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Comedy |
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Short, 50-60 minutes
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7 females, 6 males (12-19 actors possible: 5-13 females, 4-10 males) |
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Flexible. Actual fir branches may be used to create the forest, and the moon may be flown in if stage rigging allows.
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| Turning a holiday classic upside-down, How the Slug Stole Solstice is alternative fare for those who may not celebrate traditional Christmas or Hanukkah. In this delightfully wacky multi-generational comedy (in Seuss-like rhyme), a giant banana slug named Sally, accompanied by three hand-picked thugs, must battle her fear of the dark to make a journey through the spookiest of forests to stop Winter Solstice, and bring back the sun earlier than scheduled. As told around a campfire by Grampa Joe to his granddaughters Cricket and Boo, the story of Sally's adventures with a scary forest witch and an intellectual bumblebee (among many others) leads Boo to her own magical understanding of conquering one's fears. |
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| Original Bellingham Children's Theatre cast of How The Slug Stole Solstice, Bellingham, Washington (1996). Photo: Drue Robinson. |
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