Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
GIANT: A father, uncle, or big brother, tall, deep-voiced. Scarlet shirt, loose, elephant-colored jacket and knickerbockers, scarlet hose, rough shoes. Needless to say, he should be stuffed out as much as possible. A scarlet sash stuck full of swords and daggers. An alarm-cloc...
SCENE.--_The Spider’s Web. A dark, dungeon-like room. Straw on floor. Small door at left. Swords and spears hanging on rear wall. Spinning-wheel, centre. From it radiate many st...
6. SCENE 1.--_A room in_ GIANT GREATBIG’S _Castle. Rear, left, window;fireplace, with lighted candle on the mantel, centre; door, right, rear. Bare wooden floor. Left, a big cradle, containing the_ GIANT’S _baby. A rocking-chair next the cradle. R...
11. ACT I.CAROL. Why, don’t you know? It’s Dorothy Dot. Dear little Dorothy! It’s all because she was enchanted when she was only seven years old, by that dreadful enemy of all Sunshine p...
12. ACT II.CAROL. Too bad! Never mind, we’ll pick them up for you. (_To_ ROY.) She looks tired. (_To_ OLD WOMAN.) Suppose you sit down on this rock and rest, and we’ll ---- (OLD WOMAN _sit...
4. SCENE 1.--_A clearing in a thick wood. Left, the bean-stalk; right,the sugar-plum tree and the telephone tree. The four children_, KIT, JOSCELIN, MAYSIE, GILLIAN, _are discovered, with their clothes somewhat torn and mussed. The girls are seate...
9. ACT I.SCENE.--_The Meadow. Music. A birthday party in honor of_ LITTLE MISS MUFFET, _who at the rise of the curtain is discovered on her tuffet, centre_. _Left, a number of baskets. D...
1. Act II.--The Castle of Giant Greatbig.GIANT: A father, uncle, or big brother, tall, deep-voiced. Scarlet shirt, loose, elephant-colored jacket and knickerbockers, scarlet hose, rough shoes. Needless to say, he shoul...
7. ACT II.--The Spider’s Web.LITTLE MISS MUFFET: A dainty little girl of ten, with long hair and a daisy garland. Short frock of white or sky-blue, bare legs, and socks to match the frock. White slippers.
8. ACT I. Back scene to represent a blue sky. A green carpet should bespread, and over it grass or hay should be scattered. The tuffet is a tiny stool made of rough wood; or the stool may be a handsome gilded one, with a cushion of yellow silk. Th...
3. ACT II. The fireplace may be cut through sheets of cardboard. A box maybe placed in the opening. The larger the fireplace, the more giant-like will it seem. It would be a very good thing if some of the little carpenters in the company could make a...
5. SCENE 2.--_The same._ JACK THE GIANT-KILLER _is chopping furiously at2. SCENE 2. Before the curtain goes up the bean-poles should be lifted outof their sockets, and the tops loosened and held in place by ropes in the hands of actors on the platform above. At the right moment the poles are allowed to fall.