GINGERBREAD
AN UKRAINIAN FOLK-TALE
Characters: Granddad, Granny, Gingerbread, a hare, a wolf, a bear, a fox.
Granddad: I am so tired, tired. So many things I did.
To the forest, to the yard, here, there, everywhere.
Even haven't got a pear. Granny, what about food?
Granny: What about food?
There is no food at all.
Will you wait another call?
Granddad: Granny dear, listen,
Do you hear mouse near?
Will you go there quickly
And on the shelves, on the shelves
Take some flour for gingerbread?
Granny: Will you go to the river
And some water will you bring for gingerbread?
I shall go, I shall go,
I shall take some flour for gingerbread.
Granddad: There's water, cold water.
Granny: Pour it here.
Granny sings:
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta,
He is my bridegroom.
I am his bride. May's here.
Marriage is quite near too.
Granddad: Put it quickly in the oven!
Granny: Will you wait? Will you wait?
For a sweetie gingerbread.
Granddad: I can't even imagine that the oven can make it itself.
Granny appears.
Granny: Why are you searching for wonders?
Better to make it yourself.
Granny and Gingerbread appear on the stage.
Granny: Look, What a nice gingerbread!
Granddad: Wow!!!
Granny: Oh, God! It’s hot. Let’s go for a walk.
It’s hot, it’s very hot, let’s stop and go for a walk.
Gingerbread: In the oven I was baked . I am wanted to be eaten. It’s better to run away.
Granny and Granddad appear.
Granny: Granddad, see he ran away, even didn’t say good day.
Granddad: Oh, it’s you who said to wait, and now there’s nothing to wait. Our dinner ran away.
Granny: Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go after him.
Granddad: Oh dear, say it good bye.
They go away and Gingerbread rolls on the stage.
Gingerbread: I am found on the shelf. I am rosy, I am funny. I am a rosy gingerbread. I am funny gingerbread.
A hare appear.
Hare: I am a grey hare, I run everywhere, I hear with my ears, I eat with my teeth, You are so sweet, I want to eat you.
Gingerbread:I don’t want to be a dinner, I ran away from Granny and Granddad, I am not afraid of you and I run away too.
Hare: Stop!!!
They run around the stage to music
Gingerbread: You may run all day but never catch me.
He leaves the stage to music then appears again.
Gingerbread: I am found on the shelf. I am rosy, I am funny. I am a rosy gingerbread. I am funny gingerbread.
Wolf appears on the stage to music.
Wolf: I am a wolf, angry and hungry, I am a hungry wolf, I am angry wolf, I want to eat you.
Gingerbread: I don’t to be a dinner, I ran away from Granny and Granddad, I ran away from hare, I run away from you.
They leave the stage.
Gingerbread: I am found on the shelf. I am rosy, I am funny. I am a rosy gingerbread. I am funny gingerbread.
Bear appears on the stage.
Bear: I am brown bear, I like honey very much, You are so lovely and I want to eat you.
Gingerbread: : I don’t to be a dinner, I ran away from Granny and Granddad, I ran away from hare, I ran away from wolf. I run away from you.
They leave the stage. Gingerbread appears again.
: I am found on the shelf. I am rosy, I am funny. I am a rosy gingerbread. I am funny gingerbread.
Fox comes to music.
Fox: Have you ever heard of fox? I say you will be eaten now.
Gingerbread: : I don’t to be a dinner, I ran away from Granny and Granddad, I ran away from hare, I ran away from wolf. I ran away from Bear. I run away from you.
Fox: You are singing so sweetly, sorry, sorry, I can’t hear you, Will you sit on my tongue and sing your sweetie song?
Gingerbread: I am found on the shelf. I am rosy, I am funny. I am a rosy gingerbread.
Fox: Gingerbread……..
He ran away from Granny and Granddad,
He didn’t want to be a dinner, But he sat, oh how tasty he was.
The end.
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