Synopsis

The Bad Children

$9.99

Shirley Jackson & Allan Jay Friedman

Published by Dramatic Publishing

Shirley Jackson has written a modern fairy tale in which Hansel and Gretel are "problem children" (i.e. brats) and the witch is a charming old girl with a college degree in witchcraft

The play begins as the witch wakes up on a miserable rainy day in the forest and exclaims, "Such a day - makes you glad to be alive"

Then she gets into an argument with the second-class enchanter, which is interrupted by the arrival of the much-abused parents of Hansel and Gretel, followed closely by the little fiends themselves

They haven't the slightest interest in anything that's useful

Hansel and Gretel find the witch's gingerbread house and start tearing it to pieces

The children are so eager to push the witch into the stove that it makes the old girl terribly nervous!

Cast of 7 or more

Book and lyrics by Shirley Jackson. Music by Allan Jay Friedman

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