Adaptations
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Cast: 12 minimum (flexible casting)
Run time: 45 minutes
Adaptated from Charles Dickens short story.
When the world's grumpiest man is visited by three mysterious spirits on Christmas Eve, he must confront the boy he used to be and the man he's become to save himself—and a young boy's life—from a lonely fate.
Cast: 3M, 4F (with doubling)
Run time: 90 minutes
A tense courtroom thriller, based on a contemporary re-imagining of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
When Henry Dashwood is found in his car at the bottom of a river, was it suicide - or murder?
Cast: 8, gender neutral (with doubling)
Run time: 20 - 50 minutes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier was Andersen’s first original fairy story, and it sets the trend for what was to follow. It contains many of his trademark features, most notably the tragic central character and the doomed love between the soldier and the ballerina.
The production comes to life with simple physical theatre movements, optional dance sequences, puppetry, and mime.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: Minimum 14 (with doubling)
Run time: 90 minutes
Adapted for the stage from Lewis Carroll’s trilogy:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass,
The Hunting of the Snark and Alice’s Adventures Underground
Cast: 3m, 5f (when doubled)
Run time: 120 minutes
In the 1870s agricultural depression, a naive farm girl sent to claim a noble lineage is seduced and abandoned by a wealthy heir, forcing her into a desperate struggle against societal hypocrisy and a tragic fate she cannot outrun.
Cast: 20 gender neutral (minimum with doubling)
Run time: 100 minutes
When a quiet Mole leaves his spring cleaning for a life of adventure on the riverbank, he joins forces with a charming Water Rat, a wise Badger, and an eccentric Toad to reclaim Toad’s ancestral home from the wicked, invading animals of the Wild Wood.
Cast: 5M, 4F, 9 any
Run time: 45 minutes
The future. To solve the global energy crisis, HAL-9000 is retrieved from Jupiter after being left to fend for himself more than one hundred years previously. After harvesting his data, nobody could decide what to do with the barely responsive super computer.
A freak electrical storm brings him to life, and HAL merges with a human, going on to stand in the local Mayoral elections. He goes on to set up a mandatory virtual reality app to save costs on education, but secretly harvests the children’s cognitive energy to power the town’s, and his, own infrastructure.
Parents are at their wits end as children become unresponsive. They call in the former head teacher and scientist, Mrs Pi Piper, to bring back their children’s innocence.
Cast: 6M, 4F, 2 boys, 1 girl
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 90 minutes
Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
After being sent to a secluded Yorkshire estate, a sour young orphan discovers a hidden, neglected garden that becomes the key to healing her lonely cousin and her own cold heart.
Cast: Flexible casting, gender neutral
Run time: 25 minutes
A youth theatre play in one or two acts, adapted from the tales of Beatrix Potter
Available royalty free - please ask for details.