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We have now brought out a second set of spoof fairytale and pantomime themed Advert Images that you can download and insert into your show programmes to add a little bit more silliness to your next pantomime.
Our radio style sketch collection, the Bright and Shiny Radio show is now available. Visit the Revue Show Scripts page for more details.
We have also finally finished our daft horror pantomime Pantostein. A traditional family panto with a horror theme full of ghosties, ghoulies and things that go bump in the night! Read more about it here!
Our revue Skitskrieg, a collection of World War 2 themed sketches is now published and available for purchase. You can read more on our Revue Show scripts page. A number of the sketches from the collection have also been published as individual titles.
Steve and David took a show of radio style comedy sketches to the Buxton Festival Fringe in association with Milton Keynes Theatre of Comedy. We received great audience feedback and a fantastic review: "…material that's primetime Radio 4… and pokes fun without threatening to remove your comfort blanket". We are now in the process of reworking some of the content to create a complete review show script suitable for 'radio style' performance.
Our new e-book Writing a play for the Amateur Stage is now available. Click here to read more!
After several years on a back burner, our horror phantomime concept Pantostein has, like Frankenstein’s monster, been given life once more and script writing has started again. We should have more news on this in the next couple of months.
Steve and David are playing roles in Fawlty Towers by MKTOC to be performed in Milton Keynes this September. Steve plays Basil Fawlty and David is directing the show and also playing the role of Mr Hutchinson, a guest who Basil mistakes for a Hotel inspector.
Progress on our latest pantomime title, Sinbad the Sailor, has been held up with other commitments and projects taking priority but we hope to get back on the case soon.
We have just completed a Gangster themed Murder Mystery - Dead Men Don’t Get Dessert.
We have just completed a new Murder Mystery title as a commission for a regular customer – Lepre-CON, exploring murder and mayhem at a convention for lovers of all things fairy related! We have also started another murder title on a Gangster theme which will be available within the next couple of months.
David and Steve are performing with Milton Keynes Theatre of Comedy over the Easter weekend in a review celebrating the comedy sketches of Beyond the Fringe and Monty Python raising money for charity. They are also developing sketches as part of a show they will be taking with other comic pals to the Buxton Fringe Festival in July.
Damian is putting the finishing touches to a new e-book that we will be publishing online: A guide to writing plays for the amateur stage. Watch this space or email Damian for more info.
We have hit 2010 running and are already busy plotting our next Pantomime – Sinbad the Sailor. We plan for this to be ready in the early summer and will be posting more details in February. We are also working on a series of sketches for a World War Two themed review commissioned by a theatre group in Spain.
Our latest sketches include the Frustrated Poet, in which a writer of verse struggles to find his muse and Getoutofmyface.com exploring the world of social networking websites!
David and Steve have been attending a Radio Comedy Sketch writing course at Citylit in London so expect a series of silly short sketches coming soon!
We have added a new Murder Mystery to our range; Oliver with a Twist - murder with a Dickensian flavour!
As always, as the Pantomime season gets well underway, we would like to wish the many groups performing our titles this Christmas and New Year al the very best with their productions!
This month we reached a new landmark for TLC, as we passed 3000 worldwide productions of our script titles! To date our scripts have been used in over 50 countries.
We’ve also launched 10 new card designs in our popular theatrical Americana captioned picture range. You can view the full selection on our card page.
Thecentre:mk Christmas display opened this month featuring our scripted and voiced soundtracks. David took part as Ringmaster in the Circus parade through the centre to welcome Santa to his grotto!
 We are delighted to launch our 2010 desktop calendar. This year we have moved from the world of panto and theatre into the world of the surreal! Ducks in Trucks is a very silly calendar exploring the world of heavy haulage vehicles and the aquatic fowl that drive them! Read more here!
The backing tracks for thecentre:mk Big Top Christmas Circus show have now been recorded. The display opens on November 6th with a grand parade which we will be helping to organise. Read more about our work with thecentre:mk on our corporate page.
In collaboration with MKTOC we appeared at the IKEA store in Milton Keynes as the 'Billy Shakespeare players', performing a series of silly Shakespearean themed sketches to customers. This was all part of the IKEA celebrations of 30 years of the Billy Bookcase.
We’ve come up with three new sketches. In the Secret Service explores an interview for MI6, Two Cops is a silly string of police related jokes, ideal for a cabaret / revue and the 2nd Amendment takes a look at our American cousin’s gun laws!
And as the pantomime season fast approaches, Steve and David are preparing to tread the boards once more. Steve appears as Gaston, the hunter in Beauty and the Beast by MKAOS in Milton Keynes, while David gets to don a frock as Dame Sarah in a production of our Dick Whittington script by the Bedford Pantomime Company.
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Pantomimes
Our next full length traditional family pantomime is Sinbad the Sailor. While the plot and characters have been defined, the script writing is at very early stage. More details to follow when available.
If there is an underexposed pantomime you'd like to see a fresh take on then email us! David will hear your pleas...
We are also continuing to look at more off-beat pantomime concepts such as a pantomime / comedy based on the 'Big Bad Wolf' stories.
Plays
After experimenting we've realised that the songs in our musical of Nursery Crimes actually detracted from the dialogue, so we're adapting it instead into a full-length comedy play! For more information please email Damian.
Musicals
We are working on the script for a full length comedy (which will include a number of songs that form part of the plot) entitled A Tribute to Myself. For more information please email Damian.
Miscellaneous
We continue to look for more creative outlets. All in accord with our plans for World Domination! Do you have an idea we could work on? What do you feel your productions lack that we might provide a solution for? Email David with your inspirations!
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