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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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