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A folktale from Nigeria for ages 8-18, with flex-gendered roles and cultural insights into the timeless and universal lessons of international storytelling.

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Drama

  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Elementary School / Primary, Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, Professional Theatre, Outdoor, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Church / Religious Groups
A folktale from Nigeria. One of six globe-trotting one-acts for ages 8-18, with flex-gendered roles and cultural insights into the timeless and universal lessons of international storytelling. Includes cultural/historical production notes and a glossary or foreign words.

Published in All the World’s a Stage, Volume 3.

Premiere Production: All of the multicultural plays in each of the three volumes of All the World’s a Stage were first performed by MetaStages, a youth theatre outreach program at Penn State University. The plays were developed from folktales by MetaStages founder and director, Joann Rose Leonard.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 8F, 10M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Minority casting, Flexible casting, Cross gender casting, Features Children, Color blind casting, Roles for Children

  • JENN
    FENSKY
    KATE
    SMITTY
    SHEPHERDESS
    BIRD / MATADI
    PRINCE TUNDE
    KING / QUEEN
    ROYAL ADVISOR
    ROYAL PHYSICIAN
    PRINCESS KEIKO
    PRINCESS KATARINA
    PRINCESS SHADE
    PRINCESS OSHUPA
    MONSTER
    PRINCESS INORA
    SNAKES 1 & 2, LIONS, GIANT, SERVANTS TO PRINCESS OSHUPA

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