The Perfect Place for a Mouse – Children’s play based on Aesop’s Fables

$5.50

Set in the 1920s,  a decade of stark contrasts, also known as the Roaring Twenties.  These contrasts  are a thread woven through the story: good versus evil, countryside versus town, educated versus simpleminded, and naivety versus sophistication. This children’s play based on Aesop’s fables starts with Peregrine, a city mouse and a gentleman of leisure reading a letter from his cousin, Archibald, who lives in the country. Due to their financial woes, Archibald is in the process of selling his family’s farm to an unscrupulous buyer, leading to unhappiness within the farming community.

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children's play based on Aesop's fables

THE PERFECT PLACE FOR A MOUSE –  CHILDREN’S PLAY BASED ON AESOP’S FABLES

Set in the 1920s,  a decade of stark contrasts, also known as the Roaring Twenties.  These contrasts  are a thread woven through the story: good versus evil, countryside versus town, educated versus simpleminded, and naivety versus sophistication. This children’s play based on Aesop’s fables starts with Peregrine, a city mouse and a gentleman of leisure reading a letter from his cousin, Archibald, who lives in the country.

Due to their financial woes, Archibald is in the process of selling his family’s farm to an unscrupulous buyer, leading to unhappiness within the farming community. At the behest of his aunt, Peregrine, accompanied by his trusty valet, Aesop, visits Archibald, much to the chagrin of Honesty, Archibald’s wife.  Well-known fables are dotted throughout the story, each with an appropriate moral lesson to dispense.

Please note: This play has music to accompany the songs, and will be available to download with your purchase. 

Other plays by Nicholas Richards:

Parallelodram two – follows the lives of two families with the same problem but opposing solutions
Where there’s a will there’s a play – funny contemporary Shakespeare

Author: Nicolas Richards

Type: Full length one act play

Genre: Children’s play based on Aesop’s fables, comedy, drama

Length: 90 minutes

Cast: 36M, 2F. There are approximately 45 characters in this play; an actual cast of 13 actors could be used by doubling.

Ages of the actors: Children up

Suitable for: All ages to watch and perform

Set: Various: An elegant bachelor town flat. Centre a table and two chairs and inside the ffield-Mouses’ farmhouse at Paradise Farm.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – wrtten for children using language from one hundred years ago in keeping with the language used in the original Aesop’s fables. The English is excellent but non native speakers may find it challenging. 

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Copyright © January 2021 Nicolas Richards and Off the Wall Play Publishers

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CHILDREN’S PLAY BASED ON AESOP’S FABLES

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