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'The Twelve Months' by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber - additional information.


'The Twelve Months' by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber
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Period and Geography
Location: a non-specific location. Time Period: Now
Settings and Set Complexity
Number of Sets: 1
Setting: Living Room and Dining Room
Set Requirements: Backdrops/simple flats, Multiple levels and Multiple locations in one set
The script includes characters in the following age range(s):
Unspecified ages
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In addition to the text, the "Producer's Copy" of the Script includes the following:
A list of the required properties
Miscellaneous notes from the author
Style:
One-act play for junior/secondary school children, based on an Eastern European folk tale (translated by Antonia Barber). The author suggests a single set divided into three areas.
Synopsis:
Marushka, the young stepdaughter of a widow, is always being ordered around and berated when she questions her stepmother's unreasonable requests. As punishment, her stepmother asks her to leave the house in January and only return when she has found a bunch of Violets - flowers which only grow in April. She dutifully acccepts, only to stumble upon the meeting-place of the twelve months of the year. They agree to help her, but when she returns with violets, her stepmother has more tasks for her...

 
 

 
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