Youth Plays
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Cast: 12 minimum (flexible casting)
Run time: 45 minutes
Adaptated for youth theatre 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: Minimum 14 (with doubling)
Run time: 50 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: 22, gender neutral
( doubling possible)
Run time: 90 minutes
Join Red Riding Hood for fun romp around the Storybook of fairytale characters, perfect for community groups, youth theatre and family audiences.
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: 1m, 3f, 2 any (with doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
A headstrong girl and a cursed prince must find the beauty within to save an enchanted kingdom from an eternal winter.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 1M, 2F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
Mistreated by her stepfamily and reduced to a scullery maid, a young woman uses a magical transformation to attend a royal ball, where she must capture a prince’s heart before the stroke of midnight reveals her true identity.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 4M, 2F, 7 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
When a dreamer and his rat-catching cat arrive in a London infested by the evil King Rat, they must embark on a perilous high-seas journey to clear their names and save the city from a rodent plague.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: Minimum 12 (with doubling)
Run time: 120 minutes
Fairy number forty is an aspiring apprentice fairy, who scouts the Fantasy Times for her big break, leading to a flexible, modular adventure. To earn her wings, a determined apprentice fairy must crash six "pocket" pantomimes, weaving together a series of classic tales to prove that every story - no matter how small - needs a little bit of magic.
Cast: 14 actors (min. with doubling)
Run time: 90 minutes
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: 1M, 1F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
After trading his family’s last cow for a handful of magic beans, a destitute farm boy climbs a colossal beanstalk into the clouds to steal a giant’s treasures and save his mother from starvation.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: Minimum 16 (with doubling)
Run time: 75minutes
When the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham threatens the enchanted lands, a chaotic alliance of storybook legends - together with Jack and SuperGran - must trade their individual fables for a shared mission to find the gold at the end of the beanstalk.
Cast: 3M, 2F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
When a penniless miller’s son inherits nothing but a talking cat, the crafty feline dons a pair of magical boots and embarks on a swashbuckling quest to outwit an evil ogre, trick a King, and win a Princess’s heart.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 2F, 7 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
After escaping an assassination attempt by her jealous stepmother, a displaced princess must team up with a cynical, solitary pixie to reclaim her kingdom and prove that true strength comes in small packages.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
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
Cast: 4m, 3f (with doubling)
Run time: 25 minutes
A play based on a modern adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelyn, which may be recorded, produced for the radio, or performed live in front of an audience.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.