Jack & The Beanstalk

This is the traditional story of Jack and the Beanstalk with the usual characters (and some more unusual) Mother Betty, Jack, Jill, Silly Simon, Squire Root, Right Guard, On Guard and of course the giant. It is imaginatively re written with witty, family friendly dialogue and plenty of opportunities to sing songs and engage the audience with a script that easily scales up or down as the staging demands. Jack lives with his mother Betty Bitsnbobs, his brother Silly Simon and of course his cow Daisy in a town called Poverty. It was quite prosperous until Squire Root lost his daughter and then his will to do anything else other than be mean to everyone. So it is up to the resourceful Mother Betty, who is the squire’s help, to ‘acquire’ food from his table to help feed the villagers. This though isn’t enough and in the end Mother Betty decides that Buttercup has to go. Jack and Simon take the cow to market but before they get there they meet a fairy who offers them five magic beans for the cow, which Jack accepts. Then follows the usual story of the beanstalk and Jacks encounter with the giant. Whilst in the giant’s castle he meets Jill the squire’s daughter who has been held there by the giant for many years, the three blind mice, the two guards Right Guard and On Guard and the giant’s wife. Jill guides Jack to the treasures in the castle and he promises to help her escape. But with a golden harp that bursts into song at the slightest nudge their escape is almost undone. However, with the help of the two guards who make a deal with Jack they all eventually escape the clutches of the giant with the gold, the goose and the harp. Then, the ever forward thinking, Silly Simon, helps to dispatch the giant.