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Storied

by Bradley Walton

Storied is a meta-theatrical full-length play following three teenagers thrust into a surreal realm where spoken words instantly come to life.

Trapped in a war between good and bad ideas, the trio receives an ultimatum: hunt down and destroy the single worst idea in existence, or watch their reality crumble. 

Featuring a cast of iconic literary figures (and a few delightfully unexpected ones) Storied delivers a sharp, inventive look at narrative power, asking who truly controls the story, and what happens when the story takes control of us.

Comedy Drama Dramedy Adventure

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 77 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
20 Characters
6 M 9 F 5 Any Gender
Doubling Possible
Set
Unit Set
Length
70 pages
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20 Characters

  • 6 Males
  • 9 Females
  • 5 Any Gender
  • Doubling Possible
  • TATUM Female 311 lines
    A teenage girl
  • BECKY Female 344 lines
    A teenage girl
  • KEVIN Male 256 lines
    A teenage boy
  • BIG METAL THING Any gender 65 lines
    A big thing made out of metal
  • JAVERT Male 5 lines
    A French policeman from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables
  • ELIZABETH BENNETT Female 3 lines
    A young lady from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
  • HESTER PRYNNE Female 2 lines
    A woman from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
  • ANCIENT MARINER Male 16 lines
    An old seafarer from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • WHITE RABBIT Any gender 3 lines
    The White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • BRITTANY Female 77 lines
    The witch from the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel
  • COLLEEN Female 50 lines
    The evil queen from the Brothers Grimm’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • HAWKEYE Male 25 lines
    An American frontiersman from James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans
  • SANTA CLAUS Male 10 lines
  • MRS. CLAUS Female 8 lines
    Santa’s wife
  • LADY MACBETH Female 10 lines
    From William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
  • ALICE Female 16 lines
    From Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • BIGFOOT Any gender 3 lines
    A hairy creature who inhabits the forests of the Pacific Northwest
  • SHORT GREEN ALIEN WITH BIG EARS Any gender 16 lines
  • SNIPER IN A TUTU Male 14 lines
  • TOILET, DESTROYER OF WORLDS Any gender 18 lines
    Voice

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