THE GRUFFALO
The Gruffalo is
based on the story by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffer.
LEVEL 1
CHARACTERS: The
mouse, the owl , the snake, the fox and the Gruffalo.
SETTING: THE DEEP
DARK WOOD
OUTLINE:
A mouse
walks around the wood meeting animals.
The snake, the owl and the fox invite the mouse to their houses to eat,
but he rejects the offers and lies saying he is meeting the Gruffalo. At the
end he meets that imaginary animal he is talking about and gets very scary.
Finally, the witty mouse also lies to the Gruffalo and the monster goes away .
ORGANISATION:
9
children will perform the mouse (one child in each scene), 5 children will perform the Gruffalo, 2
children will perform the fox, 2 children will perform the snake, 2 children
will perform the owl, 2 narrators.
1 child
will be the co –director with the teacher, 1 child will be coordinator of
decorating the costumes. There will be 3 understudies.
CHARACTERS
OBJECTIVES:
The
mouse : he lies to every one. He gets
scared of his own lie. He doesn´t want to be eaten by The Gruffalo.
The
Gruffalo: he wants to eat the mouse.
The fox: he
wants to invite the mouse for lunch. He doesn´t want to be eaten by The
Gruffalo.
The owl : he
wants to invite the mouse for tea. He doesn´t want to be eaten by The Gruffalo.
The
snake: he wants to invite the mouse for a feast. He doesn´t want to be eaten by The
Gruffalo.
SCENES:
Scene 1-
The mouse walks around the wood. He meets the fox. The fox invites him to have
lunch in his underground house. Mouse rejects going to his house because he is
meeting someone special The gruffalo.
Scene 2-
The mouse meets the owl . The owl invites him to have tea in his treetop house.
Mouse
rejects the invitation because he is meeting The gruffalo .
Scene 3 –
The mouse meets the snake. Snake invites him for a feast in his logpile house.
Mouse
rejects going to the feast because he is having a feast with the Gruffalo.
Scene 4 –
Mouse meets the Gruffalo . He smartly lies the Gruffalo saying everyone is scared
of him.
Scene 5
– Mouse and Gruffalo meet the snake. Snake runs away immediately .
Scene 6
– Mouse and Gruffalo meet the owl . Owl flies away quickly.
Scene 7
– Mouse and Gruffalo meet the fox . Fow runs away immediately.
Scene 8
– Mouse said the Gruffalo he is hungry and his favourite food is Gruffalo
crumble. Gruffalo runs away.
Scene 9
– . The mouse is quiet and alone in the
wood.
Scene 10
– All the characters on the stage sing a song together .
Trying to get children involved in the whole process
of performing the play, today we have started brainstorming ideas for the
Gruffalo costume. Children have been given ideas and at the end, we will use
black plastic bags with small pieces of brown and orange paper, stuck to the
plastic bag. In the Arts and Craft lesson we have been painting the papers for
the Gruffalo costume. 
