2020: Grizelina’s Gift

Director’s Notes

The Junior Fenceline Theatre Company this year was tremendously successful. It involved no less than 38 Year 5 and Year 6 students who did a splendid job performing on stage over two nights to their enthusiastic and appreciative audiences. The students worked on their understanding of audience’s response to action and their own comic timing.

Synopsis

Grizelina’s Gift is a play about a kingdom struggling with drought and a desperate king who hopes that his daughter’s marriage may help them all. Suitors come from far and wide bringing gifts to impress Grizelina, but none appear to do that. Her maids and servants believe she just likes opening presents. The kingdom is fast running out of food and although Prince Cornell tries to share a wonderous gift, Princess Grizelina is unimpressed. You see Grizelina has been spoilt and has got carried away with getting gifts. She no longer cares who they are from and to her own detriment she misses the greatest gift her Kingdom could receive and that was the opportunity to rebuild after a terrible drought. Grizelina’s Gift is about  looking beyond the superficial.