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Professional Tips for the Amateur Stage
Richard James knows the stage as an actor, as a director and as a playrwright.
Here he brings his wisdom and experience to bear with practical tips for actors
and directors.
The directors tips go from page to stage - from choosing a play and choosing a
cast right through the rehearsal process.
For the actor, the journey goes from auditions to opening night, including
sections on stagecraft, rehearsals and approach to the text.
The booklet is
available here as a paper copy (in black and white)
for just £6.50 (plus postage and packing).
About the Author:
Richard James is an actor, trained at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school, most well known for his numerous television appearances in such shows as 'Mysti', ‘Jinx’ and 'My Parents Are Aliens' and films including (perhaps appropriately) 'A Bunch of Amateurs'. He also played series regular, Officer Orrin, in Gerry Anderson’s 90s science fiction cop series, ‘Space Precinct’.
On stage, Richard has toured the UK in a theatre production of the cult tv show, 'Thunderbirds', as well as playing parts at the Derby Playhouse, Stoke's New Vic Theatre and the title role in his own play, 'The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes', at the Swan Theatre, Wycombe.
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Also available as an eBook
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The DAFTA Awards
(Dramatic Awards for the Theatrically Afflicted)
A set of award certificates to commemorate personal contributions to your show!
The certificates come as a pack of 15, downloadable as a .pdf file, with customisation
fields for your show, the name of your society and, of course, the name of the award
winner!
Fourteen pre-set awards plus one customisable certificate so you can add awards specific
to your show.
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NEW! from
Multi Omni Telebubble Home Products
Amazing Space-Age Miracles right here on earth!
George Douglas Lee's hilarious spoof of hard-sell shopping channel commercial
marketing,
a CD packed with
hilarious over-the-top sales pitches for the most unlikely products:-
1. New from Multi Omni (the intro track -
listen to it here!)
2. Cavity Wipes
3. Eterno - The Miracle Elixir
4. Home Transplant Kit
5. The Portable Shrub
6. Green Therapy
7 Alpha Prostate Power
8 Forumla 25 Memory Miracle
9 Grow a Boyfriend
10 Home Cheese Kit
11 Mineral Air
12 Roach Blitzer
13 The Blubberizer
14 KOMA and Acquisitions Anonymous
15 Instant Platform & Buzz in a Bag
16 Hormelman Meat Products
17 Colobrite Comfortable Colon Cleanser
Caution! This product contains humor!
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You've seen the cover,
now hear the trailer!
Then
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Four and Twenty Adverts!
Want to liven up your foyer music?
Looking for something just a little bit different to play during your interval?
This audio CD holds a total of 17 daft 'radio' adverts for a wide range of fictional fairytale / pantomime products and services and 7 silly announcements to your audience (plus a bonus track promoting the next season's fairyland TV schedule).
A number of the adverts featured are radio version of the spoof panto advert images (see above) that can be used in your show programme.
Created by TLC Creative with Sound-Board Studios.
Supplied in CD case with printed cover.
Tracks include:
- Panto Direct 1 - Injury compensation service.
- Panto Direct 2 - Injury compensation service.
- Mother Goose Used Transport Emporium – Second hand magic carpets, and pumpkin coaches
- Fairy Godfather services - Evil plans
thwarted again? Even the odds!
- Beanstalk - A leguminous vegetable chat
line.
- Heroes R Us - Kingdoms saved, villains
vanquished!
- Grimm Brothers Finance and Loans - The perfect way to manage your debt worries.
- Three Pigs Construction services - Saving
your bacon!
- Beanscene - Another leguminous vegetable chat line.
- Stalkaway - Clear your garden of unwanted greenery.
- Al’s Cow barn – The best bargain price bovine offers.
- Germinator 4 - The rise of the beans!
- Robin Hood recruitment - Only the merriest men accepted.
- Goldiloctite - The perfect hair product.
- Magic Spinning wheels – A public information announcement.
- Happily ever after therapy - Psychotherapy for fairyland people.
- Sinbad the Sailor cruises - A choice of seven delightful destinations.
- Take your seats and turn off your mobiles #1
- Take your seats and turn off your mobiles #2
Interval announcements
- End of show / Exit announcement #1
- End of show / Exit announcement #2
- End of show / Exit announcement #3
- End of show / Exit announcement #4
- Bonus Track! Pig Brother House / Dame Academy TV ad - What’s on next season!
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You don't believe what you're reading? Then listen
to the trailer
- and you won't believe your ears either!
And, when you've done that...
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And as if
Four and Twenty wasn't enough...
With the continued success of the first Audio CD, and
back by popular demand, we bring you...
The Greatest
Four and Twenty
Advertisements
CD in the Kingdom...
Ever!
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a second compilation of spoof adverts for fictional services and products inspired by Fairytale and Pantomime. The perfect way to add a bit of fun it your foyer / interval. This audio CD holds a total of 19 silly 'radio' adverts and 5 'tongue-in-cheek' announcements to your audience!
Created by TLC Creative with Sound-Board Studios. Supplied in CD case with printed cover.
Tracks include:
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3 Bears Security Services - An end to breaking and entering and porridge theft.
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Sorcerer Cleaning gel - Shazam and the dirt is gone!
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Tart Safe - Store your cakes away from any thieving Knave.
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Gardening Services.
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M&S (Malevolent and Suspicious) Poisoned Products.
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Baa Baa Black Sheep's wool sale.
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The Spratkins Diet.
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Perfect Princesses - A royal match making service.
- See-through Tailors - As endorsed by his highness the Emperor!
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Cobblers Estate Agents - Meeting your footwear housing needs.
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Panto Direct Groceries - Home delivery supplies for your larder.
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Tree-Bay - Make some cash and sell unwanted Merry Men clutter.
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The Witless protection scheme - For has-been comedy link men!
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ID theft warning - A public information announcement.
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The House of Charming - Perfumery products.
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EFS - The enchanted furniture store: Everything must go!
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Magic Mirrors - The SAT NAV model which will guide you to the fairest in the land!
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Rambo-stiltskin - A Film trailer.
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Army Recruitment - Have you got what it takes to join the Kings Men?
Foyer / Audience Announcements
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'Please turn off your mobile phones'
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'No cameras please!'
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'Remember to cheer the goodies and boo the villains'
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'There is now an interval'
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'The show is over - please go home!'
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To decide whether or not this will help you to live happily
ever after, listen to the trailer.
And if you're not satisfied with the trailer, you can listen to the whole CD with
only the best
bits cut out, leaving just...
some random words
And, when you've listened to that...
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the theatre foyer, we bring you a third compilation of silly adverts for Fairytale and pantomime services and products. This audio CD holds a total of 17 spoof ‘radio’ adverts and 7 ‘tongue in cheek’ announcements to your audience!
Four and Twenty Advertisement – The Third and Youngest
*
Tracks include:
- Dragons Den – Pitch your business ideas to the Dragons.
- Dame Aid – Give all you can to help destitute Dames.
- iGlass – The latest innovation from Poisoned Apple.
- Sorcerers Apprentice – Who’ll be hired?
- We buy any cow.com – The website for bovine sales.
- Harry Wizard – A magical movie coming soon.
- Magic Mirrors – Buy one and get one free.
- Happy Ever After – A Grimm Bothers Finance insurance scheme.
- Percinnamon Construction – Gingerbread houses.
- Strictly Come Lancing – The contest for B list celebrity Knights.
- Leprechaun bank – The bank at the end of the rainbow.
- Golden Hair – how to solve that ‘how to climb a tower’ problem.
- Oil of Oily – Cosmetics by Ponds.
- Pantomime Animal Hospital – Caring for poorly panto pets.
- Cash for Golden Eggs – Get hard cash fast.
- Which Witch – How to choose the best crone.
- Fry Hard – A Cop thriller.
Foyer / Audience Announcements
- Welcome to the show
- No phones or cameras
- Five minutes to curtain up
- Three minutes to curtain up
- Short Interval: Refreshments available
- A very Short Interval
- Short Interval: Please come back
* Therefore guaranteed to complete the quest. (Check any folk tale.)
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Spoof Fairytale Adverts
A set of 8 adverts for fairytale products and services to enhance your show programme.
A set of high definition scaleable .jpg images for you to insert into your show programme.
- A mix of 6 portrait format advertisements to fit on a quarter of an A5 page (63 mm x 91mm) and 2 landscape format designs (132.5 mm x 91 mm) to fit on half an A5 page
- Colour and Monochrome versions.
The Adverts include:
- Panto Direct
- Injury compensation service (1/2 A5 landscape)
- Mother Goose Used Transport Emporium - Magic carpets, broomsticks and pumpkin coaches (1/2 A5 landscape)
- Trouble Sleeping?
- Try an enchanted spinning wheel... (1/4 A5 portrait)
- Fairy Godfather services
- Evil plans thwarted again? Even the odds! (1/4 A5 portrait)
- Beanstalk
- Leguminous vegetable chat line. (1/4 A5 portrait)
- Heroes R Us
- Kingdoms saved, villains vanquished! (1/4 A5 portrait)
- Grimm Brothers Finance and Loans
- The perfect way to manage your debt worries (1/4 A5 portrait)
- Three Pigs Construction services - Saving your bacon! (1/4 A5 portrait)
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Spoof Fairytale Adverts -
Second Set
A second set of 8 adverts for fairytale products and services to enhance your show programme.
A set of high definition scaleable .jpg images for you to insert into your show programme.
- A mix of 6 portrait format advertisements to fit on a quarter of an A5 page (63 mm x 91mm) and 2 landscape format designs (132.5 mm x 91 mm) to fit on half an A5 page
- Colour and Monochrome versions.
The Adverts include:
- Happily Ever After - Fairytale counselling services (1/4 A5 landscape)
- Life Laundry - Transform your image with a Widow Twankey make over (1/2 A5 landscape)
- Crazy Daisy’s Cow Barn - Exchange your unwanted family cow for magic beans (1/4 A5 portrait)
- Goldiloctite - Rapunzel reveals the secret of her strong and long hair! (1/2 A5 landscape)
- Simple Simon Consultants - Specialist help from an expert (?!). (1/4 A4 portrait)
- Cash for Eggs - Trade in your golden eggs (1/4 A5 portrait)
- Easyfate.com
- Getting Princesses and Frogs together! (1/4 A5 portrait)
- The King’s Men
- Have you got what it takes? (1/4 A5 portrait)
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| Pantomime Fun-Packs |
A miniature facsimile of Version 2 (above) and Version 3 (below)
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Version 1 looks like this (only bigger, obviously)
and below we have the one and only Version 4
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Four different booklets, each one made up of 8 pages of pantomime-themed activities to entertain the kids.
- Word searches, mazes, games, jokes, puzzles and pictures to colour in.
- Ideal to keep the panto children's / junior chorus occupied during rehearsals and while in the dressing room!
- Sell to your audiences to raise additional funds for your production.
- Supplied as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file ready to print on A4 landscape to create an 8 page, A5 booklet
- Colour and Monochrome versions available
- Master copy rights granted when you buy the download - allowing you to print / photocopy as many copies as
you require
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Beginnings
A set of 20 short scripts,
intended to be the starting points for improvisation.
Perfect for use in schools and youth theatre workshops.
Intended for 11- to 16-year-olds
(English schools key stages 3 &4)
Downloadable as a pdf file.
Take a
look at a sample, then
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