![]() ![]() ![]() Tara School, New South Wales, Australia – 2019Īmerican School of Paris, Paris, France – 2019 Read a Sample of the ScriptĬost is $8.50 for this short digital play. Level of difficulty: 5/10 – easy to remember words, but obviously age dependent. Set: Simple – school stage setting of ”under the sea.” Suitable for: Infant school, primary school It is also suitable for students whose second language is English.Ĭast: 8 children plus chorus as ‘the waves’Īges of the actors: Suitable for children aged 5-8 years of age The play is written in rhyming verse, which makes it easy for younger children to remember and ideal for school productions for younger school children up to the age of eight. Each creature gets his or her turn to tell the others why they think they should be king. In this short play for children, all the creatures in the sea get together to decide who should be their king. My lord, upon the platform where we watch’d.KING OF THE SEA – SHORT PLAY FOR CHILDREN ![]() Sir, my good friend I’ll change that name with you: My father!–methinks I see my father. O, that this too too solid flesh would meltīut two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: She married.īut break, my heart for I must hold my tongue. Why, ’tis a loving and a fair reply: Be as ourself in Denmark. Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, do not for ever with thy vailed lids eek for thy noble father in the dust: Not so, my lord I am too much i’ the sun. How is it that the clouds still hang on you? Take thy fair hour, Laertes time be thine, but now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,–Ī little more than kin, and less than kind. Have you your father’s leave? What says Polonius? My dread lord, your leave and favour to return to France How now, Horatio! You tremble and look pale:īefore my God, I might not this believe without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes.Īs thou art to thyself: Let us impart what we have seen to-night unto young Hamlet for, upon my life, this spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak! Most like: by heaven I charge thee, speak! Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. Peace, break thee off look, where it comes again! What, has this thing appear’d again to-night? Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. The scenes flow into one another with no need for elaborate scene changes. The stage can be relatively bare, with a few rehearsal blocks, stools, or chairs. *Roles of Marcellus, Bernardo, Ghost, and Osric can be double cast with two actors playing the four roles. QUEEN GERTRUDE- Queen of Denmark, Hamlet’s mother, now husband to Claudius HAMLET- Son to the former king and Gertrude, and Nephew to Claudius POLONIUS- Lord Chamberlain, father to Laertes and Ophelia Excerpt from the play:ĬLAUDIUS- King of Denmark, now husband to Gertrude She holds her BFA in Theatre Performance from Salem State. Her work as an actor has given her the opportunity to perform all over Boston, including ArtsEmerson and the Museum of Fine Arts. She has been teaching for over a decade, often writing scripts to fit the needs of her students and classes. Jen Taschereau is the Drama Specialist at Wellan Montessori School in Newton, MA. If you need to extend this piece to put on a longer show, you can bookend your show by having students perform Shakespeare Sonnets, Shakespeare Death Quotes, or Hamlet Comedic Duologue. Note: The play itself is 11 pages long, and a general rule of thumb is that one page equals one minute of stage time, but Shakespeare tends to run longer. Shakespeare’s characters can easily be played by any gender. While all the characters are written with their original pronouns don’t feel limited in your casting. ![]() Hamlet meets a ghost of his dead father, who tells him that he was poisoned by Claudius and demands that Hamlet kill Claudius in revenge. Instead, his uncle Claudius seizes the throne and marries his mother, Gertrude. Hamlet is a young prince in Denmark who was supposed to become king when his father dies. This 30-minute adaptation of Hamlet uses Shakespeare’s language but is condensed to help young actors make easier connections. ![]()
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