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Selfish Giant, The (Walter)

The Selfish Giant is a kids' show, but the theme is universal. Its simple message may influence your child, but its effect on you may be refreshingly unexpected.

The Tribeca Tribune

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Description

  • Short Musical
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Children (Age 6 - 10), Appropriate for all audiences, Young Children (Age 2 - 5)
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions
  • Orchestra Size: Piano Only

  • Performance Group:
  • Elementary School / Primary, Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
When four bored children decide to play in the Giant's garden, they are in for a nasty surprise. The Giant builds a fence to keep them out, and threatens anyone who tries to come in. 

But when winter comes and sees that no one is having any fun, it decides to stay forever. It's up to the new girl in town to take down the fence and teach the Giant a lesson in friendship.
REVIEWS:

The Selfish Giant is a kids' show, but the theme is universal. Its simple message may influence your child, but its effect on you may be refreshingly unexpected.

The Tribeca Tribune

Kristin Walter's charming adaptation of Oscar Wilde's fairy tale about a giant who builds a wall around his garden so no children can play there is as relevant for millennial children as it was to Wilde's Victorian readers.

Off-Off Broadway Review

Larisa Bryski's songs will delight theatergoers 3 to 9 years old.

The New York Times
Premiere Production: The Selfish Giant was originally produced by Peninsula Youth Theatre. A subsequent production was held at Vital Theatre Company. The final version premiered at the celebrated and critically-acclaimed Manhattan Children's Theatre.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Flexible casting, Expandable casting, Features Children, Color blind casting, Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: Can be cast with 4 males and 5 females or 2 males and 3 females with doubling.

WINNIE - A mischievous young girl
BETH - Sweet young girl
MAX - A rambunctious young man
SARAH - A kind young girl
THE GIANT - A selfish old man
SNOW - A glamorous female
FROST - A movie star type male
NORTH WIND - A Rat Pack type
HAIL - A dumb blonde

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