Harriet Readers Theatre

From Harriet The Spy

By: Louise Fitzhugh
Adapted for Readers Theater by: Sarah Herman,
Maddie Lakey, Tillie Torpey, Spencer Klein, Shannon
Cash

Characters: Harriet
Sport
Janie
Rachel
Narrator

Narrator: Our readers theatre presentation is from

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. The characters are
Harriet, an eleven year old girl from Upper Eastside New
York that has a passion for writing, and uses her
observations to fulfill her curiosity, this character will be
played by Maddie. Next there is Sport, Harriets best
friend, who has all the responsibilities on his shoulder. His
character is fueled by his love of football, and he will be
played by Spencer. Harriets other best friend is Janie, her
character enjoys science, and can easily be relatable to a
mad scientist. This character will be played by Shannon.
Another character is Rachel, one of Harriets classmates

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who is a goody two-shoes, this role will be played by

Sarah. Lastly, we have the narrator who will read Harriets
logs from her other notebook, while capturing the true
essence of the story which will be played by myself.

Sport: Hey, why dont we go to the park and play tag?

Narrator: The kind of tag they played wasnt very

complicated; in fact Harriet thought it was rather silly.

(Sport falls to the ground, tired from running in so many circles)

Harriet: (Out of breath from running) Sport come on! We are

playing a game, get up!

Sport: Augh (Sport gets up off the ground running towards Harriet)

Harriet: (Frantic) WAIT! Where is my notebook?

Janie: Found it!

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Narrator: Harriet was hit with automatic fear, she tried

to frighten Janie so that she would drop the book and had
no luck.

Janie: Everyone come here, I have something to tell you

Harriet: (Pulling her hands to her head) FINKS! this cant be

happening!

Janie: Sport, youre on page thirty-four; Rachel, youre on

fifteen. Read it aloud Sport!

Sport: I cant!

Janie: (Mimicking tone) Sometimes I cant stand Sport. With

his worrying all the time and fussing over his father,
sometimes hes like a little old woman.

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Harriet: Thats not fair! (Exasperated tone) Therere some

nice things about Sport in there!

Janie: Harriet, go over there on that bench until we

decide what were going to do to you.

Narrator: Harriet couldnt believe that she was forced to

sit there, and took it upon herself to storm out of the
courtyard - no one noticed.

Rachel: Oh, Look here! (Rachel shows the journal to the other
classmates) Thoughts on Carrie Andrews, Is mean, Is rotten
in math, has funny knees, is a pig.

Janie: If Marion Hawthorne doesnt watch out shes

going to grow up into a lady Hitler

(All the kids join in laughter)

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Rachel: Who does Janie Gibbs think shes kidding? Does

she really think she could ever be a scientist?

Narrator: The children continued to read Harriets harsh

words from her journal, if one thing was for certain,
Harriet would never be treated the same.