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Script
Audition Central: Doctor Dolittle JR.
Script: Polynesia
SIDE
DOLITTLE
Mind you, Jip seemed perfectly happy with the gout pills. You see, that s the difference between animals and people, Maddie. Animals don t complain!MADELINE
The truth is, Doctor, you prefer animals to people!DOLITTLE
Animals are so much nicer than people! I care about animals! That s probably why I m such a terrible people doctor!(POLYNESIA speaks for the first time.)
POLYNESIA
Then you should be an animal doctor.DOLITTLE
(thoughtfully)An animal doctor?
POLYNESIA
Why not? I could bring you hundreds of patients. Mildred was saying just the other day that there isn t a decent animal doctor for miles around!DOLITTLE
Who s Mildred?POLYNESIA
Farmer Green s cow.MADELINE
You mean you spoke to her? Animals can actually talk to one another?POLYNESIA
Well, of course we can! Do you think we re all dumb?MADELINE
I uh uh no!! No. I knew that parrots could talk, of course& POLYNESIA
Parrots are the finest linguists in the animal kingdom. I speak over two thousand languages, including Dodo and Unicorn.MADELINE
Unicorn?POLYNESIA
I had a classical education.