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| The Pied Piper of Hamelin - A Question of Rats by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Very flexible numbers. Whilst the mayor is addressed as 'Mr Mayor', there is no other reason for that role or any other to be of specific gender. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | The Mayor of Hamelin needs a plan to rid the town of a gang of disagreeable rats. He decides to offer a reward for their removal and the challenge is successfully taken up by a mysterious pipe-playing stranger. However the Mayor's popularity among the celebrating townsfolk takes a downturn when he refuses to pay the stranger and the town's children go the way of the rats. Is there another plan? Apparently not. |
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