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Just So (Silverman)

Full-Length Play  /  6any gender (youth)

Jan Silverman, Rudyard Kipling

Based on the classic stories of Rudyard Kipling

Playwright Jan Silverman adapts the much beloved Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling into a theatrical and strikingly imaginative stage play that can be performed for and by young theatre lovers. Including favorites tales such as "How the Camel Got His Hump", "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin…

Just So (Silverman)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6any gender (youth)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Literature), Theatre for Young Audiences
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences

Details

Summary
Playwright Jan Silverman adapts the much beloved Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling into a theatrical and strikingly imaginative stage play that can be performed for and by young theatre lovers. Including favorites tales such as "How the Camel Got His Hump", "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin", "The Elephant's Child", "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo", "The Beginning of the Armadillos", and "The Cat That Walked by Himself", Silverman playfully captures Kipling's facination with legends, the nature of man, and the way things became the way they are today. An enjoyable, timeless script for all ages, this play is appropriate for schools, communities, and both amateur and professional children's theatres.
Cast Attributes
KIPLING
CAMEL
ELEPHANT'S CHILD
OSTRICH
GIRAFFE
HIPPOPOTAMUS
KOLOKOLO BIRD
PYTHON
CROCODILE
KANGAROO
LITTLE GOD NQA
MIDDLE GOD NQUING
BIG GOD NQUONG
YELLOW DOG DINGO
PARSEE
RHINOCER

Cast can expand up to 22 actors

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Author

Jan Silverman

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was educated in England but returned to India in 1882. In 1892, Kipling married Caroline Balestier and settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he wrote his most famous works, 'Gunga Din' (1892) and The Jungle ...
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