CC-Licensed Folktale Readers Theater

Click on the links below to access the scripts:

1. Alligator, Rabbit, and Wolf

2. Anansi and the Stories

3. Anansi's Pot of Wisdom

4. Brer Fox and the Little Rabbits

5. Cheetah Races Turtle

6. Coyote Steals a Blanket

7. The Crocodile and the Chicken

8. Crossing the River

9. The Donkey and His Friends

10. The Eating Contest of Elephant and Squirrel

11. The Foolish Princes and the Turtle

12. The Grateful Animals

13. The Hoopoe and the Queen of Sheba

14. How Raven Brought the Salmon

15. How Raven Brought the Water

16. Juan Bobo Goes Up and Down the Hill

17. King Solomon and the Baker NEWLY REVISED. This is a world folktale, often associated with Nasruddin, but this script is based on a Jewish version of the story featuring King Solomon. 4 readers; appx. 15 minutes to read.

18. The Lion-King and the Rabbit

19. The Little Engine That Could

20. The Little Hero, Motikatika

21. Mother Partridge and the Snake

22. Mrs. Pig's Necklace

23. Nasruddin and His Neighbor

24. The Old Woman and the Tengu

25. The Pious Fox Goes on a Pilgrimage

26. The Prince and the Frog

27. The Python, the Baboon, and the Rabbit

28. The Queen Bee

29. Rabbit and Bobcat

30. The River Test

31. The Sheep in the Fox's Den

32. Spider in the Grave

33. Tortoise and the Porridge

34. The Two Pebbles: NEW. This is a new script based on a folktale from Myanmar. (You might also know this story from its popularization by Edward de Bono in his "lateral thinking" books.) 5 readers; appx. 25 minutes to read.

35. The Turtle and the Ducks

36. Who Will Be King?

37. Zeus and the Turtle

This website is a repository for CC-BY licensed scripts for readers theater that come from the folktale traditions of the world. These scripts are free for you to copy, adapt, remix, rewrite, and transform based on your own inspiration; my only request is that you credit the source — Laura Gibbs at Scripts.LauraGibbs.net — so that others can find their way here too. 

You can find out more about Readers Theater here: Open the Language Classroom Curtains to Readers Theater., and the article is embedded below.

Thank you for your interest, and if you have readers theater scripts that you would like to contribute to their project, let me know. You can reach me by email: laurakgibbs@gmail.com.