How do you teach a waterfall to act—or actors how to be a waterfall? The Director's Script tells how. The King and Queen love their precious little daughter so much, they keep every memento of her childhood, even her teardrops. But one day a teardrop falls into the Endless River and floats away. When everyone else refuses to brave the treacherous, mysterious river, two not-so-bright young men volunteer. What an adventure it is as they encounter a beautiful but dangerous Waterfall, the timid but stultifying Quiet Waters, the frightening Roaring Rapids, and the cruel Singing Sea (all delightfully played in mime).

Here is one of the most charming children's plays you will find anywhere—and one of the most versatile. It is ideally suited for staging by adults for children, by children for other children, or by children for adults. The production may be very simple—a cardboard box representing the boat, on a bare stage. Or it may be very elaborate, with spectacular scenic and lighting effects.

For those who need a play for a large cast, this one has room for 25 or more performers. Most of the roles may be played by either males or females. However, because of the way the scenes are arranged, actors and actresses may double in roles, reducing the cast to as few as 10.

Reading the play will suggest an exciting variety of costumes—lots of glitter for the Waterfall; perhaps flowing pastel organdy for the Quiet Waters...and wild make-up and costumes with bright stripes, undulating scarves or capes or ribbons, and feathery headpieces for the Roaring Rapids. The costumes of the Singing Sea might be a parody of a currently popular singing group. And then green-clad Neptune with his swim fins and his fierce trident pops to the surface! A strip of blue cloth undulated by stagehands makes an exciting river. The Director's Script for this play gives detailed information and drawings to help even inexperienced directors stage an enchanting production.

In Search of the Golden Teardrop premiered so successfully in the Alley Merry-Go-Round, the theatre-school workshop of the famed Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, that it was repeated in the school on several different occasions.

The play tells of the journey of two brave young men down the perilous uncharted Endless River in search of a golden teardrop which fell from the precious little eye of a precious little princess. The theme is a simple one—have faith in yourself. But in our overcrowded world where a child's search for identity often meets frustrations which warp his character and personality, the message is an important one. George is just an ordinary fellow, but his faith in himself leads him to extraordinary achievement. The adults in the audience may find a more subtle theme: that nitwit kid you're laughing at today may grow up to be the genius of the century tomorrow.

"We mounted a most successful production."—Sand Lake PTA Youth Theatre, Averill Park, N.Y.