Hansel and Gretel theatre for 3rd level

HANSEL AND GRETEL

• Narrator: Deep in the forest a man and his wife are talking. They are very poor and they have no food. The wife has a solution but the father doesn’t like it.
• Stepmother: Let’s leave the two children in the forest!!! We have no money and no food!
• Father: What are you saying??? No way!!!
• Stepmother: They can look after themselves so we can have some food!
• Father: I don’t like the idea…but I suppose it is what we have to do…
• Narrator: The children are listening; they are so hungry they can’t sleep. Gretel starts crying…
• Gretel: What can we do?
• Hansel: Don’t worry. I know what to do! Please don’t cry!
• Narrator: He goes to the garden and looks all around, then he picks up some pebbles. // The next day they go into the forest.  And then their stepmother said:
• Stepmother: Let’s stop for a while! Here’s a good place!
• Narrator: But the father is sad, there are tears on his face.
• Father:  Wait here and be careful!
• Narrator: The children wait quietly until the night arrived. Then Gretel was worried.
• Gretel: They are not going to come!
• Hansel: But I know how to go home! Let’s follow the pebbles!
• Narrator: And the children arrived home.
• Father: Children!!! You are at home!!!
• Stepmother: How can it be??? Arrrgggg. Tomorrow we’re going for another long walk!
• Narrator: The next day Hansel does the same but with pieces of bread. Then they stop again. 
• Stepmother: Let’s stop for a while! Here’s a good place!
• Narrator: But the father is sad, there are tears on his face.
• Father:  Wait here and be careful!
• Narrator: At night, the children are alone again and Gretel starts crying.
• Hansel: Don’t worry my sister. There’s bread on the ground, we can find our way home. Let’s go!
• Poor man: mmmm…. I’m so hungry!!! I’m starving!!! … I don’t have money and I can’t buy food! What can I do? Please God, Help me!!!... Look!!!!  What is this??? It’s BREAD!!! It’s incredible!!! Bread!!! Bread!!!
• Hansel: What? There’s no bread!!! What happened???... You!!! Where is our bread???
• Poor man: Bread? Which bread? I don’t know!
• Hansel: Yes!!! You have our bread! Now we don’t know how to go home!!! … Let’s walk this way!
• Poor man: Good luck! There is a bad man over there!!! Be careful! Bye bye!!!
• Gretel: I’m scared!
• Hansel: Don’t be scared! Look!!! There’s a house! What’s this? Is it ice cream?
• Gretel: Yes! Yum! I like ice cream! What’s this? Is it chocolate?
• Hansel: Ooooh, Yes, it is!!!
• Wizard: Ha ha ha!!! Look! My favourite food! CHILDREN! 
• Narrator: At the Wizard’s house.
• Wizard: Hello children. Who are you?
• Hansel: I’m Hansel
• Gretel: I’m Gretel.
• Wizard: This is my house. Do you like ice cream and chocolate?
• Hansel and Gretel: Oh yes, we do!!!
• Wizard: Please, come in. It’s lunchtime!  You can eat all you want!!! You can have ice cream, biscuits, sweets, white chocolate, dark chocolate, cakes…all you want!!!
• Narrator: The wizard gives a lot of food to the children. He wants to eat fat children.  One day, he decides to eat them!
• Wizard: I want to eat these children… Come over here, child. See if the oven is hot.
• Hansel: Yes, it is hot!
• Wizard: Now…GET IN THE OVEN!
• Hansel: No!!! YOU GET IN!  Quick Gretel, run!!!
• Narrator: Their dad and stepmother were sad without Hansel and Gretel, so they decided to go into the forest to look for them.
• Dad: Hansel!!! Gretel!!!
• Stepmother: Gretel!!! Hansel!!!
• Poor man: Hello! Are you looking for a girl and a boy?
• Dad: Yes! They are my son and my daughter!!!
• Poor man: They are lost! They are in the wizard’s house! It’s a very dangerous house!!!
• Dad: I’m not afraid!
• Stepmother: Where is the wizard’s house?
• Poor man: It’s next to the biggest tree in the forest!
• Narrator: Suddenly they listen to the children shouting…
• Hansel and Gretel: Dad!!! Mum!!!
• Dad: My son! And my daughter!!!
• Stepmother: I’m sorry children, I love you!!!
• Gretel: I’m happy now!!!
• Hansel: Me too!!! Come and dance!!!
• Dad: And sing!!!
• Poor man: Yes!!! Off to the theatre!!!
• All: “Off to the theatre, what fun that can be! Off to the theatre, come, sing and dance with me.
• We can watch the show, with the lights down low. We can dance and sing, we can all join in!"