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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w, 15m, 20 any gender (youth)
Randall Lewton
When the pupils of 9B ( 3B at the time the play was written ) arrive in Italy on a cultural exchange visit, little do they realize that they are going to have to contend not only with a strange language, foreign food and a gang of Italian boys who seem intent on re-running World War II, but also a sea monster which has been terrorizing the town.
With the help of their long-suffering teacher, the boys of 9B destroy the monster and even manage to reach a sort of détente with the local youths. You might find a moral in all this but it was just designed as a fun show for performers and audiences alike. Originally designed to allow a very large cast (of seventy) to all make a significant contribution to the production, the play can be performed with fewer people, and with more female roles than are shown in the cast list. Large mimed sequences allow physical theatre skills to be used and there are wonderful opportunities to use music and to construct elaborate (or simple) sets. There is also the monster to be created.
The play was first presented at Calday Grange Grammar School in West Kirby.
The play was designed to allow a very large cast to all make a significant contribution to the final production. We had about seventy people. There is room for more but you could present the play very successfully with many fewer. Our cast consisted of two groups of "mimers" who handled all the physical theatre sections between them and the speaking parts were taken by a third group who did not take part in the mimes at all. Again, other arrangements are possible. The list of characters shows many more male than female roles in the play. If a more even balance is desired then it is quite possible for any of the following roles to become female with only a few minor changes necessary to the text:
Sean Jimmy Richie Cyril Billy The boy in Scene 6 Fordy Giuseppe
The Headmaster Many of the "mimers"
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