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Storied

Storied

by Bradley Walton

After being mysteriously transported to a magical dimension inhabited by characters from fictional stories, three teenagers are pulled into a conflict between Good Ideas from classic tales and Bad Ideas, which have proliferated with the rise of online publishing.

Over the course of their adventure, they encounter Alice and the White Rabbit from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Snow White’s formerly evil stepmother, the witch from Hansel and Gretel, Lady Macbeth, Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice, Santa Claus, and others.

In an exploration of the nature of stories, characters, and the responsibilities of creators to their creations, the trio begins to wonder… could they be characters in a story themselves?

Comedy Drama Dramedy

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

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
Free Excerpt

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

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From the Drama Teacher Learning Centre

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