Take warning...Someone or something might get eaten! It could be mandatory treats in the town of Sweet Tooth, a watermelon you're not supposed to touch, or...it could be you.
These fresh, innovative plays engage the whole child, honoring multiple intelligences and diverse styles of learning. The plays foster mutually-supportive expression and are well suited to multi-cultural education. Each piece is a one-act play that can be performed singly or grouped with others in the series. Ideal for school productions, community children's theaters, or intergenerational collaboration, each play has been workshopped or produced with actors of various ages.
Why “edible”? Eating is one of the most tangible (and delicious) ways we engage with our environment. And so -- consciousness about edibles may well be the seat of compassion, a way of taking one's place in the cycle of life.
I. Sticks and Stone Pizza
There's one way to make good when you're the new kid at school. And that's “stone pizza.”
Themes: Bullying, apology, forgiveness
Inspiration: The European tale "Stone Soup."
II. The Pig from Colorado
It's not that coyotes are bad guys, unless, by chance, you're a pig. Good thing the pig is T. Rex – and has a friend.
Themes: Friendship, courage, compassion
Inspiration: A true event at Wilderness Ranch, CO, where a horse saves the life of a pig.
III. Peaches Loves Peas
Help! Please help! Peaches loves peas. Doesn't Peaches know by now? Peas are poison!
Themes: Change, fear, persistence
Inspiration: A Roman custom in which fresh peas are poisonous.
IV. Dandelion Mystery
Mystery is afoot when dandelions turn into lemons. Who done it? Here's a clue – It happens before your very own eyes.
Themes: Social roles, adventure, expectations
Inspiration: An East-coast urban legend in which a trickster is at play overnight.
V. Frog Princess, A.K.A. Pete
The only problem with being a Frog Princess is nobody seems to speak “Frog.”
Themes: Translation, immigration, environment
Inspiration: A French proverb, "One feels good at the King's house but feels better at home."
VI. The Great Big, Little, Talking Vegetable Mix Up
What difference does it make if you're not really invisible, when nobody sees you anyway? Or do they?
Themes: Size, power, communication
Inspiration: A Welsh tale in which the wee folk finally speak up.
VII. Watermelon Belly
Maybe you can think fast; maybe you can talk fast. But when you're caught with somebody else's breakfast, what do you do?
Themes: Hunger, poverty, human rights
Inspiration: An oral story of the Great Depression, as told by the author's grandfather.
VIII. Delicious!
With a name like North Dakota, the place sounds nice enough. Don't be fooled! You'll find chokecherries, skunkbush, cactus plants to poke you. And what will you eat?
Themes: Ecology, tenacity, curiosity
Inspiration: A Turkish proverb, "Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit."
IX. How the Nose Goes
Who knew birds would come along and snatch everyone's noses – and give you the wrong one back?
Themes: Cultural competence, difference, zoology
Inspiration: A Cheyenne proverb, "Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins."
X. Doctor Dragon
A commercial comes to life on the set of “Dr. Pepperoni” – and swallows all the guests. But what if you are what you eat?
Themes: Celebrity, advertising, peace culture
Inspiration: A Spanish proverb, "The belly rules the mind."
XI. Wanted: The Sun
The sun has disappeared! Can her sister find her? How about the news team? Or the astronauts?
Themes: Astronomy, reconciliation, news media
Inspiration: A Japanese tale, in which the Sun returns to the sky because of laughter.
XII. Don't Dance!
The narrator's really an alligator – or refrigerator...or calculator? And somebody's aching to dance. Who?
Themes: Collaboration, art, work
Inspiration: A Zimbabwean proverb, "If you can walk, you can dance."
XIII. Great Big & The X
All I know is – wait. What do I know? (And is there a poem in that?)
Themes: Uncertainty, truth, identity
Inspiration: Scottish and English rhymes, such as
"Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet,
eating her curds and whey. Along came a tarantula...!"
Wait -- is that how it goes?
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