Lesson Plans

Five Great Plays about finding and using your own special powers

Each issue of D&T, we bring you five suggested plays for studying or mounting with your students. This issue we look at plays which explore magic and supernatural abilities, all of which are published and licensed for performance by Concord Theatricals.

Cast: 2f, 2m, 1m or f

Synopsis: It's the half term holiday and George Kranky is looking forward to a break from school when a letter from Grandma arrives announcing that she is coming to stay – that very day! Soon she is making George's life miserable with spiteful comments and demands for doses of medicine, so George decides to mix a new type of medicine for her. Shaving foam, shampoo, lipstick and chilli powder all go into the mixture, which makes Grandma grow and grow until she crashes through the farmhouse roof. Soon Dad comes up with a plan to use the medicine to make giant farm animals (and a fortune for the Kranky family). First George needs to remember the ingredients for his marvellous medicine, with a little help from the audience.

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