The Gingerbread Man
by David Wood

Name: The Gingerbread Man
Brand: David Wood
SKU: 9780573050428
Rating: 4.5 (5 reviews)

The Gingerbread Man Book Cover — The Gingerbread Man Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Interior Set

Synopsis

A musical play in two acts about the nighttime activities of various objects that reside on a kitchen counter.

Includes parts for four men and two women.

Press Reviews

"Worth travelling miles to see."
— BBC Kaleidoscope

"The perfect children’s play."
— Time Out

"How the children loved it. It was clear they were not merely engrossed with the goings-on on stage, but in many cases almost beside themselves with excitement … a superb success."
— Birmingham Post

"No one knows better than David Wood how to excite a child’s interest and imagination and not for nothing has he earned the title of ‘the National Children’s Dramatist’, a title fully deserved on the evidence of his GINGERBREAD MAN … rapturously welcomed by a large and vociferous audience of youngsters… for two hours of sheer enchantment this show would be hard to beat."
— Aberdeen Press and Journal

"…splendid … the company succeed in stirring the loudest audience participation I have ever heard and, much more remarkable, commanding the most absolute breath holding silences."
— The Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
HERR VON CUCKOO The Swiss-made cuckoo in the cuckoo clock. He wears leder-hosen.	male	—	The Swiss-made cuckoo in the cuckoo clock. He wears leder-hosen.
SALT A salt cellar, based in design on the blue-and-white horizontal striped variety, thus making him look like a sailor, and indeed that's how he sees himself.	male	—	A salt cellar, based in design on the blue-and-white horizontal striped variety, thus making him look like a sailor, and indeed that's how he sees himself.
PEPPER A well-groomed, svelte, elegant female pepper-mill.	female	—	A well-groomed, svelte, elegant female pepper-mill.
THE GINGERBREAD MAN Who looks like what he is!	male	—	Who looks like what he is!
THE OLD BAG An elderly, short-tempered, tea bag, who lives on the shelf, inside a cottage-style teapot.	—	—	An elderly, short-tempered, tea bag, who lives on the shelf, inside a cottage-style teapot.
SLEEK, THE MOUSE An American gangster-style villain. Not as smooth as he'd like to appear.	—	—	An American gangster-style villain. Not as smooth as he'd like to appear.
THE VOICES OF THE BIG ONES These can either be pre-recorded or doubled by other members of the cast. They are the voices of the family who own the house in whose kitchen and on whose dresser the action takes place.	—	—	These can either be pre-recorded or doubled by other members of the cast. They are the voices of the family who own the house in whose kitchen and on whose dresser the action takes place.