The Pied Piper of Hamelin

This set of Teachers’ Notes has been prepared to accompany the University of Southern Queensland’s production of Robert Browning's classic, The Pied Piper of Hamelin adapted by Robert Ketton for the 2012 USQ Children's Theatre Week.

The notes include:

  1 Preparing Your Students for Live Theatre
  2 About the Authors 
  3 Synopsis 
  4 History of the Tale 
  5 The Characters 
  6 The Design 
  7 Themes and Issues 
  8 Who is the Pied Piper?
  9 The Moral 
  10 Further Study and Interest 

Complied by students undertaking the Children’s and Young People's Theatre unit in the University’s School of Creative Arts – Ros Billingsly, Belinda Walton, Charlie Facoory, Sara James, Mark Morgan, Meekah Parsons, Alan Cooper, Josh Coleman and Casey Kiem.