The Red Merit Badge of Courage
by Nicolas Hoover

Name: The Red Merit Badge of Courage
Brand: Nicolas Hoover
SKU: 9780874403923

The Red Merit Badge of Courage Book Cover — The Red Merit Badge of Courage Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

One Act Features Children Bare Stage/Simple Set Comedy

Synopsis

The girls of Fireside Scouts Troop #182 are lost.

Their day trip to Yellowstone National Park went terribly wrong, and they don't have a scout leader or a map.

To make matters worse, they're at the mercy of a careless narrator who didn't go to the bathroom before the play started.

How will they survive the rain and the dark?

Can they find something to eat before something finds them to eat?

Will their story unravel at the hands of a stalling stage manager and two talking trees?

After letting off a few ear-splitting screams, these spunky girls gather their wits and their Fireside Scout Handbooks, and prepare themselves to earn the most difficult merit badge of all: The Red Merit Badge of Courage.

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Melissa “The Bookworm” Turner an avid reader	—	—	an avid reader
Elizabeth “The Dictionary” Matthews a walking dictionary	—	—	a walking dictionary
Kj “The Lip” Garcia a sarcastic wit	—	—	a sarcastic wit
Rose “The Compass” Peters can get anywhere with a map	—	—	can get anywhere with a map
Lucy “The Stomach” Anderson always hungryTHE MARSHMALLOWS (the youngest Fireside Scouts):	—	—	always hungryTHE MARSHMALLOWS (the youngest Fireside Scouts):
Andrea	—	—	—
Nora	—	—	—
Brianna	—	—	—
Red a cedar	—	—	a cedar
Needles a pineTHE ADULTS:	—	—	a pineTHE ADULTS:
Narrator very bad at his job	male	—	very bad at his job
Stage Manager very good at her job	female	—	very good at her job
Mrs. Henderson very old and practically blind (played by the Stage Manager)	—	—	very old and practically blind (played by the Stage Manager)
Elle “The Veteran” Sanders the most experienced	—	—	the most experienced