M
Well I never – comedy sketch for two to three mature F actors
Read about it – what happens when you strike up a conversation at a bus stop?

You’re never too old – three act comedy script

three act comedy script

YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD – THREE ACT COMEDY SCRIPT

In this witty three act comedy script, two aging brothers are reunited after a sixteen year old argument only to pick up on their sibling rivalry where it left off.

Seventy year old Max Stuart has sold the family business, an antique store in New York, and has moved to the Sunshine State with his wife of fifty-one years, Florence. Recovering from a heart attack has made Max feel old and useless, which has made him bitter and unforgiving.

As Florence tries to nurse him back to good health, Barney, Max’s fraternal twin brother, shows up sixteen million dollars richer, with a twenty-three year old bride and a business opportunity for Max.

Barney, who has always been able to talk Max into anything, convinces Max to run one of Barney’s video stores, which Barney has purchased with his millions. Max ends up humiliated when he gets talked into dressing up in a Donald Duck costume to promote some new Disney videos. This causes old hostilities to surface and the brothers are at each other again.

Barney’s problems escalate when Trixie, his bride, announces that she is pregnant. This sends Barney to the hospital in what appears to be a heart attack of his own.

Florence has been running interference throughout this whole episode and manages to get Max and Barney alone so they can work things out, once and for all. After more sibling rivalry, they both realize that brothers should be like best friends and that there is nothing more precious than family.

“You’re Never Too Old” recently received a very successful run at the Cultural Park Theater in Cape Coral, Florida.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Bell Tower theatre, IA, USA – 2017
Plantation Theatrical Group, FL, USA – 2023

Author: Carl Megill

Genre: Three act comedy plays

Type:
Three act plays

Cast: 2M 2F

Ages of the actors: 3 in their fifties/sixties, one in her twenties/thirties

Length: 1.5- 2 hours

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The kitchen is to the right. The counter faces the audience. There is a kitchen table
and four chairs stage right. The remainder of the stage is dedicated to the living room. A door leading to the outside is on the left wall. There’s a staircase leading upstairs upstage left. The
living room is inconsistently decorated with a colonial piece here, a modern piece there, etc.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – a witty play that relies on characterization

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Copyright © June 2015 Carl Megill and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other three act comedies that we stock:

Let’s get rid of the plump people – Greek satire script
Guilty party – whodunit three act farce
Ad Hoc – three act comedy set in an advertising agency

Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon – ten minute comedy scripts

ten minute comedy scripts

Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon – ten minute comedy scripts

In this short comedy sketch, Mister Solomon is busy enjoying his tea and his Mozart in his upstairs apartment, when he is interrupted by Mrs Castle, who comes (bearing slightly dry cake) to make him a proposition that he won’t forget!

Other plays by Jean Blasiar.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: Ten minute comedy scripts

Type: Comedy sketch, comedy skit

Cast: Two actors, 1M 1F

Ages of the actors: 50’s up.  Script for older actors

Length: Ten minutes

Suitable for: All ages

Set: A living room of a single older man with two chairs, a table, stereo and a cabinet

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – a gently funny script

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Cost is $7.50 for this digital script

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries regarding Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon

Copyright © December 2014 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? More ten minute comedies in stock:

Road rage – tongue in cheek short comedy play
God’s visit – when God visits Bob in his apartment
Two cats, no dogs – award winning ten minute comedy