Robots Assembly

Robots Assembly
When is a human not a human? When is a robot not a robot? Our unsuspecting Narrator is just about to find out the hard way! As are those androids - when having a sense of humour is not enough!
Cast size: 30 (easily adjustable up or down)
Duration: around 20 minutes (depending on amount of music used)
Sample Text 1:
Music 1 – I Can Transform Ya – Chris Brown
(Children file in, sitting down in two rows of fifteen, facing the audience)
Narrator: Good morning and I am happy to introduce you to my magnificent cast
(Narrator gestures to cast to rise)
(Whole cast rises to its feet)
Whole Cast: (Robotically) Good morning! ... Very pleased to meet you!
(Narrator gestures to cast to sit)
(Whole cast sits down)
Narrator: What a well-behaved lot! (Aside to audience) I can see I’m going to enjoy this particular assembly … (pointing to cast) … on robots, in case you hadn’t guessed. Sure beats my usual task of directing noisy, badly behaved children!
Sample Text 2:
Group III: (Together) How did you guess?
Narrator: Oh, when you’ve been around children as long as I have, you come to know them pretty well.
Child 7: But they’re human aren’t they?
Narrator: Hmm. Now, there’s a question!
Child 8: But, they laugh and cry, don’t they?
Child 9: Weren’t we convincing enough?
Child 10: We laughed at all the jokes
Child 11: We even laughed in all the right places!
Child 12: We cried during that soppy song
Child 13: Real tears!
Child 14: We showed all the emotions you humans go on about!
Child 15: So where did we go wrong?
Child 1: I think we can answer that.
Child 2: No human child, with half a brain, would find those particular jokes funny!
Child 3: Truly lame is what they were!