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Looking for a large cast comedy play script with plenty of female roles for your next festival or drama competition? It's time to get Goosed!
When two poor sisters save a goose from the butcher, the animal is so grateful it produces them piles of gold. But when their greedy neighbors want the treasure for themselves, they discover this goose isn't so easily cooked. From a blood thirsty fowl with golden stool to a careless prince who gets it in the end, soon everyone is feeling the pinch. With a large cast, majority female roles, lots of physical comedy and room for improvisation, Goosed is an Italian fairy tale in the classic slapstick tradition that's a butt-load of fun for all ages to watch and perform.
Kindness is as good as gold in this modern adaptation of The Goose from Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales (Il Pentamerone, Lo cunto de li cunti).
- Comedy / Fantasy
- One Act Stage Play
- 25-35 minutes
- 6 Female 1 Male 5 Any
- Cast size: 11-unlimited
Demographics
Ideal for middle school to high school teen performers through adults
Features
- Simple, flexible staging.
- Large cast with majority female roles.
- Ensemble with plenty to do that can expand based on your casting needs.
- Opportunities for physical comedy, masked commedia dell'arte, improvisation and puppets.
- School friendly version with tamer content available.
- Great length for drama competitions and classroom study.
Fairly Obscure Fairy Tale Plays
Looking for some crowd-pleasing, funny fairy tale plays that aren't the same old standards? Playwright Hillary DePiano presents the weirdest and wackiest lesser-known folk and fairy tales as family friendly stage adaptations perfect for schools and community theatre. From large cast, one-act comedies to commedia dell'arte scripts with a modern twist for classroom use, there are plenty of options to help your group live happily ever after!
Want to combine any of the plays together to make an evening's entertainment? Interstitials and connecting scenes are available upon request.
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Goosed! - Hillary DePiano
Goosed!
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Hillary DePiano
Based on The Goose from The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile
Copyright 2015, 2020 Hillary DePiano
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ISBN: 978-1-944909-12-3 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-944909-13-0 (eBook)
For inquires, requests for permission, to secure rights for performance or other needs, please contact Hillary DePiano through her website at HillaryDePiano.com. Discounted acting editions are available for schools and groups ordering in bulk for performance or classroom needs.
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The Tale of Tales project
Giambattista Basile (1566–1632) wrote and compiled the 60 fairy tales within The Pentamerone (Lo cunto de li cunti in Neapolitan or The Tale of Tales in English) in Naples, Italy in the early 1600s. His sister, Adriana, published it in two volumes in 1634 and 1636 after his death. While not widely known, it's important historically because the Brothers Grimm later used it as the source for their far more famous fairy tale collection. The Tale of Tales contains the earliest known versions of fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Hansel and Gretel and more.
But I'm not interested in the stories everyone has heard of. I like the obscure ones, the weird ones lost to time. Why do we obsessively retell the same dozen fairy tales when there are plenty of other great ones we ignore?
It bothers me. So, since early 2013, I've been adapting these lesser-known tales for modern audiences to bring these stories
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