Good for a Laugh: Six Funny Playscripts for Amateurs - Paperback

by Drew Carson (Author)

Six funny stories and their playscript versions with lyrics and basic music in tonic sol-fa. For amateur production with camcorder, DVD, CD or film. These are all suitable for stage, schools, village halls, colleges, hotels, gardens or in your own home. The stories include humorous tales of many different types - skits, farces, sketches, slapstick, witty humor and satire. Scripts and stories include: 1. A single man feels left out in Do You Serve Singles? 2. Relatives can't help quarrelling in The Viewing of Auntie Agatha. 3. False detectives go on the make in Detectives Only Joking? 4. A young man suffers embarrassment in Sore Bottom. 5. Three prospectors are visited by a conman and Professor Luck in Hope and Go Seek. 6. Thieves form a trade union in The International Convention of Burglars.

Author Biography

Sam Drew Carson was born in the North of Ireland and educated there at Wellington College and the Ulster Polytechnic. He completed his education in the USA at New Mexico Highlands University and the University of Arkansas. He has traveled widely in Europe, around the Atlantic and in North America. Carson worked as a seaman and fish-gutter in Vestmannaeyjar off the coast of Iceland. He has lived and worked in the Irish and Western Isles Gaeltachts and was married in Welsh-speaking Carmarthen after which he honeymooned in Belfast. He has told his stories, composed and sung his songs, seeking storylines in Bristol and the English Westcountry. Carson has also lived and written in Nashville, Tennessee, in the wooded hills of Mid-America and from the Appalachians to the Ozarks. This was the culture that gave rise to the now worldwide Scotch-Irish country music. In the USA, he has also worked beside the bayous of the French-speaking Cajuns in the South and among the Western Spanish-speaking Navajos, Apaches and Pueblos of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico. Carson has sailed far into the seas of old Gaelic and Oriental legend. After many years searching for inspiration for story and music, the author is still traveling and writing.