playS and MuSicalS - Contemporary Drama Service
playS and MuSicalS - Contemporary Drama Service
playS and MuSicalS - Contemporary Drama Service
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Theatre Games <strong>and</strong> Comedy Melodramas<br />
Persuade ®<br />
by NANCY K. KIENZLE<br />
A classroom game for<br />
developing persuasion skills<br />
Complete game with elements for<br />
a class of 30 students. Replayable<br />
components for long-term use.<br />
Boxed game: $15.95<br />
Order #R-G15<br />
The basic unit works wonderfully to develop students’<br />
persuasion skills so needed in our increasingly<br />
competitive society. English <strong>and</strong> speech teachers,<br />
especially, will find this game the perfect means of<br />
introducing the basic elements of persuasion as<br />
related to interpersonal communication. The game<br />
literally plays itself. The teacher need only be a<br />
moderator for post-game discussion. Class is divided into<br />
groups of six students. Each group is given<br />
several decks of Persuade cards. A card from each deck<br />
creates a unique situation for role-playing. Persuasion<br />
effectiveness is rated on a scorecard. Game can be<br />
adapted to any number of rounds for several days’ use.<br />
Successfully tested in classrooms for several years.<br />
Designer Nancy K. Kienzle was selected Outst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
High School Speech Teacher in Ohio.<br />
Bravo!<br />
by ALVIN J. SCHNUPP<br />
A game for improvisational role-players<br />
Complete game book with<br />
reproducible components: $15.95<br />
Order #R-G17<br />
Four categories of components challenge role-players to<br />
create several hundred different dramatic situations.<br />
These role-plays may be used for developing<br />
improvisation skills, values education or simply for the<br />
fun of being spontaneously creative. The game book<br />
provides seventy different units in four categories:<br />
1. Scene Situations, 2. Scene Locations,<br />
3. Character Vocations, 4. Character Traits. There<br />
are no winners or losers in any of the role-play games.<br />
Each scene ends when the situation is resolved, time<br />
runs out or a powerful punch line signals the end. Full<br />
of laughs, surprises <strong>and</strong> insights. Included are 280<br />
reusable cards printed in the game book. Cards may be<br />
reproduced as needed.<br />
Wait ’Til The Sun<br />
Shines Nellie or<br />
So Long,<br />
Snivelheart<br />
by CRAIG SODARO<br />
A one-act comedy melodrama<br />
Cast: 7F, 6M<br />
Age level: Junior High to High School<br />
Playing time: 20 to 30 minutes<br />
Complete playkit with 10 scripts <strong>and</strong><br />
rights to reproduce copies: $20.95<br />
Order #R-P471<br />
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Simon Snivelheart <strong>and</strong> his sidekick, Bungles, scheme<br />
to get the l<strong>and</strong> deed to the Hubbards’ Rest ‘n Peace<br />
Hotel, <strong>and</strong> Nellie Hubbard in the bargain. Unknown to<br />
the owners, the hotel is sitting over a long-lost<br />
goldmine. Heroic Hector, the hero <strong>and</strong> Nellie’s beau,<br />
manages to get the mortgage money on time, but<br />
dastardly deeds thwart the payment. This can be<br />
played to the hilt for laughs.<br />
An<br />
Old-Fashioned<br />
Soap Opera<br />
by PAUL LESLIE<br />
One-act melodrama<br />
in five pun-filled scenes<br />
Cast: 3F, 7M, 2F extras<br />
Age level: Junior High to High School<br />
Playing time: 30 to 40 minutes<br />
Complete playkit with 10 scripts <strong>and</strong><br />
rights to reproduce copies: $19.95<br />
Order #R-P231<br />
Strictly silly stuff for actors who really like to ham it up.<br />
This one is as much fun for the players as it is for the<br />
audience, <strong>and</strong> it’s hard to tell them apart. Everybody<br />
participates. The audience is expected to hiss, groan,<br />
cheer <strong>and</strong> boo. The completely predictable plot is<br />
about how Sudsly Doorite saves Prell Pureheart from a<br />
horrible demise at the h<strong>and</strong>s of Dirty Dan<br />
Dinglethorpe. It’s frothy <strong>and</strong> bubbly, but it’s fun.<br />
Left in the<br />
Wicker Basket,<br />
or Right Under<br />
the Ol’ Boarding<br />
House Steps<br />
by PAUL COLLETTE<br />
<strong>and</strong> ROBERT WRIGHT Royalty play<br />
A melodrama for multiple villains,<br />
heroes <strong>and</strong> heroines (many female roles)<br />
Cast: 11F, 2M, 2 M or F<br />
Playing time: 45 minutes, 1 act<br />
Order #R-R167 Script: $6.00<br />
Order #R-RP67 Royalty: $40/performance<br />
Everyone gets a great melodramatic part in this epic of<br />
comedy <strong>and</strong> confusion. There’s the sweet orphaned<br />
Trueheart Twins, the greedy headmistress Rhonda<br />
Reevil <strong>and</strong> her dastardly daughters, Nasturtium <strong>and</strong><br />
Geranium. The arch villains are Sylvester Snodgrass<br />
<strong>and</strong> his assistant, Sylvia, in search of the missing letter<br />
that tells who is heir to a secret fortune. The struggle of<br />
evil against good climaxes in a crazy event when all the<br />
good guys are tied to the railroad tracks. Lots of sight<br />
gags <strong>and</strong> funny lines. Excellent for a troupe of energetic<br />
thespians.