Rooster Play

In early December the youngest children performed a play based on the Ancient Chinese story of how the rooster lost his horns. Ladies and Gentleman.

We are glad you are here to watch our play. The play was a collaborative effort, with each child adding details until we told the story. The children spent weeks making their own costumes and props. The play was performed for the older students.

This is the story of how the rooster lost his horns.

It is a story from Ancient China.

Let me first introduce the actors in our play. Please welcome:

Syris is the sun

Mae is the rooster

Sam is the cow

Ben is a ghost

Greer, Brandon and Max are the dragon

Lola is the worm

Maia is the barn

Alaira and Gulliver are horses

Jonas is the scarecrow.

And I, Ace, am the narrator.

We wrote this story together.

Let’s get on with the show.

Once upon a time shadows moved in the barn. There are horses and cows in the barn.

Bar-B-Q, the rooster, had the prettiest horns in the world. The rooster was walking about admiring his horns. All of the animals were asleep and the dragon came closer and closer to the barn and he was breathing fire. The dragon lived on Mount Olympus.

It was a cloudy night and it was ready to rain. The scarecrow was scared. The rooster was going around in circles. The dragon said to the worm, “Ask for the horns. I want those horns.” Then it started to rain and it washed the dragon’s fire away. The rock glistened in the rain as the worm slipped by.

The worm said to the dragon, “Don’t breathe any fire.” Suddenly a bright light came on. It wasn’t the light it was the sun. The cloud went behind the sun. The worm asked the rooster if he could borrow his horns. The rooster replied, “Will you give them back to me?” The worm said, “Yes” The worm took the horns from the rooster and then the dragon flew away with the horns.

The rooster was very upset.  The rooster did not know what to do, so he decided to wait. The rooster saw the worm and yelled, “You nasty worm get back here.”  And he chased him around the barn. The rooster called at the dragon as he sailed by but soon the dragon was out of sight.

The End