Amusing Verse Selection

Extracts:

The Dentist and the Crocodile 

by Roald Dahl

Staging Suggestion for 5/6:

Introduction:

All in a line as below:

Narrator 1/Dentist/Crocodile/Crocodile/Dentist/Narrator 2 doubling as Lady

All: Today our group will be performing ..

Dentists: The Dentist (in character)

Crocodile: and the Crocodile (in character)

Narrators 1 & 2: by Roald Dahl

Dentists move back between then behind the 2 chairs set diagonally to front opposite each other

for the crocs, so quite close, facing upstage centre

Crocs sit on 2 chairs making croc mouth shape like this < >, mouth could be closed to begin with

Dentists

Croc on Chair<>Croc on chair

Narrator Downstage Stage R: Narrator 2 Downstage L

The Computer’s Swallowed Grandma by Valerie Waite

The computer’s swallowed grandma

Yes, honestly it’s true,

She pressed ‘control’ and ‘enter’

and disappeared from view.

Recipe for a School Trip

 (by Sue Cowling)

Ingredients:

30 children, washed and scrubbed, 29 packed lunches (no bottles), 3 teachers, an equal quantity of mums, 1 nosebleed, 2 fights

Schoolitis

By Brian Patten

You haven’t got a cough, You haven’t got mumps, 

You haven’t got a chill, Or any funny lumps.

You haven’t got tummy-ache, You haven’t got a fever,