A Fool's Errand Backfired

 

A Fool's Errand

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Wrote this short script for a competition. Something that could be used either as audio play or filmed.

I'll be writing another version of this script, from the opposite angle.

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LOGINE:

Have you ever wondered what it's like to order non-existent objects?

CAST:

Two

LENGTH:

Three Pages

Thought Police

 

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Wrote this short script for a competition. Something that could be used either as audio play or filmed.

Also, this was based on a true story.

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LOGINE:

Can the police arrest you for your thoughts?

CAST:

Two

LENGTH:

Two Pages

 Screw The World

LOGINE:

Mark and Lizzy have been prevented from going on their first date by COVID19. They hatch a plan to overcome the government's restrictions.

CAST:

Two

LENGTH:

Five Pages

Annoyed

Logline:

Staying inside her house due to a virus pandemic has driven Abbey crazy as if she's locked up.  The smallest of things sets her off.  Which makes her husband Harvey feel like he's walking on egg shells.

Cast:

2

Length:

Two pages.

Inappropriate: Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Episode 2

Logline:

A taxi driver asks inappropriate questions to his passenger.  Whilst also highlighting his poor driving ability.

Cast: 

Two

Length:

Four Pages

Location:

Inside a car/taxi.

Work - Life - Balance

Logline:

Ralph returns home to find his children are gone and his wife Carol has packed her bags.  She's ready to leave her husband for a better life.  But Ralph doesn't accept their relationship has ended and is prepared to fight for their marriage.

Cast:

Two (Male & Female)

Length:

Five Pages

Paranoid In The Twilight Zone

Logline:

Michael Jackson thinks somebody's watching him, and goes and sees his psychiatrist Doctor Frasier Crane to get to the root problem.

(N.B. Even though this is a bit of fun.  The character names can be changed.)

Cast:

Two

Length:

Four Pages

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Low Budget, One scene / Psychiatry Office

Poison Pen (Radio Sketch)

Logline:

Dick wants to send a message to someone he hates.  But struggles to get anywhere with the florist.  Who he eventually hates as well.

Cast: TWO

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This is a comedy sketch I've created for BBC Radio.  Hopefully this'll go down well.

Throw Away Comment

Logline:

Victoria takes a remark made by her husband John as fact and buys a gadget for his birthday.

Length ~ Three Pages

Cast 2

Pa$$word

Logline:

Sandra has asked her daughter help her get onto the internet and register on a social network.

Length ~ Three Pages

Cast 2

Angel

Logline:

Can Phil really save Michael from a life of drugs?

Length ~ Eleven Pages

Cast 2

Dreams

Logline:

Let Dreams make dreams come true for you!

Length ~ Two Pages

Cast 2

Abort

Logline:

A practice drill on a spaceship couldn't go wrong, now could it?

Length ~ Four Pages

Cast 2

Companions

Logline:

Andy's young and bored. There's nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no one to speak to, except Annabel. Is she enough to keep Andy from letting his mind wonder?

Length ~ Seven Pages

Cast 2