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Aesop's (Oh So Slightly) Updated Fables

  • Kim Esop-Wylie
  • Short Play, Adaptations (Literature), Comedy, Fables/Folktales, TYA
  • 8M or F
  • ISBN: 9780874400304

This short play, performed for and with kids, weaves five of Aesop's most famous fables into a show that's fun, fast-paced, and full of surprises.

  • Short Play
  • Adaptations (Literature), Comedy, Fables/Folktales, TYA

  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences

  • Performance Group:
  • Elementary School / Primary, Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary, Church / Religious Groups
This short play, performed for and with kids, weaves five of Aesop's most famous fables into a show that's fun, fast-paced, and full of surprises.

Contains: The Dog and the Bone; The Tortoise and the Hare; The Lion and the Mouse; The Fox and the Grapes; The Miller, His Son and the Donkey; and The Country Maid.

From the author of The Dullsville Mystery.

Premiere Production: Premiered in 1997 by the Webster Groves Theatre Guild.
  • Casting: 8M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Flexible casting

  • THE DOG AND THE BONE
    Narrator 1
    Dog
    Butcher
    Girl
    Pond
  • THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
    Miss Hare
    Miss Tortoise
    Narrator 2
    Girl
    Lounge Singer
  • THE LION AND THE MOUSE
    Reporter 1
    Reporter 2
    Mouse
    Lion
    Butcher
    Girl
  • THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
    Fox
    Grapes
    Number Bearer
    Miss Tortoise
  • THE MILLER, HIS SON, AND THE DONKEY
    Narrator 3
    Miller
    Son
    Donkey
    Butcher
    Girl
    Girl 2
    Grumpy Old Guy
    Woman 1
    Woman 2
    Activist 1
    Activist 2
  • THE COUNTRY MAID
    Narrator 4
    Maid
    Chicken 1
    Chicken 2
    Butcher
    Girl
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    This short play, performed for and with kids, weaves five of Aesop's most famous fables into a show that's fun, fast-paced, and full of surprises.

    Contains: The Dog and the Bone; The Tortoise and the Hare; The Lion and the Mouse; The Fox and the Grapes; The Miller, His Son and the Donkey; and The Country Maid.

    From the author of The Dullsville Mystery.

    $24.95