The Great Cross-Country Race or The Hare and the Tortoise
Adapted by Alan Broadhurst.
Product Code: GA2000
Full-length Play
Drama
Cast size: 5 to 7m., 5 to 6w., up to 9 either gender.
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Synopsis
This play from England is a lark, a merry chase, peopled with human-like animals who make better sense than people. Assembled for Sports Day, the animals cannot find anybody to compete with the fleet hare in the cross-country race until the slow-moving tortoise agrees to challenge him. In the course of the race, the scatter-brained hare tends to get diverted by his encounters with members of the human race—stopping to gorge on a fisherman's picnic lunch, getting trapped in the urban-Notcouths' poaching bag, pausing to spy on a pair of "soppy dates," getting pinned up by the ears to Mrs. Stainer's clothesline. Meanwhile, the tortoise plods steadily and relentlessly on to the finish line. Only the animals speak intelligible language. The humans' gobble-de-gook is as incomprehensible to us as to our animal friends.
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code GA2000
- Minimum Cast Size 12
- Pages of Dialogue 56
- Min. Royalty Rate $90.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 85 min
- Staging One ext. set, with interchanging set pieces.
Categories
- Target Audience Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
- Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA
- Genre Drama
- ISBN(13) 9780876021330
Susan Burge, Lynn Lucas Middle School, Willis, Texas