Pied Piper
Written by Madge Miller, Pied Piper is based on the famous nursery rhyme. Residents are worried when a plague of rats infests the town of Hamelin.
However, a strange Piper appears with an offer to dispose of the rats for a thousand guilders. The local Council agrees, and the Piper does actually charm the rats with his pipe, and they are all drowned in the river.
But the townspeople refuse to pay him his fee, so the Piper charms their children with his pipe, and leads them to a nearby mountainside, where walls of rock close around them. Dirk, a little lame boy who was unable to keep up with the children entering the mountain, tries to recapture the Piper’s tune on his own pipe, but finds himself unable to remember it until each of the townspeople has surrendered the possession he loves the most.
Compare this version with our Pied Piper from 1972
| Jan Dekker | Malcolme Littler |
| Madam Dekker | Jenny Trace |
| Anna Dekker | Laura Hartley |
| Cornelis Holst | Richard Holladay |
| Madam Holst | Lynda Jewell |
| Hendrik Holst | Matthew Ruddle |
| Mistress Tilli | Diana Phillips |
| Dirk | Jack Slee |
| The Pied Piper | Edward Heeley |
| Village children | Laura Hoad, Lucy Holladay and George Holladay |
| Directed by | Wendy Montgomery and Ian Guy |
