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The girl in the flower basket

Shirley Barrie · 2013

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This 45 minute play is for audiences from 4 - 12. When Sachiko's mother gets ill, she worries about how her young daughter will cope since it is a dangerous thing for a girl to be poor and pretty and alone. The goddess Kannon advises her to place a large flower basket on Sachiko's head. The mother does, telling her daughter that when the time is right, the basket will come off. But the flower basket seems to bring Sachiko nothing but trouble. When her mother dies, Sachiko is driven away from their small farm, and cannot get work. No one has time for a girl who is different. But with the help of a minstrel, her own industriousness, and the love of a man who has never seen her face, she finds happiness.

Book details

Year
2013
Language
English
Publisher
Playwrights Guild of Canada
Editions
1
Pages
32
ISBN
9781554350650

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