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Folktale. By Rex Stephenson. Cast: 1m., 5w., extras (undertaker, cabbage-patch buyers, One-Eyed gang, trees, three ugly sisters, king, prince, etc.)
Grandma: Well then, I will tell you about Mutsmag.
Lights come up a bit; someone strikes the rocking chair and dulcimer.
This is a story about a girl named Mutsmag. (She enters.) Some people call her Muncimeg, and back over in England they call her Molly Whuppie, but it is all the same girl. Now she had two sisters, Poll and Betts. (They enter.) They were older than she was, and they didn't like Mutsmag a lick.
The two sisters pantomime trying to hit Mutsmag. She ducks and they hit each other. Sound effect: Cowbell. They fall. Mutsmag rises and smiles.
Now these three girls lived with their mother (Mother enters.) in a little house that had a cabbage patch. Our story begins when their mother is about ready to die.
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