More than 400 theatre sketches to read for free
La Sketchothèque brings together more than 400 theatre sketches by Jean-Pierre Martinez, available to read in full free of charge.
Comedies, humorous scenes, absurd sketches, dark humour, satire, contemporary theatre… search for a text by number of characters, genre, theme or setting.
Most of the sketches are written for two characters and can be used in particular by amateur theatre companies, drama schools, conservatoires and theatre workshops.
The texts are also available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
2 characters 3 characters 4 characters Absurd Accountant Actor Administration Adultery Airplane Alien Apartment Artist Astronaut At the bar counter At the cinema At the theatre Author Backstage Bits Bank Banker Birth Bistro Boat Bookshop Break-up Building lobby Burlesque Butcher Butcher shop Capitalism Cemetery Child Church Cinema Cleaning lady Clergyman Colleague Communication Company Concert Countryside Couple Creativity Customer Dark humour Dealer Death Detective Devil Divorce Doctor Doctor's office Don’t panic! Dramatic Dramedies Driver Dystopia Education Elderly Encounter Enough is enough! Environment Ethan and Eve Executive Extra Family Fate Film shoot Firefighter Fisherman For Real and for Fun Fortune teller Friend Friendship Funeral Funeral home Gallery Garden Him and Her History Hitman Homeless person Hospital House Identity Illness Immortality Inheritance Interactive Intimate Island Journalist Justice Killer Sketches Knowledge Lawyer Like a fish in the air Loneliness Lost Time Chronicles Love Manager Marriage Media Memoirs of a Suitcase Memory Metatheater Money Monologue Museum Music Musician Neighbour Nicotine Not even dead Notary Notary office Of Animals and Men Office Old age Open Hearts Open Letters Outer space Parenthood Parody Passer-by Patient Petrol station Petrol station attendant Philosophy Police Police officer Police station Politics Pope Postman Poverty President Priest Prostitute Prostitution Publisher Receptionist Religion Researcher Restaurant Retired person Retirement Revenge Road Rocket Romantic Salesperson Satire Science Science fiction Sexuality Shop Shrink Sidewalk Chronicles Sociability Social criticism Spectator Square Stage Briefs Stories To Die For Street Street cleaner Suicide Talent agent Teacher The Rebels Theater Thief Time Train station Travel Travel agency Vacation Vaudeville Verbal comedy Waiter Will Work Young person