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The Red Merit Badge of Courage

Short Play, Comedy  /  1w, 1m, 9girl(s), 2any gender (youth)

Nicolas Hoover

The girls of Fireside Scouts Troop #182 gather their wits and their Fireside Scout Handbooks, and prepare themselves to earn the most difficult merit badge of all: The Red Merit Badge of Courage.

The Red Merit Badge of Courage

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m, 9girl(s), 2any gender (youth)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Theatre for Young Audiences
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences, Children (Age 6 - 10)

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Summary
The girls of Fireside Scouts Troop #182 are lost. Their day trip to Yellowstone National Park went terribly wrong, and they don't have a scout leader or a map. To make matters worse, they're at the mercy of a careless narrator who didn't go to the bathroom before the play started. How will they survive the rain and the dark? Can they find something to eat before something finds them to eat? Will their story unravel at the hands of a stalling stage manager and two talking trees? After letting off a few ear-splitting screams, these spunky girls gather their wits and their Fireside Scout Handbooks, and prepare themselves to earn the most difficult merit badge of all: The Red Merit Badge of Courage.
Performing Groups

FIRESIDE SCOUTS TROOP #182:
ELLE “THE VETERAN” SANDERS - the most experienced
MELISSA “THE BOOKWORM” TURNER - an avid reader
ELIZABETH “THE DICTIONARY” MATTHEWS - a walking dictionary
KJ “THE LIP” GARCIA - a sarcastic wit
ROSE “THE COMPASS” PETERS - can get anywhere with a map
LUCY “THE STOMACH” ANDERSON - always hungry

THE MARSHMALLOWS (the youngest Fireside Scouts):
ANDREA
NORA
BRIANNA

TWO TREES:
RED - a cedar
NEEDLES - a pine

THE ADULTS:
NARRATOR - very bad at his job
STAGE MANAGER - very good at her job
MRS. HENDERSON - very old and practically blind (played by the Stage Manager)


  • Setting Yellowstone National Park
  • Additional Features No intermission

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  • Minimum Fee: $65 per performance

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Nicolas Hoover

Nicolas Hoover
Nicolas Hoover is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer from Seattle, WA. His work has appeared in [untitled], Fringe Magazine, and Breadcrumb Scabs. Nicolas was also a semi-finalist for L Magazine‘s Literary Upstart competition, and won first place for the Writers’ Weekly 2 ...
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