Far from the Madding Crowd Play

Description

Far from the Madding Crowd Play – by Thomas Hardy, adapted by Sue Russell. This script is one of a collection available from this web site.

Cast of 5 or 30!

• • • Narrator
    • Bathsheba
    • Gabriel
    • Troy
    • Boldwood

As there are 6 scenes (not including the introduction) in which all four characters plus Narrator appear, this could be read by a class of 30, dividing the class into six groups of five; or just one group of 5 speakers.

Reading Time:

Around 30 minutes. The first 3 scenes are around 5 minutes reading time, the last 3 a little less – around 3 minutes.

Sample Text:

Scene 4 A Wood not far from Bathsheba’s Home

Narrator:         (To Bathsheba) So. Of everything we have heard so far, this for me is the bit I find most puzzling. How could you, an intelligent woman, have been so duped? So taken in?

Boldwood:      I think we’d all be interested in the answer to that!

Bathsheba:     (Shaking her head) You know? I really have no idea!

Troy:                Oh come, come, my dear! Don’t be so bashful! We both know I swept you off your feet

Bathsheba:     (Interrupting) What? With your charm and good looks?

Troy:                Precisely!

Bathsheba:     I was being sarcastic!

Troy:                Oh, I don’t think so. You fell for me hook, line and sinker!

Bathsheba:     It was madness! To this day I don’t understand what came over me!

Boldwood:      Devil’s work!

Gabriel:           Fancy falling for a bit of fancy sword work!

Troy:                Er, highly skilled I’ll have you know! But yes, it certainly seemed to do the trick!

Bathsheba:     Oh stop, please! To think I could have fallen for all that bravado

Gabriel:           And hot air! Definitely not your finest hour!

This script is one of a collection available from www.plays-r-ussell.com :

KS III and IV – including the works of such writers as Charles Dickens, H.G. Welles, Robert Lewis Stephenson, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen and Emily Bronte

• • • Treasure Island
    • The Time Machine
    • Persuasion
    • Wuthering Heights
    • The Happy Prince, Selfish Giant etc
    • Dickens Classics (Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Oliver, A Tale of Two Cities and a collection of Christmas novellas)