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Forgot to say in my earlier post that I'm sending the script for "Reservoir Dwarves" to a guy at Reading university who seems interested in putting it on in January. This is the first in my series of PanTarantinomimes, even though the second - and only other - is actually a PantRitchiemime "Lock, Stock, and One Smoking Lamp". I have a bit of tidying up to do, some dodgy references to highlight as possibly needing cutting (such as when Evil Queen Evil goes "Mirror, Mirror, on the table - laid down flat so the chang is stable" - but you know what these students are like, they'll prolly ask me to write in more stuff like that. When we did it in Durham, we had a few Christians complain afterwards, and I take that as a measure of how well it has been put on!). Also need to double check some copywrite issues, seeing as we nick songs from Rocky Horror Picture Show, Otis Redding, Rolling Stones and several others.. But hopefully it will go ahead as a public perfomance! Yay!

In case I hadn’t already bored you stiff with the background, the whole thing started out with one joke made up in the middle of a whisky session one Christmas:

The Seven Dwarves were all sitting around bored one evening, Snow White was deep in her coma and there was no sign of Prince Charming so Doc and the boys were kicking their heels. As if prompted by some joke-related time-line of events, Doc's mobile phone went off ("Crazy Elf" ringtone) and he answered:

"Hey! How are you babe? No.. Not much.. Really? Do I know any of them? Right.. Really? What time? Wicked! See you there!"

The other dwarves crowded round him expectantly.

"Get your best pixie boots on boys, we're all off to a party tonight where there will be lots of very loose women, and they are all gonna be sky-high on drugs!" exclaimed their leader, to cheers of excitement by the others. True to form, Dopey needed this clarifying:

"You mean there are gonna be some high ho's?"

*Dwarves start singing "High Ho!"*