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Full-Length Play, Pantomime / 2w, 9m, 8 any gender (adult)
Norman Robbins
In this adaptation of the Grimms' story, children are discovered playing "Ladder words', changing one world to another, a letter at a time, retaining an actual word during each change. Grettle says she can change "flax' into "gold'. Unfortunately, the King, whose gold has been mysteriously disappearing, hears this and mistakes it for an actual boast
In this adaptation of the Grimms' story, children are discovered playing "Ladder words', changing one world to another, a letter at a time, retaining an actual word during each change. Grettle says she can change "flax' into "gold'. Unfortunately, the King, whose gold has been mysteriously disappearing, hears this and mistakes it for an actual boast. He orders Grettle to work the change, or she will lose her head, despite the Prince's protests who's in love with her. She's shut in the Tower to perform her task, and Rumpelstiltzkin, the gnome, offers to help her-- at a price. The play then follows the gnome's defeat by the guessing of his secret name and, despite other complications from the wicked Baron and his henchmen, all ends happily.
First productions in 1979
As of 2016 over 300 productions worldwide
KING MARMADUKE (M)
PRINCE (F or M)
ALAN (F or M)
ROSAMUND (F)
MOTHER HUBBARD (M or F)
GRETTLE (F)
SAMMY (M or F)
BARON (M)
SMASH & GRAB (M or F)
RUMPELSTILTZKIN (M)
HERALD (M or F)
FOOTMAN (M or F)
Mother Hubbard (Dame) preferably played by a man - not a female impersonator
Prince preferably played by a woman (Principal boy character)
The Herald and Footman may be doubled up if desired.
Chorus of guards, villagers, courtiers can be any number, age, or gender
Multiple sets as simple or elaborate as finances allow
Norman Robbins, one of Amateur Theatre's most popular authors, wrote his first stage show almost 60 years ago whilst working for the Yorkshire Evening Post. An avid theatregoer from the age of three (his grandparents ran the pub near the local theatre so free tickets were al ...