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U.S.L.E.S. are the University of Sheffield Light Entertainment Society. They put on lightly entertaining shows bi-annually. Shows are most often [[{{Pantomime}} pantomimes]], but have also included [[SketchComedy sketch shows]] and comedy plays. All proceeds are donated to a charity chosen by the members of the society. Pantomimes are often sometimes performed to local children, including schools and special needs groups, with a [[{{Bowdlerise}} somewhat edited script]] [[note]]This generally involves removing the profanity and the more obvious penis gags.[[/note]]
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Immature Dramatics.
U.S.L.E.S. are the University of Sheffield Light Entertainment Society. They put on lightly entertaining shows bi-annually. Shows are most often [[{{Pantomime}} pantomimes]], but have also included [[SketchComedy sketch shows]] and comedy plays. All proceeds are donated to a charity chosen by the members of the society. Pantomimes are often performed to local children, including schools and special needs groups, with a [[{{Bowdlerise}} somewhat edited script]] [[note]]This generally involves removing the profanity and the more obvious penis gags.[[/note]]
The society was founded in Summer 2007, and started off borrowing scripts from a sister society. In their first year they put on a pantomime version of "Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk" and a comedy play of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' the following Spring.
In 2008 they started performing plays written by members of the society, and have continued this practice to the present day.
!!Shows U.S.L.E.S. have written and performed:
* ''Literature/SnowWhite'' (Christmas 2008, by Edward H. Matthews, Chess Holdrick & Laura Daly)
* ''PeterPan'' (Spring 2009, by Sam O'nion & Colin Whittle)
* ''Literature/{{Aladdin}}'' (Christmas 2009, by Arkady English & Amy Palmer, with additional storyboarding by Rachael Holden)
* ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' (Spring 2010, by Becci Burley)
* ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' (Christmas 2010, by Edward H. Matthews & Laura Daly, with storyboarding by Chess Holdrick)
* ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' (Spring 2011, by Matt Voice & Arkady English)
* ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' (Spring 2011, by Tim Skew & Sarah Browncross)
* ''Literature/DickWhittington'' (Christmas 2011, by Jen Peake, with Arkady English, Tim Norwood, and Matt Voice)
* ''[[TrappedInTVLand Beware of the Storybook Wolves]]'' (Spring 2012, by Amy Claire Thompson)
* ''Theatre/{{Titus|Andronicus}}'' (Spring 2012, by Tim Norwood)
* ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (Christmas 2012, by Matt Voice)
* ''Singalongapocalypse'' (Spring 2013, by Jen Peake)
* ''Theatre/TheTempest'' (Spring 2013, by Tim Norwood)
* ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' (Christmas 2013, by Tim Norwood)
As most society members (and especially the writers) are total nerds, U.S.L.E.S. plays are full of tropes.
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!!U.S.L.E.S. Tropes:
* AbductionIsLove: U.S.L.E.S. villains often believe this, or try to exploit it. Abanazar in ''Aladdin'' in particular; he keeps Princess Amira in chains to try to force her to marry him. Leonardo in ''Beauty and the Beast'' also seems to like this trope, as he handcuffs Belle to his kitchen sink. Naturally, these villains are proved wrong.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: In the grand tradition of pantomime dames, almost every man in a dress in a U.S.L.E.S. production becomes this. Not to mention male villains such as Abanazar from ''Aladdin'', who are often this in their pursuit of the female lead.
* AbsentMindedProfessor: ''Cinderella'' 's father, Jimothy Jamworth, was pretty much a [[{{Futurama}} Professor Farnsworth]] CaptainErsatz. Professor Banbury from 2011's ''Frankenstein'' also epitomises this trope.
* BetaCouple: A standard feature of any U.S.L.E.S. pantomime - the main love interests usually have friends, advisors or servants who fall for each other. Sometimes this doesn't happen until the very end of the show, when it can also end up as a case of [[PairTheSpares Pair The Spares]].
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Frequently happens when {{pantomime}} characters talk to the audience. "Hello, boys and girls!" is probably one of the most commonly used phrases in U.S.L.E.S. scripts (and even when the audience is made up of students and the casts' parents, they are still 'boys and girls'). Sometimes subverted, as in 2010's ''Cinderella'' when Prince Charming and Dandini describe things which the audience can't see because they are "conveniently located by the fourth wall."
* CoveredInGunge: Slosh scenes are a staple of U.S.L.E.S. pantomimes (and indeed most traditional pantomimes) - a scene in which two or more comic relief characters do something perfectly innocent like bake a cake or put on make-up, but end up covered in whatever messy stuff they're using.
* CrosscastRole: A standard feature of pantomime. Because any person who wants a role in a production is given one, some people end up not playing their own gender in non-pantomime productions too.
* DeadpanSnarker: Advisors to flamboyant, oversexed or just plain stupid royals tend to be this. Dandini from 2010's ''Cinderella'' is probably the most notable.
* DoubleEntendre: Although a lot of the humour in U.S.L.E.S. student pantos tends more towards single entendre, notable examples include:
** From a boyband-themed [[HurricaneOfPuns hurricane of puns]]:
--->"Quiet, or I'll show you my JLS."
** When ''Cinderella'' 's sisters, one played by a woman and one by a man, are arguing over which is the cleverer of the two, the sister played by a woman claims that her pet cat (a graduation gift) is proof that she's the more intelligent:
--->"No pussy, no opinion!"
** ''Dick Whittington'' pretty much blew all previous scripts out of the water when it came to double entendre. Well, when you write about a character called Dick for a student audience, what else would you expect to happen?
--->'''[[TheDitz Alice]]:''' "When Dick sees my new dress, all the blood will rush to his head!"
* EvilIsPetty: In the 2009 productin of ''Aladdin'' which was perfomed for a group of schoolchildren, Abanazar (the bad guy) threatened the audience with double homework every day.
* FilkSong: Many musical numbers are set to tunes from musicals, classic hits, or cheesy pop.
* HoYay: In 2011's performance of ''Dick Whittington'', the title character rejected the advances of the ditzy Alice in the final scene. When she protested that there had to be a happy ending, he put his arm around the cook's son, Billy, and declared that they would have a [[DoubleEntendre happy ending]].
* HurricaneOfPuns: U.S.L.E.S. loves this trope. Hurricanes have blown into pretty much every show, with a record of two puns in one word.
** Well, who could resist such an op-perch-tuna-ty?
* IncrediblyLamePun: They come in hurricanes.
* LovableCoward: Clown characters, like Muddles in ''Snow White'', Wishee Washee in ''Aladdin'', are usually these.
* PantomimeAnimal: 2012's ''Titus'' featured a pantomime pie.
* PunnyName: Loads and loads of them. Such as Shirley Knott and Sir Tanley in ''Snow White'', who get married at the end, making the latter Sir Tanley-Knott.
* SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness: U.S.L.E.S. characters might as well be fully-trained bricklayers for all that the fourth wall gets broken, leant on, built back up and knocked down again, often in the same scene. Male leads, villains, dames and comic characters regularly talk to the audience and [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] pantomime tropes, while female leads and minor characters rarely if ever acknowledge the audience or the fictional nature of their existence.
* ThrowItIn: When a prop from ''Aladdin'' was missing from the final performance (the ring which housed the evil genie) a replacement had to be found at short notice. The villain ended up being the Genie of the Shoe, and Abanazer threatening characters with cries of "Shooooooooeeeee!" ended up being the show's funniest running gag. Children in the audience were even asking to smell the evil shoe.
* YourMom: One actor had a "Your mum" heckle thrown at him during ''Beauty and the Beast''. By his mum.
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Immature Dramatics.
U.S.L.E.S. are the University of Sheffield Light Entertainment Society. They put on lightly entertaining shows bi-annually. Shows are most often [[{{Pantomime}} pantomimes]], but have also included [[SketchComedy sketch shows]] and comedy plays. All proceeds are donated to a charity chosen by the members of the society. Pantomimes are often performed to local children, including schools and special needs groups, with a [[{{Bowdlerise}} somewhat edited script]] [[note]]This generally involves removing the profanity and the more obvious penis gags.[[/note]]
The society was founded in Summer 2007, and started off borrowing scripts from a sister society. In their first year they put on a pantomime version of "Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk" and a comedy play of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' the following Spring.
In 2008 they started performing plays written by members of the society, and have continued this practice to the present day.
!!Shows U.S.L.E.S. have written and performed:
* ''Literature/SnowWhite'' (Christmas 2008, by Edward H. Matthews, Chess Holdrick & Laura Daly)
* ''PeterPan'' (Spring 2009, by Sam O'nion & Colin Whittle)
* ''Literature/{{Aladdin}}'' (Christmas 2009, by Arkady English & Amy Palmer, with additional storyboarding by Rachael Holden)
* ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' (Spring 2010, by Becci Burley)
* ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' (Christmas 2010, by Edward H. Matthews & Laura Daly, with storyboarding by Chess Holdrick)
* ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' (Spring 2011, by Matt Voice & Arkady English)
* ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' (Spring 2011, by Tim Skew & Sarah Browncross)
* ''Literature/DickWhittington'' (Christmas 2011, by Jen Peake, with Arkady English, Tim Norwood, and Matt Voice)
* ''[[TrappedInTVLand Beware of the Storybook Wolves]]'' (Spring 2012, by Amy Claire Thompson)
* ''Theatre/{{Titus|Andronicus}}'' (Spring 2012, by Tim Norwood)
* ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (Christmas 2012, by Matt Voice)
* ''Singalongapocalypse'' (Spring 2013, by Jen Peake)
* ''Theatre/TheTempest'' (Spring 2013, by Tim Norwood)
* ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' (Christmas 2013, by Tim Norwood)
As most society members (and especially the writers) are total nerds, U.S.L.E.S. plays are full of tropes.
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!!U.S.L.E.S. Tropes:
* AbductionIsLove: U.S.L.E.S. villains often believe this, or try to exploit it. Abanazar in ''Aladdin'' in particular; he keeps Princess Amira in chains to try to force her to marry him. Leonardo in ''Beauty and the Beast'' also seems to like this trope, as he handcuffs Belle to his kitchen sink. Naturally, these villains are proved wrong.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: In the grand tradition of pantomime dames, almost every man in a dress in a U.S.L.E.S. production becomes this. Not to mention male villains such as Abanazar from ''Aladdin'', who are often this in their pursuit of the female lead.
* AbsentMindedProfessor: ''Cinderella'' 's father, Jimothy Jamworth, was pretty much a [[{{Futurama}} Professor Farnsworth]] CaptainErsatz. Professor Banbury from 2011's ''Frankenstein'' also epitomises this trope.
* BetaCouple: A standard feature of any U.S.L.E.S. pantomime - the main love interests usually have friends, advisors or servants who fall for each other. Sometimes this doesn't happen until the very end of the show, when it can also end up as a case of [[PairTheSpares Pair The Spares]].
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Frequently happens when {{pantomime}} characters talk to the audience. "Hello, boys and girls!" is probably one of the most commonly used phrases in U.S.L.E.S. scripts (and even when the audience is made up of students and the casts' parents, they are still 'boys and girls'). Sometimes subverted, as in 2010's ''Cinderella'' when Prince Charming and Dandini describe things which the audience can't see because they are "conveniently located by the fourth wall."
* CoveredInGunge: Slosh scenes are a staple of U.S.L.E.S. pantomimes (and indeed most traditional pantomimes) - a scene in which two or more comic relief characters do something perfectly innocent like bake a cake or put on make-up, but end up covered in whatever messy stuff they're using.
* CrosscastRole: A standard feature of pantomime. Because any person who wants a role in a production is given one, some people end up not playing their own gender in non-pantomime productions too.
* DeadpanSnarker: Advisors to flamboyant, oversexed or just plain stupid royals tend to be this. Dandini from 2010's ''Cinderella'' is probably the most notable.
* DoubleEntendre: Although a lot of the humour in U.S.L.E.S. student pantos tends more towards single entendre, notable examples include:
** From a boyband-themed [[HurricaneOfPuns hurricane of puns]]:
--->"Quiet, or I'll show you my JLS."
** When ''Cinderella'' 's sisters, one played by a woman and one by a man, are arguing over which is the cleverer of the two, the sister played by a woman claims that her pet cat (a graduation gift) is proof that she's the more intelligent:
--->"No pussy, no opinion!"
** ''Dick Whittington'' pretty much blew all previous scripts out of the water when it came to double entendre. Well, when you write about a character called Dick for a student audience, what else would you expect to happen?
--->'''[[TheDitz Alice]]:''' "When Dick sees my new dress, all the blood will rush to his head!"
* EvilIsPetty: In the 2009 productin of ''Aladdin'' which was perfomed for a group of schoolchildren, Abanazar (the bad guy) threatened the audience with double homework every day.
* FilkSong: Many musical numbers are set to tunes from musicals, classic hits, or cheesy pop.
* HoYay: In 2011's performance of ''Dick Whittington'', the title character rejected the advances of the ditzy Alice in the final scene. When she protested that there had to be a happy ending, he put his arm around the cook's son, Billy, and declared that they would have a [[DoubleEntendre happy ending]].
* HurricaneOfPuns: U.S.L.E.S. loves this trope. Hurricanes have blown into pretty much every show, with a record of two puns in one word.
** Well, who could resist such an op-perch-tuna-ty?
* IncrediblyLamePun: They come in hurricanes.
* LovableCoward: Clown characters, like Muddles in ''Snow White'', Wishee Washee in ''Aladdin'', are usually these.
* PantomimeAnimal: 2012's ''Titus'' featured a pantomime pie.
* PunnyName: Loads and loads of them. Such as Shirley Knott and Sir Tanley in ''Snow White'', who get married at the end, making the latter Sir Tanley-Knott.
* SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness: U.S.L.E.S. characters might as well be fully-trained bricklayers for all that the fourth wall gets broken, leant on, built back up and knocked down again, often in the same scene. Male leads, villains, dames and comic characters regularly talk to the audience and [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] pantomime tropes, while female leads and minor characters rarely if ever acknowledge the audience or the fictional nature of their existence.
* ThrowItIn: When a prop from ''Aladdin'' was missing from the final performance (the ring which housed the evil genie) a replacement had to be found at short notice. The villain ended up being the Genie of the Shoe, and Abanazer threatening characters with cries of "Shooooooooeeeee!" ended up being the show's funniest running gag. Children in the audience were even asking to smell the evil shoe.
* YourMom: One actor had a "Your mum" heckle thrown at him during ''Beauty and the Beast''. By his mum.
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