The Wolf and the Four Lambs

Adapted story by: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

THE CHARACTERS:
Mother Sheep

: Loving and caring mother

Wolf

: Cunning and very determine

Lamb1

: The eldest and the guardian of his siblings

Lamb 2

: Elder brother, firm and always listen to the mother

Lamb 3

: Elder sister, loving and caring

Lamb4

: The youngest sister, pampered and very close to mother

Baker / Shopkeeper : Greedy and follows the needs of his customers

Narrator
Narrator:
Once upon a time in a thick jungle near a small country, there was once an old mother sheep
that had four little cute lambs. One day, the old mother sheep wanted to go into the woods to
get food for her lambs. She was ready to leave but before leaving she reminded her kids to look
after themselves carefully.Before she headed to the door, she called all her kids to sit around
her.
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SCENE 1 (At Home)
(The mother sheep is preparing to go out to look for some food. She is carrying a basket,
wearing her favourite scarf on her head and dressing casually. Her kids were doing their own
works around the living room happily)
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Mother

: (with loving voice) Come here childrenI need to say something

before
I leave. Hurry up dear..!

Lamb 1,2,
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3 and 4

: Yes mum! We are coming now. (all of them running to their mum and
sitting in front of their mom)

Mother

: (sitting on the chair and says)

: Dear children, I am going into the woods now. So, be careful not to let
any strangers into the house especially to the bad wolf. Remember
kids. Do not open the door while I am away. If the old wolf comes into
our house, he will eat you all up.

Lamb 1

: But mum, how we want to recognize the wolf?

Mother

: Oh! Thats easy. You can easily recognize him by his rough voice and
his black feet. (acting out how the rough sound and show what the
paw is to her children)

Lamb 2

: Mum, we promise we will be very careful not to let the old wolf in.

Lamb3

: Don`t worry about us. We will be safe. You should take care of
yourself, too.

Lamb 4

: We love you mum. Come back quick, please (with pampered voice

and kisses
her mothers hand lovingly)
Mother

: I will, children. (she kisses the 3rdand 4thlambs, then gets up from the
chair and walks towards the door.)
: Goodbye, children. I love you.

(Lamb 1, 2, 3 and 4 follow and send their mother to the door and say goodbye)
Narrator:
So, the old sheep went on her way into the dark woods. She had not been gone
long when there came a loud knock at the door.
Wolf

:(knocking the door gently and pretending to act like the mother

sheep)
Open the door, my dear children. I have something for each of you.

(Lamb1, 2, 3 and 4 looking at each other surprisingly and say)

Lamb 4

: That voice shouldnt be our mum. It sounds really different.

Lamb 3

: Yes! Its the rough sounds like what mum told us just now.

Lamb 2

: Remember what our mum says to us. Dont open the door! (in a firm
tone)

(Lamb 1 goes to the door and shout angrily to the wolf)

Lamb 1

: We will not open the door. Our mothers voice is soft and gentle.

Lamb 2

: Your voice is rough. You are the bad ugly wolf!

Lamb 3

: Yes! You are really bad. Go away!

(Lamb 1, 2, 3 &4 sing Go Away, Go Away together with the audience)

Wolf

(The wolf slowly moves from the door and says;)

: I must find some ways to fool them. I must change my voice. But
how..?
(walking and thinking for some idea)
: (with glad voice) Yes! I know how. I better be quick to the shop to buy
some
chalks. (grinning and walking quickly away to the shop)

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SCENE 2 (At the Shop)
Narrator:
The old wolf ran away to a shop, where he ate a piece of white chalk to make his
voice soft.
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Shopkeeper : Good morning Mr. Wolf. How can I help you?
Wolf

: Mr. Shopkeeper, give me all your chalks in your shop. I want to eat all

of them!
Shopkeeper : (looking surprisingly at the wolf he says) You want all the chalks?
Okay, Ill get
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them for you now.

: (The shopkeeper walks happily to the back of the shop and carries
two big boxes of chalk and hands in the box to the wolf))
: Here you are Mr. Wolf. Enjoy eating your chalk!

Wolf

(The wolf takes the box of chalk and sits on the floor while saying
something to himself)
: I must eat all these chalks. I wonder how my voice would be when I
talk to the stupid sheep later. (he laughs loudly and happily while
eating the chalks )

Narrator:
After eating some chalks, the wolf then went back to the sheeps house and
knocked at the door.
Wolf

: (pretending to be like mother sheep) Open the door for me, my dear
children. Your dear little mother is back, and has brought every one of
you something from the woods.

(Sheep 1, 2, 3 and 4 are looking at each other and say;)

Lamb4
Lamb 1

: (says nervously) The bad wolf again! What should we do now?

: Calm down. I know what to do. Everybody gets around me quick!
(Sheep 2, 3 and 4 quickly go behind their big brother worriedly)
: (with firm voice) If you are our mother, put your paw on the window,

so that we
can see it.
Lamb 2

: (with firm and angry voice too) Yes! Put your paw now. We want to

see it.
Wolf

: Ok dear. Wait a minute. I will put my paw now.

Narrator:
The wolf places his paw on the window bay and the three kids look at it suspiciously.
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They take three steps back and hold their hands together frighten
When the wolf had done this, all the little sheep said.
Lamb1

: (shouts angrily) No! You are not our mother. We will not open

the door.
Lamb 2

: Our mothers paws are white but yours are black.

Lamb 3

: (ferocious voice) Go away you bad wolf!

Dont you dare to come

again.
Narrator:
The wolf stepped away from the house angrily. He needs to find other ways to trick
the clever lambs. Walking angrily to and fro he kept thinking until suddenly he got a
very brilliant idea.
Wolf

: (happy tone) I need to go to the baker to mend my paws. Better hurry

up now.
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SCENE 3 (At the Bakers Place)
Narrator:
The wolf arrived at the bakers place and he was pretending like he had an injured
paw. He greeted him fiercely and said.
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Wolf

: Mr. Baker, put some flour on my paw, I have sprained my foot. Rub

some
dough on it for me.
Narrator:
The baker was so afraid of the wolf that he did not want to do as he was told. The
baker says to himself.
Baker

: The wolf wants to deceive someone, Im scared. Im scared. Why

must I help
him? Why must I help him?

Wolf

: (The wolf goes closer to the baker and places his paw on the table)

Baker

: (looking at the paw suspiciously and says)

As you wish, I will rub your paw with my dough and sprinkle it with
some flour. Hope you will get well later.
(showing his unsatisfactory face while putting the dough around the
wolfs paw carefully, he thinks of something)

Wolf

: (with angry tone) What are you wondering about. Quick sprinkle some
white flour on my paw for me. Or I will eat you up now!

Baker

: (with scared voice) Yes, yesI will do it now as you requested, sir.

Narrator:
The wolf smiles broadly as he saw how scared was the baker of him. He then paid
him and the wolf went for a third time to the lambs house.
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SCENE 4 ( At The Lambs House Near The Window)
Narrator:
When the wicked wolf stood in front of the sheeps door, he knocked again and
again on the door and says.

Wolf

: Open the door, dear children, I am your mother.

(All the four lambs know the wolfs voice and stay together behind the window to
see the wolfs paw)
Lamb 1

: Show us your paw.

Lamb 2

: Yes, now!

Wolf

: Okay dear, please come to the window now. I want to proof to you
that I am really your mother.

Narrator:
So the wolf put his white paw on the window. When the 4 th little lamb saw that it
was white, she thought that was really her mother and went to the door to open it.
Lamb 4

: Come in, mother. (she goes to the door and opens the door widely)

Wolf

: Ok darling, Im coming now. (The wolf takes off his blouse and smiles
happily at them when he enters the house)

Lamb 1

: Everybody! Hide yourselves quick! The wolf is going to catch us.

Lamb 2

: I am going behind the bed!

Lamb 3

: Im going behind the door!

Lamb 4

: Im going to hide under the blanket!

Lamb 1

: Im going behind the chair!

Narrator:
The wolf laughed happily and ran to catch the lambs. The wolf found them all, and
with no delay he swallowed them down his throat, one after the other. However, he
did not find the youngest lamb, the one who was under the blanket.
After satisfying his appetite, he went outside and lay down under a tree in the green
meadow and soon fell asleep.
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SCENE 5 (AtThe Lambs House)
Narrator:
Later that evening, the old mother sheep came home from the woods and saw the
tables and chairs were not in their place. Everything was scattered in that house.
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Mother

: (says sadly) Oh my!

What happened here? Where are my dear

children? Is
everyone here?
Narrator:
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Hearing her mothers voice, the youngest lamb slowly opened the blanket while the
mother walked into the room.
Lamb4
Mother

: (says frightenly) Dear mother, Im here, under the blanket.

: Oh my dear. Ill help you out from there. Wait there, Im coming to
you. (the mother sheep helped the little sheep out from the blanket)

Lamb 4

: Oh mum! Im glad you are here. The bad wolf has eaten my brothers

and sister.
Narrator:
Soon, the mother found out how the wolf had eaten her dear children.
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SCENE 6 (At The Meadow)
Narrator:
Finally in her despair, she went outside and the youngest lamb ran with her. They
came to the meadow and there lied the wolf by the tree, snoring so loudly that the
branches shook.
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Mother

(Mother sheep looked at the wolf from all sides and saw that something
was moving and jiggling inside his full belly. She says quietly to the
youngest lamb)
: Good gracious, it may be that my poor children are still alive. (looking
at the youngest kid beside her and holding her hands, she says)
: Now my dear, go back to our house and take a pair of scissors, a
needle and some thread. Go quickly now before the wolf wake up.

Lamb 4

:Okay mum. Ill go now to take those things. (stand up and quickly runs

away)
Narrator:
The little lamb ran quickly back home to take the things for her mother. After a
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while, she came back with the things her mother needed and hand in the things to
the mother.
The mother sheep quickly cut a hole in the side of the wicked old wolf. Then one of
the lambs stuck out his head. Then, another one popped out, until all the three
jumped out on the grass.
Lamb1, 2, 3 : (said happily while jumping and hugging each other around their
mother)
: Mother! Mother! We are fine.
Mother

: Im so happy to see all of you again. Now, go and bring me some

large stones
from the brook.
Lamb1, 2, 3 : Yes, mother. We will find them now.
Narrator:
The three little lambs ran off to the brook and soon came back with seven large
stones. They gave the stones one by one to their mother and quickl,y the mother
put those stones inside the wicked old wolf.
Mother

: (whispering tone) Thank you my dear. Now, Ill sew the wolf gently

and quietly
so he would not wake up. Now everybody, go and hide yourself among
the bushes over there while I finish up my work.
Narrator:
The mother hurriedly sewed him up again. The wolf was not aware of anything and
never once stirred. The wolf finally awoke and got up onto his legs. As the stones in
his stomach made him very thirsty, he wanted to go to a river and get a drink. But
when he began to walk and to move about, the stones in his stomach knocked
against each other and rattled. Then he cried out.

Wolf

: (singing sadly)
What rumbles and tumbles inside of me.
I thought it was kids, but its stones that they be.

Narrator:
When he got to the river and leaned over the water to drink, the heavy stones
pulled him in, and he drowned miserably. When the seven lambs saw what had
happened, they ran up and cried out.
Lamb 1,2,3,4

: The wolf is dead! The wolf is dead!

Narrator:
The little lambs together with their mother, singing and dancing for joy around
about the well.

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THE CASTINGS
Narrator:

Lamb 2:

Wan Nor Azah bt Wan Abdullah

Wan Azrul Zainal b. Zahudie

Mother Lamb:

Lamb 3:

Zety Azura bt Othman

Zurina bt Hassan

Wolf:

Lamb 4:

HizralFarezan b. Haron

Zanariah bt Hasbullah

Lamb 1:

Baker / Shopkeeper:

Mohd Farid Ooi b. Mohd Fuad Ooi

Muhd. Kamal Shahrizal b. Ghazali

THE DRAMA CREWS

Director / Cameraman 1:

Cameraman 2/Technician 1:

Mohd Farid Ooi b. Mohd Fuad Ooi

Muhd. Kamal Shahrizal b. Ghazali

Script Writer:

Runner / Technician 2:

Zurina bt. Hassan

Hizral Farezan b. Haron

Stage Director/Floor Manager:

Props:

Wan Azrul Zainal b. Zahudie

Zanariah bt Hasbullah
Zety Azura bt Othman
Wan Nor Azah bt Wan Abdullah

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