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Aesop's Fables by Gerald P. Murphy Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters include a wolf, a lamb, a lion, a mouse, three ants, a grasshopper, an owl, a dog, a tortoise, and a hare. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Each story could be played separately. |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children - a narrated dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific props or set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
Synopsis | Four tales in which wolf bullies lamb, mouse befriends lion, ants ignore grasshopper and tortoise out-runs hare. |
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Aesop's Fables II by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Characters include mice, a cat, a lion, sheep, a wolf and foxes. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
Synopsis | A group of mice are delighted by their plan for constraining the local cat - until it comes to executing the plan. Meanwhile, a lion falls in love, a boy ruins his chance of promotion in the shepherding business, and a fox tries to make the most of a fashion disaster! (A musical version of this set of stories is available as Aesop's Fables - The Musical) |
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Aesop's Fables III by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters include farm animals, crows and various rodents. (Whilst they have gender-specific names, they're animals, and the gender of the actors is irrelevant!) |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
Synopsis | Tales of resourceful crows, splitting hares, bovine buffoonery and meals for mice. (If Aesop lived today, he would be inspired by the video of Tool-Making Crows on YouTube.) |
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Billy Goat Gruff - Play by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The troll is nominally male. One male goat and two female goats. The narrators are elves. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple play for young children. Basic stage set (a bridge!). Costumes, but no props. |
Synopsis | Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in. |
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Cagic Mup by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a pantomime cow. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fable told as a Spoonerising verse play for children. |
Synopsis | Captain Spoon's family are starving. Their cow must be sold. The exchange for a magic cup provokes delight and disaster. |
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The Devil and Tom Walker by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short fantasy melodrama, adapted from the Washington Irving short story. Compèred by rhyming narrators. |
Synopsis | Tom Walker meets the Devil, who offers him buried treasure in exchange for his soul. Eventually Tom agrees to the bargain and becomes a merciless moneylender, hoarding his great fortune. Later, Tom begins to fear damnation and makes a great show of being religious. Despite Tom's newfound piety, the Devil comes for him on a black horse, and Tom is never seen again. |
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The Gossip by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are adults, intended to be played by children. (Two of the female characters could be switched to male by changing two words.) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple play in rhyming couplets. No specific set requirements. One prop (a wedding cake!) |
Synopsis | Mrs. Grey tries to stop a rumour spreading by telling everyone that it isn't true. The result is that the rumour spreads rapidly, and her daughter's wedding is ruined. |
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A Magic Paint Brush by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Whilst Chen is written as a girl, the character could easily be switched to a boy (likewise Old Sing and the Magician are written male but could be female). Cast includes a cow and a small flock of (talking) chickens. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children, based on a Chinese folk tale. Simple set (the set calls for a hut upstage, but that could merely be implied by an upstage exit), simple props. |
Synopsis | In feudal China, Chen and her mother are oppressed by their landlord and his greedy, vindictive family. Then a magician arrives and gives Chen a magic paint brush, painting with it makes dreams come true... |
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The Nightly News by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fantasy performed in the style of a news programme - minimal sets and props for a TV studio and roving reporters. |
Synopsis | The studio anchors for The Nightly News introduce stories from the lands of Spoonerism, rhyme, hyperbole and cliché. (Only two of which are uncommon in more conventional news programmes.) |
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The Pardner's Tale by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single (saloon) set. (US English) |
Synopsis | A short stage adaptation of Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale', brought into the dying days of the Wild West. Three outlaws try to make a mint, but they cannot cheat Death! |
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