TP- 21 MYTHS AND SUCH, PACKAGE 1
This package of performace skits has been produced, performed, and tested. The performances were a resounding success! If you want to perform the skits in your community, the author (and teacher-director), Lee Karvonen, is happy to stay in touch with you by e-mail and help with any questions or concerns you might have.
The skits included in this package intend to retell well-known Greek myths in a humorous and often inventive way. Some skits feature the original characters, while others feature modern storytellers trying to relate the myths to modern audiences. When they are mixed and matched, the fun begins!
This performance package is an ideal way to conclude a myth unit in your classroom - and to have fun doing that - OR to simply perform as a production for some special event.
This package, Package 1, is a 30-35 minute performance piece. It stands alone, but can be combined with MYTHS AND SUCH, Package 2, to create an hour's performance, if needed.
A cast of 30 is needed to perform Package 1, but some actors can take on two or three roles, if needed.
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PACKAGE 1 CONTAINS:
PACKAGE INTRODUCTION SHEET
PACKAGE OVERVIEW SHEET
MYTH VS. FAIRY TALE SKIT
APOLLO AND PHAETON SKIT
DAEDALUS AND ICARUS SKIT
GOLDEN APPLE OF DISCORD SKIT
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS
ODYSSEUS AND THE CYCLOPS
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
SKIT DESCRIPTIONS
MYTH VS. FAIRY TALE - In this short scene, one friend is trying to tell the other friend a myth. The other friend disputes the way the story is started, arguing that "once upon a time" is exclusive to fairy tales. From there, the argument progresses.
APOLLO AND PHAETON - In this version of the story where Phaeton coerces his father, Apollo, the sun god, to give him a chance to drive the golden chariot for a day, his mother, Apollo's mortal wife, ultimately intervenes to save the day.
DAEDALUS AND ICARUS - In this version of the story (when Daedalus and his son Icarus escape from Crete on wings made of feathers and wax), King Minos of Crete is being interviewed by a television reporter after the escape has taken place. The king is not a happy camper.
GOLDEN APPLE OF DISCORD - In this version of the story (when Eris, goddess of discord, is unhappy at being left out of social matters on Olympus, and starts the Olympian contest to determine the fairest goddess by tossing a golden apple into the midst of the goddesses with "to the most fair" written on it), the true story of how Paris picked Aphrodite, who then gave him Helen, which then started the Trojan War, is told.
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS - In this version of the story (when Jason and the Argonauts capture and return with the golden fleece), a modern story teller is attempting to relate it to a dude who, though apparently not too smart, is really looking at the story from another angle, and interrupts regularly to point this out.
ODYSSEUS AND THE CYCLOPS - In this version of the story (when Odysseus outwits the cyclops who has him and his men trapped in a cave), Odysseus again proves to be smarter, but without the poke in the eye for the cyclops, but still with the wine.
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE - In this version of the story (when Orpheus nearly gets his love, Eurydice, back from the dead), a modern story teller is regularly interrupted by the listener who insists on changing the complicated Greek names in the story to more modern and familiar ones.
For sample pages, please click HERE.
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Price $24.95
NOTE: The price includes:
1. One copy of the package, sent to you electronically by Scripts for Schools.
2. A duplication license granting you the right to duplicate the skits within your school of purchase.
Unlike many other publishers, Scripts for Schools charges no royalty fees when our scripts are used in your school or classroom for non-profit activities.
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If you wish to order this performance package of skits, record title and identification number, then click HERE for our online order form. Fill out form and click "SEND ORDER" at bottom. Shortly after, you will receive a PayPal invoice.
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