Why We Have Winter and Other Plays - Engaging Drama Books for Theater Lovers | Perfect for School Performances & Book Clubs

Twelve plays that have been performed by the Logos 5th grade class at elementary assemblies over the past several years.

They are based upon the following ancient myths:

Mesopotamia

• Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven
• Gilgamesh and the Search for Eternal Life

Classical Greece

• Atalanta Loses a Race
• Why We Have Winter
• Phrixos and Helle
• Dionysos Comes to Thebes

Norse

• Thor's "Wedding"
• In Which Thor Gets a Hammer and Sif Gets Shorn
• The Apples of Idun
• The Death of Balder

Anglo-Saxon

• Beowulf and Grendel
• Beowulf and the Dragon