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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 6m, 3 any gender (adult)
David Wood, Dave Arthur, Toni Arthur
Book by David Wood Music by Dave Arthur and Toni Arthur
To celebrate the eightieth birthday of Jack the Lad, the senior gypsy in the encampment, "Jack" songs and tales (like Little Jack Horner and Jack and the Beanstalk) are enacted with singing, dancing, a mumming play, a shadow mime and puppetry.…
Following the success of their collaboration on Robin Hood, David Wood and Dave and Toni Arthur wrote Jack the Lad, a musical celebration of Jack, the ubiquitous hero or everyman of English legend, myth and folklore – from Little Jack Horner, through Jack and the Beanstalk to Spring Heeled Jack, the Terror of London.
The setting is a gypsy encampment, where a series of Jack tales and songs are performed by the gypsies to celebrate the 80th birthday of their senior member – affectionately known as Jack the Lad. The play, therefore, depicts contemporary gypsy life, as well as traditional gypsy customs and superstitions, and is a delightful amalgam of the traditional arts of story-telling, singing and dancing, with a mumming play, a shadow-mime and puppetry also employed within the main framework.
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David Wood has been called “the national children’s dramatist” (London Times). His plays are performed worldwide, and include The Gingerbread Man, The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner, Save the Human, Aladdin, Hijack Over Hygenia, Jack the Lad, Larry the Lamb in Toytown, Old ...