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The Wind in the Willows (Goldberg)

In this animal fantasy, Toad is the rich playboy of the animal kingdom. His current enthusiasm is motor cars, which he embraces passionately without the formality of learning to drive.

  • One Act
  • Fantasy
  • 45 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student
In this animal fantasy, Toad is the rich playboy of the animal kingdom. His current enthusiasm is motor cars, which he embraces passionately without the formality of learning to drive.

After several narrow shaves, his friends, Rat, Mole and Badger, ground him for his own safety at his home, Toad Hall. He manages to elude them and appropriates a police car, which lands him in jail.

In his absence, the weasels take over Toad Hall, and Toad returns to find his elegant mansion in a shambles. Toad's friends to drive the weasels out and restore Toad to his senses, but by that time he has acquired a new passion -- airplanes! 

Premiere Production: First performed at the Showboat Theatre in Seattle, followed by the Asolo Theatre of Sarasota, Fla.
  • Casting: 10M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Flexible casting
  • Casting Notes: 10+ either gender.

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The Wind in the Willows (Goldberg) Script Order Now

In this animal fantasy, Toad is the rich playboy of the animal kingdom. His current enthusiasm is motor cars, which he embraces passionately without the formality of learning to drive. After several narrow shaves, his friends, Rat, Mole and Badger, ground him for his own safety at his home, Toad Hall. He manages to elude them and appropriates a police car, which lands him in jail. In his absence, the weasels take over Toad Hall, and Toad returns to find his elegant mansion in a shambles. Toad's friends to drive the weasels out and restore Toad to his senses, but by that time he has acquired a new passioneairplanes! Unit set. Animal and people costumes. Approximate running time: 45 minutes.

$19.95