Following the success of Sleeping Beauty, Park Theatre's annual Christmas show returns with their second instalment of The Chronicles of Waa. With original music, magic and plenty of laughter for the whole family, Jack and the Beanstalk is a tale of friendship, love and Tupperware: lots of Tupperware! In Gazoob, the land of the Giants, evil inventor Ms Grimm wants world domination and it seems there is nothing her lovely daughter Grenthel and Geoff, the smallest giant in the world, can do to stop her. Meanwhile in Nowen, a peaceful but poor Kingdom, Jack and his mum Tina struggle to pay the rent. To make matters worse, they have to get rid of their trusted cow, Daisy. When Grimm's evil plan lands at their feet, all seems doomed. But what will save the day and unite these two kingdoms? Jack's heroic deeds at the Nowenthian Sports festival? Tina's extensive knowledge of antique Tupperware? Or will the musical, Mariachi oracles known as `The Shepherds Gonzales' have the answer? The future of the Land of Waa is at stake!
This book is part of a book series called Modern Plays .
There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .
Jez Bond won the Channel Four Theatre Director Bursary, under which he trained at Watford Palace Theatre. In 2010, he founded London's Park Theatre, and took the reins as Artistic Director when it opened, to critical acclaim, in 2013. He was recently named in the Evening Standard's Power 1000 a list of the one thousand most influential Londoners. As a director his credits include Adult Supervision (Park Theatre); The Fame Game (Tour of Austria); and Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse). Mark Cameron is an actor and scriptwriter. Television credits include Waterloo Road; Eastenders; and The Roman Mysteries. Film includes D. I. Hackman in Scar Tissue (UK cinema release 2012); The Boss in The Boss (2012 Reed Festival short film winner);and Norman Hunter in The Damned United. Theatre includes the Dame in Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse); Chancer in Mathematics of the Heart (Theatre 503); and Dorante in The Game of Love and Chance (national tour).
This book contains the following story:
Jack and the Beanstalk
Fee fie fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread'. Lazy Jack lives with his poor mother in a little shack. They are so poor that one day she sends Jack off to market to sell their cow so they can buy food. On the way to market Jack meets a stranger who persuades him to part with the cow for some magic beans. When Jack returns home with no cow and no money his mother is furious and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the two awake to find that a huge beanstalk has gronw from the beans. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds a new land at the top complete with a castle and a very grumpy giant. Whilst the giant is asleep Jack steals a hen that lays golden eggs. On a second trip he steals bags of money. On the third trip he tries to steal a golden harp, but the harp calls for its master and the giant wakes up and follows Jack down the beanstalk. As soon as Jack reaches the ground, he sets to work to chop
