script

=__**Script**__= __Scene 1:__ Two kids coming home from school, are arguing until they realise that their Mum isn't home. Take positions at computer/drawing(?) and start to speculate where their mum is. Maybe she's gone with Jack and Jill to fetch a pail of water....

(school bell rings and musical jingle plays overhead)

CHILD 1: Hurry up, open the door!

(kids burst on stage bumping into each other)

C1: oof! C2: Ugh, quit it. (takes hat or something of other child) C1: Hey stop it, give it back! [C2 taunts other child] C1: Hey! Stop it! Give it back! You're dobbed on!....MUM! MUUUUUM! He took my hat! C2: No! MUUM! She pushed me first!

(both yell for mum at the same time as they fight/tug on hat)

C2: ...Mum? C1: Mum?

They both stop fighting.

C2: Where is she?

(Both start looking around the house.)

Where could she be? I looked under her bed and everything!

I don't get it. She's normally home by now.

Maybe she got lost.

Don't be silly, Mum's don't get lost!

What if she took a wrong turn and ended up somewhere really weird that she didn't know. Remember that time when....

Maybe she (different suggestions)........

Maybe she got lost on her way to work and ran into Jack and Jill.

You think?!

Just imagine if she did!

[Kids get out their laptop/books and start to write/draw pictures]

__Scene 2:__ Jack and Jill. Mum asks Jill for helps because she is lost. Jill tells her that she is too busy to help her because she has to hurry back to her brother - they were going to get some water but she had to get the bucket. Could possibly have a scream/yell off stage that is Jack falling down the hill again, meaning that Jill has run off stage.

MUM walks on stage and looks around, feeling confused.

To herself: [carrying a map] Now I took a left then a right...then I walked straight...so I should be right about....[sighs] absolutely completely lost. Where am I? What is this place?

[spots a girl filling up a bucket on the side]

MUM: Excuse, little girl, can you help me...I don't seem to know where I am.

JILL: [walks past mother looking flustered and muttering] Bucket...water...

MUM: Little girl? I need some help getting home, do you think you could...

JILL: Help you? I'm much too busy. I was meant to meet my brother an hour ago but I forgot my bucket! Oh he's going to be so mad!

(Something)

Offscreen: Jack screams

JILL: Oh no! Jack! I'm coming! [runs off stage]

MUM: Wait! You forgot your...bucket. Sigh, what is this place?


 * 2 Kids talk about the story.**
 * Then what happened?**
 * Well she went walking in the forest, and in the clearing she saw a house with lights on, and decided to ask for directions.**
 * Then she knocked on the door, and you'll never guess who answered!**

__Scene 3:__ Goldilocks. Mum comes across a house and knocks at the door to ask for directions. Goldilocks is of no assistance as she has also come from afar. Goldilocks asks Mum if she could help her to make the just right porridge, but Mum politely refuses, stating that she is already running very late. Goldilocks gives Mum a piece of paper with directions and suggests that Mum goes and sees "this guy" - he knows everything.

MUM: Hello? Hello? Is anyone home?

GOLDILOCKS opens the door: Shhh... someone will hear you! Quickly, come inside! [drags in mother]

MUM: Whoa! I'm sorry to bother you but I really need some help. I trying to get back to Melbourne.

GOLDILOCKS: Puzzled: Melbourne? Is that near the gingerbread house on the other side of the kingdom?

MUM: Umm...

GOLDILOCKS: Nevermind. I'm from out of town as well...I'm just...er...housesitting at the moment. The owners are just about to come out of hibernation.

MUM: Hibernation?

GOLDILOCKS: It's not important. What's imortant is you help me find some porridge. All I can find are these boxes of Just Right! I don't understand! It should be here!

MUM: I'm sorry, I really don't have time for this, I have to meet my kids after school.

GOLDILOCKS: It will only take a moment! Please! I promise to help you if you help me!

MUM: Ok, [looks around] Oh here! Porridge!

GOLDILOCKS: Thank goodness! Wait. Did you here that?

MUM: Here what?

GOLDILOCKS: [listens] Oh my gosh! I think they're back!

MUM: Who?

GOLDILOCKS: Quick! We have to get out of here!

MUM: But you promised to help me!

GOLDILOCKS: Oh, alright. Here [gives a piece of paper] Go see this guy. I hear he knows the answer to just about everything....NOW RUN!


 * Kids talk.**
 * Could you imagine if the bears had found her there?! Well, what happened next? Where did Goldilocks send Mum?**

__Scene 4:__ Mum is reading her directions and makes her way to the Mad Hatters', and he is quite unhelpful - giving her incomprehensible directions and riddles. He gives her a cup of tea before he leaves an she begins to get very sad and unsure that she'll ever get home. He keeps calling her Alice...

MUM: Reading directions: Follow the path until you come to a fork in the road. Go left and...oh! Here it is, M. Hatter. Hello?

MH: Why hello dear! Welcome to my teaparty. You are awfully late Alice. Never mind, never mind.

MUM: Alice, why, no, my name is....

MH: TEA! Tea. What an awful host I am. Sit down. [pushes Mum to sit down and hands her tea]. Drink drink.

MUM: OH no, I can't stay, I was wondering if you had time to tell me how to get out of this place.

MH: Time! Why didn't you say so! I have hours and hours of time. [Pulls out a giant clock] Oh Alice, you should know better by now.

MUM: No, really, I must get home. Do you know the way.

MH: The way? Why I know everyway. Upways, Sideways, Whichways, Downways.

MUM: So how do I get out of here?

MH: [points different ways] Whichways of course. Milk! You need milk!

MUM: I don't understand. I have to go, which way is which ways?

MH: Go? But you just got here. A tea party is not a party without a party to keep the other party company. Sugar! [walks off to get sugar]


 * Kids: So as soon as the Mad Hatter turned his back Mum escaped and tried to find someone else to help her.**

MUM: What is this place. Oh it's hopeless! I'll never get home now!


 * Poor Mum. What if she never gets home?**
 * Oh course she'll get home. Because just when all hope is lost, a Charming Prince came along to save the princess.**
 * Ugh, charming?..is this going to be a love story?**
 * Fine, the strong, manly prince came along to save the day (prince puts on moustache)**

__Scene 5__ Mum sits down upset that she is lost when she is discovered by Prince Charming. Being the noble heroic that he is, he offers to rescue the 'Princess' (even though she is not like the princesses he normally rescues) is her foot fits in the slipper. Upon finding it does, he charges off screen with the mum to save her...

PRINCE: [looking at his reflection in his sword] Oh charming, you are looking quite handsome today. [sees Mum] What is this? A princess in need of rescue? [walks over to mum] Why hello there m'lady. What brings you to these woods. A pretty young thing like you should not be alone is the forest at night.

MUM: I know I know, I'm lost and I don't think I'll ever get home.

PRINCE: Lost!? Never fear, resuing damsels in distress is my specialty. You're not quite like the princesses I normally rescue. However, if the shoe fits...

Try and put on shoe and it fits.

Follow me!


 * Kids: And just like that, the prince helped Mum find her way home and she rewarded him with a kiss..**
 * Whoa whoa whoa. No. No kiss.**
 * Fine! And they shook hands and that was that.**

__Scene 6__ As the scene switches back to the kids you hear them finish the story (eg. and just like that, the prince helped Mum find her way back home and she rewarded him with a kiss...If we make it a boy and a girl the boy can object to the last bit and change it to a hand shake - it might be funny to juxtapose the imagination of a boy and girl). Mum and prince walk off stage and the kids chat about the fact that the prince should drop her off any minute. There's a knock at the door and the kids look shocked thinking it could have come true. Mum comes in looking frazzled carrying shopping bags, and explains that she got stuck at the shops/car wouldn't start... The kids show her pictures of their story and the mother comments on how important it is to have an imagination, and how they're creative.


 * So the prince should be dropping her off any moment now.**
 * [knock at the door]**
 * Gasp! Kids look amazed.**

Mum walks in carrying shopping. I'm so sorry I'm late, the traffic was awful, and I stopped off at the shops on the way home.

Kid: Shopping? That's it. We thought you never made it to work! We thought you were lost and met all these crazy characters!

Did we choose an ending/reveal?

If it's that we reveal to the audience, not the kids: They go off to bed and the mother is left on stage "You can't underestimate your imagination....you never know when it might come true....." (turns around and stuff is in her pockets, or in a slightly open backpack and the audience see it as she walks off.