SYNOPSIS

George and Jim Morris, two English morris men, are travelling across all England talking with the good folk of town and countryside and gathering stories for their collection. The idea strikes them to launch into a story told to them by a gypsy woman; so they dive into their travelling costume basket and pull out bits and pieces to play a simple mouse whose 'friend' is a no good cat. Oh dear. What might be the outcome?

It’s then just a hop, skip and a jump into dressing up and playing out The Three Wishes in all its comic glory. But not before The Jester has introduced the story. Appetites whetted, George and Jim rush headlong into that great story about Jack and his mother and what happens when Fate forces them to sell their cow, Milky White.

At the end of the show, George and Jim come back to say ‘good bye’ in rhyming couplets to the children and parents and grandparents and teachers in the audience.

THE THREE WISHES

Here is a tale that is short and sweet, 

About a man and his wife and what they did eat. 

And a woodsman about to fell an oak 

Who heard a voice that pitiful spoke. 

It said:  “I will grant you wishes three,

If you will spare this good old tree.” 

Well, he wished for something tasty and hot 

And, by and large, that’s what he got.

CHILDREN: Do you know what the woodsman got?

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

Here is a tale that is short and tall; 

About the small that will climb  

And the great that will fall.  

It’s about a Beanstalk that reached the sky, 

Which Jack would climb to do or die, 

And a greedy Giant, who thought Jack would be tasty. 

Let’s hope Jack is too quick for the Giant so hasty.

CHILDREN: How will Jack's adventure end?

ENJOY!