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Fairy Tale Sketches/ Radio Plays/Games Playing time: About 20 minutes Cast: Up to 20 players (mixed) Age level: All ages MER318 $30.95 Complete playkit with 14 scripts and rights to reproduce copies Mentone Educational Centre 215 Chesterville Road Moorabbin Victoria 3189 Playing time: About 5 minutes each Cast: 4 to 6 each plus 1 nonspeaking part Age level: Junior High, High School MER259 $30.95 Complete playkit with 8 scripts Little Red Riding Hood A Fairy-tale Spoof for Children’s Theatre By Kirk Buis This takeoff, based loosely on the original story, starts off on the wrong foot, and never seems to get it all together, with hilarious results. First, the wolf is a scaredy-cat and has to be replaced with an Irish Setter. The stagehand forgets to build Grandma’s house and has to improvise. When Red knocks on the door, dwarves answer. Snow White appears to tell her the theatre’s closing and Grandma’s having lunch with the wolf offstage. Fairy Tales Go to Court By Steve and Lora Dingledine Updated fairy tale characters face Judge Lipner with hilarious, unexpected results. Minimum costumes and/or props are needed for each characterization. Skits Include › The Blind Spot – Farmer’s Wife Sues Three Skateboarding Blind Mice › The Case of the Pilfered Pepper – President of Pepper Plant Sues Peter Piper for Pilferage › A Sticky Case of Trauma – Miss Muffet Sues Spider › Mary’s Lost Little Lamb – Mary’s Lamb Damages School Property › The Case of the Broken Egg – Humpty Dumpty Sues the King’s Men for Negligence Playing time: 7-10 minutes each Cast: 5-8 players (mixed) Age level: Junior High, High School MER255 $30.95 Complete playkit with 9 scripts and rights to reproduce copies Playing time: About 10 minutes each Cast: up to 8 players, mixed Age level: Junior High, High School MER063 $30.95 Complete playkit with 9 scripts Fractured Fairy Tales Three Comedy/Parody Plays By Daron Scott McFarland These medium length comedies are perfect for classroom and contest performance. Fairy tale personages are taken out of character and context with hilarious results. Includes: The Pretender Hen, The Wolf in Grandma’s House, The Case of the Missing Porridge. You’ll roar with laughter at these uniquely silly plays. Minimum costumes and/or props required. Excellent for variety shows. Comedy Plays for Taping II Six Condensed Comedy Satires for Taping By Donna Roberts Use these plays for taping, broadcast or simply as rehearsal scripts. The lead characters are well-known, but you make them what you want. Satires include › James Bend (Agent 009) › Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hide › The Jungle Queen › Rumbelstilskin › To Tame a Shrew › Newscast Monolog Playing time: 45 min to 1 hour Cast: 22M, 10W, 13 optional Age level: Junior High, High School MER141 $29.95 Complete playkit with 10 scripts and rights to reproduce copies Playing time: About 45 minutes Cast: 15M, 10W, 13 optional Age level: Junior High, High School, College MER143 $29.95 Complete playkit with 10 scripts and rights to reproduce copies Radio Plays for Taping I A Packet of Ten Comedy Scripts for All-class use as a Recording Project By Stuart L. Sheeley Here is a fun way to teach both oral and aural skills to students. The innovative teacher will find these scripts a wonderful way to make students aware of diction, intonation, pace of delivery, oral emphasis, mood and the significance of punctuation signals. Some of the Scripts › Sign-on, Sign-off › Gravy Stain Dog Food › Scare Theatre › Gun’s Fire › A Pause for Poetry › All the Doctors of Our Lives › Soldier’s Coffee MER132 $23.95 Complete game with elements for a class of 30 students. Replayable components for long-term use. Persuade® A Classroom Game for Developing Persuasion Skills By Nancy K. Kienzle The basic unit works wonderfully to develop students’ persuasion skills so needed in our increasingly competitive society. English and Speech teachers, especially, will find this game the perfect means of introducing the basic elements of persuasion as related to interpersonal communication. The game literally plays itself. The teacher need only be a moderator for post-game discussion. Class is divided into groups of six students. Each group is given several decks of Persuade cards. A card from each deck creates a unique situation for role-playing. Persuasion effectiveness is rated on a scorecard. Game can be adapted to any number of rounds for several days’ use. Successfully tested in classrooms for several years. Designer Nancy K. Kienzle was selected Outstanding High School Speech Teacher in Ohio. Radio Plays for Taping III Another Packet of Ten Very Funny Radio-style Scripts By Stuart L. Sheeley These clever satirical take-offs on the various types of old-fashioned radio shows give as many students as you like a chance to participate. Scripts Include › Sugar Babes Breakfast Treat › Mundaroes Oil › The Ledge of Morning › That’s Unbelievable! › Fly-By-Night Records › Dehydrated Opera › Jimmy Search › Wives of the Great › Lummox Bib Overall › Radio Station Signon and Sign-off MER347 Elementary School Squirms MER212 Junior High School Squirms MER213 High School Squirms Each Squirm game: $21.95 Can of Squirms® The Role-playing Game Real-life situation-dilemmas related to moral and ethical values in a fun format so players say what they feel and feel what they say. Encourages spontaneous expression and values clarification. Leader guide, suggestions for variations and 100 discussion questions are included with 20 Squirms and game materials. Perhaps the most popular discussion-starter resource available today. More than 100,000 games at all age levels are now in use in schools, colleges, clinics, churches and in homes. 28 Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% Check our website for latest releases and pricing
Phone (03) 9553 3234 Fax (03) 9553 4562 Email sales@mentone-educational.com.au Web www.mentone-educational.com.au Playing time: 40 minutes Cast: 5W, 5M, 1 off-stage voice Age level: Junior High, High School, College MER220 $33.95 Complete playkit with 11 scripts Whodunits & Mysteries Playing time: 40 minutes Cast 5W, 5M Age level: Junior High, High School, College MER221 $33.95 Complete playkit with 11 scripts And Then There Was One Murder, Mayhem and Lots of Silliness By Michael Druce This take-off from Agatha Christie’s famous stage mysteries is all comedy, filled with hilarious sight gags and dialogue. Ten people are brought together at the Reef mansion on a tiny island. Each has received a mysterious invitation to a weekend party. The host is missing, but he has left an ominous tape that bodes evil for the guests. One by one, they die in humorous ways, each suspecting the others. Finally, only one remains, having shot who she believes is the killer. Then each murdered guest begins to reappear, having faked their own deaths. Easy to do costumes and staging. And Then There Was One, Too More Murder, Mayhem and Silliness By Michael Druce A continuation of our popular Agatha Christie take-off comedy, filled with more hilarious sight gags and dialogue. The same ten people are brought together again under false pretences. This time it’s at the House on Cable Car Cliff for a masquerade party. When the masks are removed, they find they’ve been reunited with the Reef mansion crowd. Somebody has lied to them. Again, they all accuse each other. One by one, they die in even more humorous ways, the killer still a mystery. Finally only the butler and maid are left having committed the perfect crime. But there’s a twist, followed by the reappearance of the cast. Cast: 6W, 5M, adjustable Age level: High School, College Playing time: 45 minutes MER234 $33.95 Complete playkit with 12 scripts Playing time: About 20 minutes Cast: 3W, 3M Age level: Junior High, High School, College MER341 $30.95 Complete playkit with 7 scripts Dinner at Eight, Dead by Nine A Fundraiser “Whodunit” Comedy Mystery By Michael Druce The Theatre Guild gathers to honour Eleanor Van Heusen for twenty years of meritorious service to the theatre community by hosting a mystery dinner presentation in her name. But before the show even begins the guest of honour falls face first into her spaghetti - dead! To add to the hilarity, her face falls into the spaghetti two more times. Eleanor wasn’t loved by all; in fact all the guests at the main table - and even the chef - have reasons of their own to kill her. They all reveal their motives and murder plans, but all claim innocence. Facts support their stories, so it’s left to the audience to deduce “whodunit.” When revealed, the answer seems obvious, but no one is likely to guess it correctly. Easy to stage. A Murdered Mystery A Comedy Mystery Spoof By Karl Garner Steve Walters has been murdered! Was it his ex-fiancée? His current fiancée? His business partner? The butler? The narrator? This clever comedy mystery begins and ends with murder on a dark stage. It’s a play within a play. The actors are as jealous, petty, and conceited as the characters they play. They slip in and out of character, arguing over who’s the most talented. Finally, they all pull guns on each other. The lights go out and the opening scene is replayed for a surprise twist ending. Very funny dialogue and situations. Easy to stage with only one set. Playing time: 30 minutes Cast: 3W, 3M Age level: Junior High, High School, College MER021 $30.95 Complete playkit with 7 scripts Playing time: 10 to 15 minutes each Cast: 7 to 10 players each play Age level: Junior High, High School, College MER189 $30.95 Complete playkit with 11 scripts Death of a Dead Guy A Silly Mystery Farce By William L. Bowman, Jr. Collette, the ditzy but sneaky maid, finds Reginald Bascombe III at his desk with a knife in his back, dead. Or is he? Mrs. Bascombe is totally upper class nonchalant. Collette tidies up for the authorities, feather dusting the body. But when the butler tries to call the police, the phone is dead. By coincidence, the loud-mouthed bumbling private eye Peter Cannon shows up. He accuses everyone of the crime with absurd scenarios. Finally, he decides that Reggie was playing mumblety-peg and offed himself by accident. Throughout the play, when the cast isn’t looking “the corpse” looks up with a variety of silly expressions. He tops it all with the last word. Wonderfully witty with lots of action. Easy to stage. Playing time: 10-15 minutes each Cast: Up to 4W, 5M each skit, doubling possible Age level: Junior High, High School MER222 $30.95 Complete playkit with 9 scripts and one year of unlimited performances Sherlock Holmes Comedy Trilogy A Packet of Mystery Satires By Dick Charlton These scripts have been repeat winners in forensic competitions – and they’ve been used at the state and national competitions of the National Forensic League in the humorous interpretation division. Clever dialogue makes them sparkle. Scripts Include › The Affair Of Lady Fairfax – That Devil Moriarity Tries To Win The Hand Of The Lovely Lady Fairfax › The Venus Figurine – A Desperate Message From A Toilet Roll Factory Leads Holmes And Watson Through A Swift-moving Mystery Twodunit Two Short Comedy Mysteries By Susan Stepp Crazy action and clever dialogue in these two whodunit parodies. Include › Murder at Brantley Manor – Sir Brantley is found poisoned in the greenhouse. Who did it? The Butler? The Maid? The Reverend? The crime is solved with a game of charades and a series of crazy struggles. But the ending is still a surprise. › Diamonds in the Rough – A group of campers knows one of them is an armed jewel thief. Each backpack is examined with hilarious results until the jewels and the thief are revealed in the end. Great classroom material, easy to stage. Playing time: 3 to 10 minutes each Age level: Junior High, High School MER164 $29.95 Complete story kit with 9 scripts Spooky Ghost Stories A Collection of Nine Ghost Stories for Storytelling Here’s a collection of read-aloud tales guaranteed to produce goose flesh and spine tingles. Ghostly images, piercing screams and suspense as things seem to go bump in the night. A packet of nine tales written for storytelling – for a campfire setting – and for youngsters. All are easily memorized and memory-structured. Sample Stories › The Ghost of Lake Superior › Capture of the Werewolves › The Dead Man’s Hand › A True Story of Psychic Phenomena www.mentone-educational.com.au Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% 29
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