Prideful Princess, The
- Short Play, Drama
- 5F, 11M or F
- ISBN: SFNY-5662
A folktale from the Ashanti People of Ghana, West Africa, 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 the Ashanti People of Ghana – West Africa. 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.
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: 5F, 11M or F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Minority casting, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Cross gender casting, Features Children, Color blind casting, Roles for Children
GRIOT ASHAKI
GRIOT OKOLO
QUEEN
ADVISOR
PRINCESS
HANDMAIDEN 1
HANDMAIDEN 2
BIRD 1
BIRD 2
BEGGAR CHILD 1
BEGGAR CHILD 2
PRINCESS FUTI / FLOWER
DOCTOR / MOUSE
ANT 1 / COURTIER 1
ANT 2 / COURTIER 2
