Comedy
| Title: | Small Brown Bird (Optioned) | ||||||||||
| Author(s): | Paul Campbell | ||||||||||
| Date: | 17-6-06 | ||||||||||
| Synopsis: | Sylvia's social life is about as barren as the wildlife reserve she manages, until a rare migrant bird tempts hundreds of birdwatching men into her remote and fragile world. | ||||||||||
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A lovely 'Local Hero' style comedy. Which beguiles, thrills and trills ! With careful development a potential winner. |
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| Contact Details: | 0208-464-0658 |
| Title: | Lady B | ||||||||||
| Author(s): | Duncan Irvine Robertson | ||||||||||
| Date: | 26-6-06 | ||||||||||
| Synopsis: | Rachel finally returns after a number of years to her rich parents country house, only to find them both dead and the house now a hotel. Lady B a rich family relation offers to groom the wayward Rachel and prepare her for the estate heirdom. However, first she must marry a man of breeding, and secondly have his child. But she falls for a farmhand......naturally. | ||||||||||
| Appraisal: | A kind of Lady C (Chatterley) but comic by turn and of course comtempary, a well structed yarn with very funny eccentric characters. | ||||||||||
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| Contact Details: | mail@scripshop.co.uk |
| Title: | A Bag of Chips and some Mushy Peas | ||||||||||
| Author(s): | Assid Rashid | ||||||||||
| Date: | 20/11/03 | ||||||||||
| Synopsis: | A comic gangster caper, where youngster ' Tyler ' joins a hard gang with the sole purpose of riping them off. | ||||||||||
| Appraisal: | Not entirely an original theme but 'Chips' succeeds mainly because of it's simple story and comedy angle. The characters may again seem slightly stock, but they're extemely funny in the bargain. Well worth a read. | ||||||||||
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0798 0273474 |
| Title: | G'Waba Girls. (Recent winner of a Golden Remi at the Houston Worldfest.) | ||||||||||
| Author(s): | Dan Wicksman Nuria Wicksman | ||||||||||
| Date: | 27-10-05 | ||||||||||
| Synopsis: | Being a teenager is like being an alien-you feel like a freak and your body's doing weird things, Except that for Anna the metaphor's become reality- after she crosses paths with a runaway alien princess. | ||||||||||
| Appraisal: | Very well written comedy mainly for teenage girls. It's a high concept 'Princess Diaries' piece. If this isn't your thing I 'd certainly advise anyone looking for a comedy writing team to look at this as a example of their work | ||||||||||
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| Contact Details: | danwicksman@yahoo.co.uk |
| Title: | Government Health Warning | ||||||||||
| Author(s): | Tom Fisher | ||||||||||
| Date: | 29-3-06 | ||||||||||
| Synopsis: | Seventy minutes of comedy sketches on the theme of government warnings and general crazy topics. | ||||||||||
| Appraisal: | Extremely witty and original sketches. From name dropping classes to loony EU directives (A women under new EU law is able to sue her child for sleep deprevation) A great read and a superb calling card for Tom as a sketch writer. | ||||||||||
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| Title: | Kleptomaniac | ||||||||||
| Author(s): | Robert Ewart | ||||||||||
| Date: | 4-5-06 | ||||||||||
| Synopsis: | Kleptomanic is the story of...well a compulsive thief who steals nothing but rubbish. Then one day he steals a piece of rubbish that's worth £10million. | ||||||||||
| Appraisal: | Very funny and well written comedy with likeable characters. Currently having re-writes to focus story more. Strongly recommend you take a look in a few weeks time. | ||||||||||
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| Contact Details: | mail@scriptshop.co.uk |