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Phone (03) 9553 3234 Fax (03) 9553 4562<br />

Email sales@mentone-educational.com.au<br />

Web www.mentone-educational.com.au<br />

Playing time:<br />

3-5 minutes each<br />

Cast:<br />

3-30 players (mixed)<br />

Age level:<br />

Junior High, High School<br />

MER049 $29.95<br />

Complete playkit with 7 scripts and rights to reproduce copies<br />

Comedy Revues & Skits/<br />

Melodramas<br />

Playing time: 1 to 3 minutes each<br />

Cast: Varies, 1 to 5 players, 42 parts<br />

Age level: Junior High, High School, College<br />

MER001 $29.95<br />

Complete playkit with 5 scripts<br />

CDS Skit Kit II<br />

By Peg Kehret<br />

These fifteen delightfully wacky skits require little or no rehearsal – no stage – and only<br />

simple props. Acting experience is not required.<br />

Skits Include<br />

› Now a Word from Our Sponsor<br />

› High School Awards Night<br />

› Parent’s Night Open House<br />

› The Starving Poet<br />

› The Invisible Dog Show<br />

› Advertising Pays<br />

20 TV Commercial Comedy Sketches<br />

Humorous Satires of TV Commercials<br />

By Christina Hamlett<br />

Here are twenty short, outrageously funny pitches for unbelievably absurd products. Together<br />

they make a great, fast-paced comedy show and can be used as stage fillers or videotaped<br />

for TV production classes. Most have small casts of one or two, with minimal props and<br />

sets. Excellent for contest or classroom material.<br />

Commercials include<br />

› Oil of Calais<br />

› Hog Wild<br />

Construction<br />

› Alice’s Wonderland<br />

Travel<br />

› The National<br />

Gossiper<br />

Playing time:<br />

About 30 minutes<br />

Cast:<br />

5W, 4M<br />

Age level:<br />

Middle Grade to High School<br />

MER110 $30.95<br />

Complete playkit with 10 scripts<br />

Cast: 2 players each, up to 12<br />

Age level:<br />

Junior High, High School<br />

Playing time:<br />

5 minutes each<br />

MER380 $30.95<br />

Complete playkit with 12 scripts<br />

The Survival of the Fittest Show<br />

An outrageous parody of TV’s “reality” survivor shows<br />

By Robert Mauro<br />

At Camp Eat-A-Dead-Rat in Australia four tribes compete for a cash prize and medical<br />

coverage. Show host Rancid Artichoke leads the teams of weirdo contestants through easilystaged,<br />

death-defying challenges on a death-cycle stationary bike, a tussle in a sand pit, a<br />

tangled badminton game and the icy water survivor torture inside a plastic kiddie pool. U.S.<br />

Marine Corps aerobic instructor Melba, and butterfly collector Phil of the Wombat Tribe are<br />

the first to go, and high society snobs Biff and Donna of the Lizard Tribe are the last to be<br />

eliminated - they drown in the kiddie pool. The emcee takes off with the prize money. Silly<br />

stuff but a great parody of TV’s latest madness. Laugh lines for every performer.<br />

Playing time:<br />

About 5 minutes each<br />

Cast:<br />

4 players each script<br />

Age level:<br />

Junior High, High School, College<br />

MER283 $29.95<br />

Complete playkit with 5 scripts<br />

Two-character Scenes for Young Women<br />

Six Short Comedy Dialogs for Student Actresses<br />

By Deborah Karczewski<br />

Unlike typical scene excerpts, these short plays work as well on stage as in the classroom.<br />

Real-life comic teen situations and dialogue make for a wonderfully witty show.<br />

Scenes Include<br />

› The Mirror – Amanda Boosts Julies’ Self-image Before A Blind Date<br />

› Detention – Mischievous Strangers Become Friends to Play Tricks on a Snoozing<br />

Teacher<br />

› Snowbound – Krista’s Annoying Study Partner Shows Up In A Blizzard And Can’t Leave<br />

› Clowns – Girls Go Out On A Ledge To Spy At (And Get Seen By) Sunbathing Guys<br />

Cast:<br />

3-7 players each<br />

Age level:<br />

Junior High, High School<br />

Playing time:<br />

3-8 minutes each<br />

MER162 $30.95<br />

Complete playkit with 8 scripts<br />

Do-it-yourself TV Scripts<br />

Produce Your Own TV Mini-mystery Series<br />

By Sigmund Stoler<br />

Nationally known TV-mystery script writer Sigmund Stoler has written four easy-to-produce<br />

mini-mystery scripts for student actors, cameramen and “TV shooting crew”. Each script<br />

can be “filmed” with a camcorder or may be used in a school TV workshop. Each script<br />

includes video instructions.<br />

Scripts Include<br />

› The Visitor – Parents depart for Italy leaving Aunt Pauline to care for teens –<br />

but is she really Aunt Pauline!<br />

› Don’t Put It in Writing – A teacher is found dead. Who did it and why?<br />

Playing time:<br />

20 to 30 minutes<br />

Cast:<br />

7W, 6M<br />

Age level:<br />

Junior High, High School<br />

MER291 $30.95<br />

Complete playkit with 14 scripts<br />

Snapshots<br />

A Variety Show of Teen Life<br />

By Tamara Tudor<br />

A comedy/drama revue from teenage slices of life in seven short sketches. These sketches<br />

may be used individually or together.<br />

Sketches Include<br />

› Dear Diary<br />

› The Rumour Mill,<br />

› What Worries Me Most<br />

› Her First Dance<br />

› The Tall Girl.<br />

Playing time:<br />

30 to 40 minutes<br />

Cast:<br />

7M, 3W, 2W extras<br />

Age level:<br />

High School<br />

MER292 $29.95<br />

Complete playkit with 11 scripts<br />

Wait ’til The Sun Shines Nellie, or So Long,<br />

Snivelheart<br />

A One-act Comedy Melodrama<br />

By Craig Sodaro<br />

Simon Snivelheart and his sidekick, Bungles, scheme to get the land deed to the Hubbards’<br />

Rest ’n Peace Hotel, and Nellie Hubbard in the bargain. Unknown to the owners, the hotel<br />

is sitting over a long-lost goldmine. Heroic Hector, the hero and Nellie’s beau, manages<br />

to get the mortgage money on time, but dastardly deeds thwart the payment. This can be<br />

played to the hilt for laughs.<br />

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An Old-fashioned Soap Opera<br />

A one act melodrama in five pun-filled scenes<br />

By Paul Leslie<br />

Strictly silly stuff for actors who really like to ham it up. Everybody participates. The audience<br />

is expected to hiss, groan, cheer and boo. The completely predictable plot is about how<br />

Sudsly Doorite saves Prell Pureheart from a horrible demise at the hands of Dirty Dan<br />

Dinglethorpe.<br />

Sample Characters<br />

› Prell Pureheart and Sudsly Doorite – The Heroes<br />

› Dirty Dan Dinglethorpe – The Wicked Guy<br />

› Borax Karlof – The Semi-heroic Janitor<br />

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