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| The Most Beautiful Flower by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for junior/secondary school children, based on an Eastern European folk tale (translated by Antonia Barber). No formal scenes, but several location changes which, in the original production, were managed by the soldiers moving furniture! |
| Synopsis | The young prince of a kingdom inherits the throne and decrees that, since his late father was given a lot of bad advice by his elderly advisors, all old people must be banished. In the meantime his daughter must find a husband from the remaining young men of the kingdom. One young farmer enlists the help and wisdom of his grandfather, who hid from the guards rather than face exile, to win the princess's heart - and restore the new king's trust in the wisdom of age. |
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| The Twelve Months by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for junior/secondary school children, based on an Eastern European folk tale (translated by Antonia Barber). The author suggests a single set divided into three areas. |
| Synopsis | Marushka, the young stepdaughter of a widow, is always being ordered around and berated when she questions her stepmother's unreasonable requests. As punishment, her stepmother asks her to leave the house in January and only return when she has found a bunch of Violets - flowers which only grow in April. She dutifully acccepts, only to stumble upon the meeting-place of the twelve months of the year. They agree to help her, but when she returns with violets, her stepmother has more tasks for her... |
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