The Gingerbread Man
The Gingerbread Man is a play by David Wood.
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The original text
The play takes place on an antique kitchen dresser. The Gingerbread Man, newly baked by the Big Ones, meets Salt, Pepper and Herr Von Cuckoo, who lives in the cuckoo-clock. He has a sore throat which is ruining his “cuckoos”, thus threatening to land him in the dreaded dustbin. The Gingerbread Man’s efforts to help Cuckoo’s sore throat are hampered by the villainous scavenger Sleek the Mouse and by The Old Bag – an old tea-bag who lives in the tea pot on the top shelf.
First produced at the Towngate Theatre, Basildon in 1976.
The play is included in David Wood : Plays One (Methuen).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1984: Presented by CAPAB in the Nico Malan Theatre, directed by Eileen Thorns.
1994: Produced by the Dramatic Society of East London, directed by Michele Brandenburger.
Sources
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
https://www.davidwood.org.uk/plays/plays_the_gingerbread_man.htm
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