Hand of Friendship, The
- Short Play, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Fables/Folktales
- 16M or F
- ISBN: SFNY-6027
A folktale from India 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
- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Fables/Folktales
- 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, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Outdoor, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Church / Religious Groups
A folktale from India. 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: 16M 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
INDU - a student
RAVI - a student
OSAMA - a student
SONALI - a student
JAHAN - the acting teacher
MIRA - the pipal tree
PUNJAB - the elephant
NANDA - the water buffalo
BRAHMAN 1
BRAHMAN 2
BRAHMAN 3
JACKAL 1
JACKAL 2
TAJ - a tiger
KHAN - a tiger
