"Funeral for a Crayfish" - new 5-minute children's play
Meet Ari and Quinn. They’re elementary school students, thrilled their current Science Unit allows each child to study their own classroom crayfish! How cool, right? Well, not so cool when Billy accepts a dare which leads to the untimely demise of someone’s crayfish! The unlucky crayfish had a maroon marker dot on its back. These uniquely colored permanent marker dots were supposed to be a way the kids could tell their crayfish apart. But somehow, Juliet used the same maroon color as Ari! Ugh! Now good friends, Ari and Quinn, need to uncover clues which hopefully will determine the crayfish identity. But will their detective work be enough to solve the mystery?
Special thanks and credit to 8-year-old, Luke B., for his awesome design work on this cover!
Funeral for a Crayfish is a 5-minute comedic children’s play for 2 actors with flexible casting (any gender). It’s funny, it’s fun to read and perform, and it explores friends thoughtfully working together to solve a problem. It’s ideal to read in the classroom for Reader’s Theater, and also great for workshops, performances, competitions and acting practice.
Funeral for a Crayfish includes a page of fun facts about crayfish. Like—did you know crayfish live 20-30 years? Or that there are recipes for, gulp, Crawfish Cheesecake?
Enjoy an excerpt from Funeral for a Crayfish or get the complete digital play below.