Five original plays designed for two actors, with the author's notes on staging and adapting the plays, including simple directions for the actors and a list of the props needed.
Lila, always the last to be chosen for games by the other children, earns their interest and acceptance by creating her own imaginative activities on the landing of her apartment house.
When her favorite brother disappears in the desert forever, Nadia refuses to let him be forgotten, despite her father's bitter decree that his name shall not be uttered.
Asked to tightrope walk for the queen's birthday party, Muriel arrives to discover that all the decorative paper lanterns have disappeared and that her detecting skills are needed too.
