Mom Crab Gets Mad: A TheatrePhonics Play

Abstract

This playlet presents the fable quite faithfully and directly. The mother crab draws a line in the sand and asks the young crab to follow it. The telling of this tale becomes a kind of tour-de-force of monosyllabic words and specific consonants. If you twitch to the side, to the side, to the side, you will crash that soft shell in a ditch! Switch to this line and shush up! (7). Mom's last line is Do like I tell you, not like I do! (16).