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| The audio is from a live radio production with students from Maude H. Trefethen Elementary in New Castle, NH and WUNH Radio of the University of New Hampshire. |
| The Simple Hans on-line script matches what the students actually performed. So what you hear and what you read will match. (This is a great way to learn English and to learn how to read.) It is NOT the same as the PDF script. I.E. As usual, our young actors changed a few of their lines while performing. And, to make it worse, Lishka did a really over-the-top German accent which caused everyone to eventually start laughing because the students didn't know she was going to be doing it until they were on-air. |
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Cast In Order Of Appearance: Narrator
NARRATOR One day, a boy named Hans leaves his house to visit a girl named Gretel. Gretel gives Hans a needle. HANS Good-bye, Gretel. GRETEL Good-bye, Hans. NARRATOR Hans sticks the needle into a passing hay-cart and follows the cart home. HANS Good evening, Mother. Gretel gave me a needle. MOTHER Where is the needle, Hans? HANS I stuck it in a hay-cart. MOTHER That was stupid, Hans. You should have stuck the needle in your sleeve. HANS Never mind. I’ll do better next time. NARRATOR The next day Hans again goes to Gretel. Gretel gives Hans a knife. HANS Good-bye, Gretel. GRETEL Good-bye, Hans. NARRATOR Hans sticks the knife in his sleeve and goes home. HANS Good evening, Mother. Gretel gave me a knife. MOTHER Where is the knife, Hans? HANS Stuck in my sleeve. MOTHER That was stupid, Hans. You should have put the knife in your pocket. HANS Never mind. I’ll do better next time. NARRATOR The next day Hans again goes to Gretel. Gretel gives Hans a young goat. HANS Good-bye, Gretel. GRETEL Good-bye, Hans. NARRATOR Hans ties the goat’s legs and puts it in his pocket. When he gets home, the goat has suffocated and is dead. HANS Good evening, Mother. Gretel gave me a goat. MOTHER Where is the goat, Hans? HANS I put it in my pocket. It died. MOTHER That was stupid, Hans. You should have put a rope around the goat’s neck and brought it home. HANS Never mind. I’ll do better next time. NARRATOR The next day Hans again goes to Gretel. Gretel gives Hans a big slab of bacon. HANS Good-bye, Gretel. GRETEL Good-bye, Hans. NARRATOR Hans ties a rope around the bacon and drags it home. The dogs come and eat up all the bacon. HANS Good evening, Mother. Gretel gave me a big slab of bacon. MOTHER Where is the bacon, Hans? HANS I tied a rope around it and dragged it home. The dogs ate it. MOTHER That was stupid, Hans. You should have carried the bacon on your head to keep it from the dogs. HANS Never mind. I’ll do better next time.
NARRATOR The next day Hans again goes to Gretel. Gretel gives Hans a baby cow. HANS Good-bye, Gretel. GRETEL Good-bye, Hans. NARRATOR Hans puts the baby cow on his head and the baby cow kicks his head all the way home. HANS Good evening, Mother. Gretel gave me a baby cow. MOTHER Where is the baby cow, Hans? HANS I set it on my head and it kicked my face. MOTHER That was stupid, Hans. You should have led the baby cow with a rope and put it in the barn. HANS Never mind. I’ll do better next time. NARRATOR The next day Hans again goes to Gretel. She is depleted of gifts. GRETEL Good day, Hans. Have you finally brought me something? HANS No. GRETEL Then I will go with you. NARRATOR Hans takes Gretel, ties her with a rope, and leads her to the barn next to his house. Then he binds her to the stall inside. HANS Good evening, Mother. MOTHER Good evening, Hans. Where have you been? HANS With Gretel. MOTHER What did she give you this time? HANS Nothing. She came with me. MOTHER Where have you left Gretel, Hans? HANS I led her by a rope and then tied her to the stall in the barn. I even scattered some grass for her. MOTHER That was stupid, Hans. You should cast friendly eyes upon her. HANS Okay. NARRATOR Hans goes to the barn, cuts out all the barn animal’s friendly
- and casts them upon Gretel.
NARRATOR Gretel then becomes angry, tears herself loose and runs away screaming into the forest.
HANS Oh, never mind. I’ll do better next time.
NARRATOR Oh gee whiz, you guys. This is Grimmly Speaking, not Fairy Tales for the Faint Hearted.
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