The Complete history of the world (abridged)
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The whole of history in 90 minutes!
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This show has 8 songs... |
The CD contains 16 tracks - each of the songs is recorded with and without a guide vocal. The vocal version will help the children learn the song and the plain backing track can be used for the actual performance. |
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| Old Father Time
Bruce Fortuna Hubert Maureen The Sumerians Gilgamesh Dumuzid Man-ishtishu The Babylonians Gobyras Cyrus Nabonidus Abilassar Sippara Ditana |
The Greeks Pythagoras Leon Theano Petron The Romans Spiculus Vitellius Celadus [Kela-dus] Scaurus Brian, a bear |
The Vikings Harald Ragnar Erik Godfrid Olaf The Aztecs Xicotencatl [She-coat-en-cattle] Teculihuatzin [Tek-olli-wat-sin] Acaxochitl [Aka-soh-sheetl] The Renaissance Francesco Melzi Leonardo da Vinci Unknown Florentine Lady |
The Age of Exploration Captain James Cook Aneas Aitken Alexander Weir Robert Taylor Sidney Parkinson The Industrial Revolution Nathanial Spoon Jasper Minton Obadiah Trollope George Parkinson Constance Pruitt Seymour Plank |
The Modern World Mr Ibuka Mr Morita Adam Osborne Harold Lee Martin Cooper Kozo Ohsone |
Doubling up is possible for most characters; it is quite feasible that this play could be performed by as few as 16 people or as many as 50.
An extract from scene 9 - the age of exploration
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Aitken: That’s a wonderful choice of name, if I may say so Captain!
Cook: It is rather, isn’t it? Aitken: And it will look so good on the map, along with the nineteen other islands you named ‘Cookland’. Cook: I think it will indeed look splendid. Weir: Will it not be a little confusing Captain? Cook: I beg your pardon? Weir: Don’t get me wrong; I like ‘Cookland’ as a name as much as the next man, but won’t it be a bit confusing for other navigators? Cook: I don’t see why Mr Weir. Weir: Well if the captain of a ship asks for a course to be plotted to Cookland, the navigator’s going to have to ask which one. Cook: And? Weir: And when he gets the answer: ‘The Cookland 12 miles to the north of Cookland and 30 miles to the east of Cookland’ it’s all going to get a bit confusing. Cook: Nonsense! Weir: It’s not nonsense, Captain. It’s going to be blooming awkward. Aitken: If the Captain wants to call the island ‘Cookland’ he can call the island ‘Cookland’. If you ever achieve the rank of captain you’ll have the same privilege. |
Sidney: (Nervously) Can we get back on the ship now? Cook: But we haven’t explored the island yet, Mr Parkinson. Sidney: I know, but there might be... Cook: Cannibals, Mr Parkinson? Sidney: Yes, sir. Cook: Were there cannibals on the last island, Mr Parkinson? Sidney: No, sir. Cook: You have worried about there being cannibals on every island we have visited, Mr Parkinson. Have we yet met a cannibal, Mr Parkinson? Sidney: Well...there was that one three islands ago. Cook: I don’t recall any cannibals on Cookland. Do you Mr Aitken? Aitken: Which Cookland was that, Captain? Cook: Um – number seventeen I believe. Aitken: A cannibal on Cookland number seventeen? I don’t think so, Captain. Sidney: You must remember! He was holding a hairy skull scooping out the brain. He even offered you some! Taylor: That was a coconut you fool. Sidney: No – I’m sure it was a cannibal. |
