And the show starts........

                              WE START PREPARING THE PLAY 

                             First contact with the play : Storytelling

                                         Checking understanding and vocabulary

Presenting the story

THE GRUFFALO OUTLINE

                                              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 .