SETS - PROPS - COSTUMES
Vinyl grass
fringe,
for table
10 ft - $5
Rack: $27
THE ACTORS
- The actor/s playing The Moralists and the Narrators walk onstage with their scripts in a book. They bow to the audience, and sit on chairs far on either side of the stage, close to the audience.
- When the actors aren't speaking, they mime what the Narrators are saying.
- Before each scene one Announcer comes onstage, faces the audience, bows, announces the title, and leaves.
- The scenery changes can be choreographed.
COSTUMES
You can make animal costumes, but you may just want to use clothes that will give one an idea of the animals.
Accessories can be shawls, jackets and hats.
Dark glasses are great disguises, for children
they can be found in different colors, in plastic.
Ants can wear black or dark blue t-shirts and
baseball caps. Theses are all just suggestions.
Fox will wear clothes and hats depending on the personality you want to give him, either a slick fox with slick clothes, or more laid back in jeans.
LION
TORTOISE
FOX
MOUSE
CROW
STAGE
SCENE ONE
The Lion and The Mouse
SCENE TWO
Rooster, Dog and Fox
SCENE THREE
The Hare and The Tortoise
SCENE FOUR
The Fox and The Grapes
SCENE FIVE
The Fox and The Crow
SCENE SIX
The Beehive
SCENE SEVEN
The Frog and The Bulls
Hunter's net >
behind the tree
Table with grass skirt
Covered >
Step ladder
< Bench or chairs with brown fabric
Clothes rack with grass skirt and grapes
Narrator >
Morality >
< Narrator
< Morality
Material and/or plastic for stream
Rooster perches on the ladder
Dog sleeps behind
Fox
Hare falls asleep here
< Partitions
Rooster and Dog enter this way and go around the stage >>>
Bulls hide behind or under the table
Frogs hang out on beach towels,
with beach balls and cocktail drinks
Crow (or Crow Puppet) stands on the stool with the cheese in his mouth
SCENE EIGHT
The Cat and The Mice
The Bulls never need be seen, move the table when they argue, and in the last scene shakes the ends of the 'stream', turn lights off and on along with loud noises.
< Cover the green fabric with brown fabric. This becomes the 'wall' where the mice live.
Frogs
Mouse Elder
Cat
Actors dressed the same carry poles with bees on poles with strings. They can follow Barney.
Add the blackberry bush on the table
Cover the stool with a beehive
Stick
Barney's wife Wilma comes in later, with a towel
Take off the beehive cover
The grapes are held by a string.
In Scene Four someone is in the back to cut the string.
ACT ONE
Ants cross with a long log made from fabric
The Ants can do the change in scenery
Someone is behind to cut the grapes
PROPS
Newspaper
Coffee cup
Basket
PROPS
Basket with pie, wine and glass
Box for names
Party favors and crown
under table
PROPS
Feather
Net
PROPS
Cheese
PROPS
Beach towels
Beach balls
Cocktail drinks
Noise
PROPS
Brown fabric
Clothes rack
for background, or mobile whiteboard
You can cover it with the grass fringe, or make your own tree background.
Brown fabric for
'Cat and Mice'
Stepladder covered with a brown fabric for the tree trunk
for 'Dog, Rooster and Fox'
for 'Cat and Mice'
And for 'The Beehive' cover
Net for
'Lion and Mouse'
$7
Blue fabric or plastic for stream
One long Table, cover with grass fringe
Bench or two chairs
Crown and
Party favors for
'Hare and Tortoise'
Hide under the table
Cut sponge for a quarter of cheese for 'Fox and Crow'
Grapes for
'Fox and grapes'
Or....
< Party favors and crown under the table for 'Hare and Tortoise'
HARE
Lion sleeps on bench
The celebrations take place here.
< Stool
PROPS
Blackberry bush
Stick
Bees on a string
Beehive cover
Towel
ACT TWO
You can have the Ants go across a second time while the 'stream is bundled to one side
Fox should wear different outfits for each scene
Stool to place behind the tree backdrop
for 'Fox and Crow'
