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Feeble Fables: The Grasshopper and the Ant

$5.00 – $35.00Price range: $5.00 through $35.00

The relationship between the hardworking ant and the pot-smoking grasshopper is turned on its head in this twisted version of Aesop’s fable.

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SKU: 9063525-1-1-1-1-1 Categories: Flexible Length Plays, Plays, Plays in a Series Tags: 10 Minute Play, Comedy, Play in a Series, Short Plays
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Description

Bob Naquin
3 either
10 minute comedy

In the original Aesop fable, the moral of the story is “There’s time for work, and a time for play.” But in this twisted version, the pot-smoking grasshopper finds the time to play and work. Sort of.

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playwright

Bob Naquin

genre

Comedy

run time

10 Minutes

women

1, 2, 3

royalty

$15 per performance

theme

Animals and Pets, Fractured Fable, The Supernatural

men

1, 2, 3

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