TITLE: The Amazing Jack and the Magic Beanstalk
RECOMMENDED AGE GROUP: level 2, from eight years to ten.
CHARACTERS: Jack and his mom, Jimmy the farmer, the narrator, Holly the Hen, Molly the Harp, Brian the Giant and the chorus.
CHARACTER OBJECTIVES:
JACK: He is the hero of the story. Jack wants to be rich because actually he is very poor.
JACK´S MOM: a nice woman who wants Jack was more cautious.
JIMMY THE FARMER: a mysterious man who gives jacks the beans. NARRATOR: the voice in the shadow, s/he tells us how the story goes.
HOLLY THE HEN: she is magic, and she wants to be famous!
MOLLY THE HARP: she is also magic and wants to see the outside world. BRIAN THE GIANT: He is the villain; a grumpy giant who doesn´t want to have human contact.
THE CHORUS: a set of children that follows Jack´s adventures.
SYNOPSIS: This outline is based on the story of 'Jack and the beanstalk'.This is the story of a young boy who is living with his mother in a tiny poor farm. Their only means of earnings is an old cow. One day the cow stops giving milk anymore, Thus, Jack´s mom sends him to the market to sell it. On his way to the market he meets a mysterious farmer who offers to give him tiny, little magic beans in exchange for the big cow. Jack takes the beans but when he arrives home without money, his mother becomes furious and throws the beans out the window and sends Jack to bed without having dinner. While Jack was sleeping, the bean grows into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack wakes up to behold an enormous beanstalk. He climbs the monumental beanstalk and arrives in a land high up in the sky where he follows a path to a huge castle, which is the home of a grumpy giant. Jack enters the huge castle and when the giant comes, he is hidden in a wardrobe. From this point of view Jack can hear the giant eating while a magic harp is singing and a hen is forced to give him a golden egg every day. Jack steals the hen and the harp and in the runaway he is almost caught by the giant who follows him down the enormous beanstalk. When Jack is down the beanstalk, he calls his mother for a large axe and cuts down the gigantic beanstalk down, killing the heavy giant. The end of the story has Jack and his mother living happily ever after with their new richness and the golden hen and the harp visit them.
SCENE BREAKDOWN.
Organization: The class should be split up into two groups, scenes 1 to 4 should be played by a first group and scenes from 5 to 7 for the second group.
Scene 1
In a farm landscape, the narrator introduces Jack. He is a good boy who takes care of his mom. He talks with his mom, about their poorness and the sale of the cow next day.
Scene 2
Next day, Jack is going to the town market to sell the cow. He suddenly finds a mysterious old farmer called Jimmy who buys the cow in exchange for what Jimmy says are magic beans.
Scene 3
Back home, Jack explains what he has done, but mom is really angry, and throw the beans out of the window.
Scene 4
Next day, the chorus explain what happen outside; Jack and his mother go out the farm and see the beanstalk. They are puzzle, and Jack decides to climb up the stem, founding a marvelous castle at the end of it.
Scene 5
Jack looks into the castle when the ugly grumpy giant comes singing so he is guided by the chorus to hide himself onto a wardrobe. The narrator explains how the dinner is. There, he can see the giant´s dining room where Holly the Hen and Molly the Harp complaint for their captivity lives. But the giant doesn´t mind this, he just want someone to sing for him and the golden eggs of the hen.
Scene 6After a while, when the giant goes to sleep, jack goes out the wardrobe and convince the harp and the hen to runaway with him and live in the farm. The giant wakes up and chases them. Suddenly, he bumps into a stone and falls to the farm dying. The chorus celebrates it.
Scene 7 The narrator tells how thing are doing in the farm. All the characters greet the audience and say good bye.
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