The Town Mouse and Country Mouse
by Vicky Ireland

Play script.

A feisty enactment of the popular tale of a country mouse in a great city, turned into an irresistible play which became a national success in England.

Cast of 2 men, 3 women for creation of 8 roles.

Highly recommended in the ingenious "Story Book" setting described in the text.

William Boot, a country mouse, bored with rural life at his grandmother's house, Toecap Cottage, is visited by his city cousin, Monty, and learns that he has inherited Tallyhoe Lodge in London.

Joyfully, William departs with Monty and runs a gauntlet of adventures -- among them a dangerous cat, poisons, traps, the wiles of two tricky twin mice, Snowey and the malicious Silver.

At last, a wiser William returns to Toecap Cottage, grateful to settle down in his rural paradise.

An assured success for young audiences when imaginatively staged, as both Liverpool's Merseyside Young People's Theatre, and London's Polka Children's Theatre proved.