Defending Goldilocks
Attorney Wombat To The Rescue!
As the school year slides into the chaos of the final few weeks, keeping track of the ‘Last ofs…’ becomes more challenging.
The last orchestra concert. The last recital. The last report card.
And the last school play. We’ve fallen way behind on writing about some of these happenings, and to be fair, elementary school theatre can have - how to put this diplomatically - a limited, interested audience… outside of the parents of those kids taking part of course.
But there are always lessons to be learned.
For example, why has Little Bean taken to debating and challenging EVERY SINGLE THING around the house - you know, aside from the fact that she’s a pre-tween.
Well, part of that stems from the fact that she’s Goldilocks’ lawyer. Her elementary school performed the short, farcical comedy, Goldilocks on Trail. The Ed Monk play puts the famous Goldilocks character on trial for breaking and entering and theft of porridge. The courtroom setting brings the three bears, the big bad wolf and others to sit in the witness seat. Goldilocks is defended by Attorney Wombat, AKA Little Bean, who said she wanted the role because it had the most lines.
She wasn’t kidding! And Goldilocks needed plenty of defending. One standout confrontation between Attorney Wombat and the Big Bad Wolf results in the wolf professing his love for Goldilocks! In another back and forth, Attorney Wombat gets the lead detective in the case, Detective Clorox, to admit he was bribed by doughnuts!
Attorney Wombat is the Columbo of the fairy tale world. I don’t want to spoil it for you, and will leave it to your imagination as to whether or not Little Bean succeeds in getting Goldilocks to beat the charges. Hint: My daughter usually gets her way.
Anyhow, after four performances over four days, Attorney Wombat was pretty tired. It’s rough going head to head with Papa Bear day after day and not feel a little burned out. Still, one hopes that some measure of lawyerly debate experience will stick. Just not when it’s time to take out the garbage.
What fun!!