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| Meet the Anglo-Saxons by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. (Whilst the characters are nominally male or female, for the purpose of Readers' Theatre, the gender of the actors doesn't matter.) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (run times 4 to 6 minutes) for a class studying The Anglo-Saxons (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 6B - invasions and settlements of Britain). No set requirements, no props. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | Five plays covering Anglo-Saxon history, archaeology and myth. Includes King Alfred, the venerable Bede, Beowulf, Arthurian myth, and the Sutton Hoo discoveries.
Intended for guided reading or reader's theatre uses, but could also be staged. |
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