Wouldbegoods (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Being the Further Adventures of The Treasure Seekers

“We are the Bastables—Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and H. O. If you want to know why we call our youngest brother H. O. you can jolly well read The Treasure Seekers, and find out. We were the Treasure Seekers, and we sought it high and low, and quite regularly, because we particularly wanted to find it. And at last we did not find it, but we were found by a good, kind Indian uncle, who helped Father with his business, so that Father was able to take us all to live in a jolly big red house on Blackheath, instead of in the Lewisham Road, where we lived when we were only poor but honest Treasure Seekers.”

In this second novel about the Bastable children, the former Treasure Seekers are joined by the Robber’s two children, Daisy and Denny. The eight children manage to unintentionally get themselves into a major scrape in the very first chapter:
“We had no clothes on to speak of—I mean us boys. We were all wet through. Daisy was in a faint or a fit, or dead, none of us then knew which. And all the stuffed animals were there staring the uncle in the face. Most of them had got a sprinkling, and the otter and the duck-bill brute were simply soaked. And three of us were dark brown. Concealment, as so often happens, was impossible.”

Consequently, they are all exiled to the country home of Albert-Next-Door’s Uncle, there to stay until they “had grown into better children.”

The rest of the novel relates all of the (mis)adventures the children stumble into in their quest to be good.

Caution: Chapter 5 contains one instance of the offensive “n” word to describe how hard the children are working.
- Summary by E. Nesbit and Winnifred Assmann

Cast List:
Narrator: lightcrystal
Oswald: Jade Mansueto
Dora: ShrimpPhish
Dicky: Inkell
Second Big Man: Inkell
Alice: Marie Christian
Noel: David Purdy
H.O.: Cbteddy
Denny: Hannah Lake
Daisy: MaybeCordelia
Albert-Next-Door’s Uncle: BarryHaworth
Indian Uncle: Wayne Cooke
Pig-Man: Wayne Cooke
Colonel: Wayne Cooke
Father: Larry Wilson
The Foulkes Children’s Aunt: Agnes Robert Behr
The Head: PapaPhish
Gentleman with Thin Legs: PapaPhish
Mrs. Pettigrew: Owler
The Captain: Jon Hunter
Sailor: Jon Hunter
Antiquities President: Jon Hunter
Mrs. Simpkins: April 6090
The Postman: ToddHW
Shepherd: ToddHW
Farmer: ToddHW
Miller: ToddHW
Fox-hunting Magistrate: ToddHW
Man in Blue Jersey: ToddHW
Enemy’s Colonel: ToddHW
B. Munn, Grocer: ToddHW
Bill: Kelton Lee
Landlady: Stacey Malcolm
The Curate: Adrian Stephens
Clever Brother: Adrian Stephens
Nasty Boy: Adrian Stephens
Second Soldier: Adrian Stephens
Little Girl: LadyBird
Pig: MamaPhish
Baby: MamaPhish
Slender Maiden: Winnifred Assmann
Fat Girl: Winnifred Assmann
Slops Man: Beeswaxcandle
Farm Labourer: James R. Hedrick
Third Big Man: James R. Hedrick
First Big Man: A. Rodrigo
First Soldier: Redrun
Lady: Jenn Broda
Disagreeable Man: Kevin Stroud
Clergyman: Kevin Stroud