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Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 The Pied Piper
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A musical version of the original story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. A slight twist at the end regarding Limpy, the only child left after the Piper leads the children away.

Notes

  • Characters

    Four rats:

    1. Boss Rat: is black, wears a belt with cutlass or knife.

    2. Moll: is white, with a skirt frill round her middle and a diamond necklace.

    3. Grey Rat: in leather jacket, carries a bike-chain.

    4. Grey Rat: patch on one eye, red bandanna on head. Old gun?

    The Beadle.

    The Mayor.

    Corporation: 

    1. The Woman Member: if possible, tall and commanding presence.

    2, 3, 4. The Men Members.

    Limpy's mother: a slattern.

    Limpy: the lame boy, uses one crutch. Dressed in rags.

    The Pied Piper.

    Small parts for:

    1. Townswoman.

    2. Men.

    3. Children.

    Crowd scenes need townsfolk, rats, children.

    Scene

    The town square, as suggested. Tall houses all round with plenty doors to open. To one side, leading towards back, an ally-way giving view of river and hill beyond. Centre-back, a flight of steps leading up to a landing outside the Corporation Meeting-House, and folding doors to push back. Centre-front - a well, raised up on several steps and surmounted by a cross in simulated ironwork.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1970-1979
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Helen Haenke Collection Helen Haenke , 1955-1989 14265233 1955 archive

    The University of Queensland's Fryer Library holds a substantial collection of Helen Haenke's literary works. The collection includes plays, short stories, novels, poems, and prose, all in manuscript form. Several of these works were published, but only the manuscript and electronic text versions are included in the collection. 

    1955-1989
      1970-1979 .
      Extent: 11l.p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • The Helen Haenke Collection at the University of Queensland's Fryer Library holds one copy of 'The Pied Piper'. The script has been typed with a typewriter on pale paper. The paper is taller and narrower than most of the other plays in the collection, and seems to be in better condition than most of the other scripts.

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