Theatre Extra credit:
Play analysis:
Read a short play and answer these questions.
Title of play (Tale of the Mouse)
Name of author (Anita Gustafson)
place of first production or publishing house (Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. Denver Colorado)
description of setting, time and place (an African villiage)
description of characters (Narrator, Mouse, villiagers, Tiger, Lion, Arumburu, Ananse, Old Woman, Bull, Goat, Bird, Father, Boy)
description of problem characters must solve (Mouse is hungry, but afraid of being killed because she is so small and considered a pest. She must find a way to get her supper without being killed as a pest.)
What is normal at the beginning of the play (Mouse is hungry and small)
How does the main character solve the problem? (Mouse asks Arumburu to help her get something to eat.)
What is normal at the end of the play (Mouse becomes a storyteller so she will always be welcome the table)
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