Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this is a truly beautiful and moving play adaptation that upholds, in every way, the purity and intent of the author. A classical musical score (not to be used for singing but as background music like a movie) and complete sound effects are included as an optional separate CD. An additional sequence of music has also been included called The Enchanted Garden. This music may be used as an intermission piece or for choreographing a ballet dance scene. If you have some little children who would like to play fairies and gnomes, the music works wonderfully to bring to life the garden of Mary’s imagination. The scene takes place just before intermission so the play flows with or without its addition. You are welcome to ask us how we put our ballet dance scene together for our younger children. The complete play package includes extensive notes on author, character summaries, sets, props, costumes and any pertinent historical information useful for teaching students.

Story Summary: Mary Lennox, a young English girl awakens one morning in colonial India to find her parents and all the house servants dead from a cholera epidemic. She is sent back to England to live with a cold, grieving, and self-preoccupied uncle. In her aloneness she discovers a secret garden and becomes totally possessed of the idea that Colin - the crippled son of her uncle, can walk if he too can share the Magic of the secret garden.

Cast: 14 female roles (6 principal/8 minor); 9 male roles (4 principal/5 minor)
Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes. One intermission

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Based on the classic by Louisa May Alcott classic, this is one of most appreciated and beloved of our play adaptations. A classical musical score (not to be used for singing but as background music like a movie) is included as an optional separate CD, along with the recorded Narration by Joe (Josephine) that links the scenes. The complete play package includes extensive notes on author, character summaries, sets, props, costumes and any pertinent historical information useful for teaching students.

Story summary: The Little Women are the March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - living with their mother in New England while their father is away serving as a chaplain in the Civil War. The story spans a period of four years and follows their adventures as a family and as young gentlewomen struggling to find happiness and love amidst the constraints of poverty. Through happy times and tragic, they each learn the value of goodness, sacrifice, and truth as they come to terms with the trials and joys of maidenhood.

Cast: 12 female roles (6 principal/6 minor); 5 male roles (3 principal/2 minor)
Running Time: 2 hours 20 minutes. Two intermissions

Special note: This is a great Christmas play to stage as there are two Christmas scenes incorporated within the play.

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This is our most popular play, based on the turn-of-the century novel by L. M. Montgomery. The production boasts a gorgeous classical musical score (used as background music only) that expresses the irrepressible hope of a young girl learning how to love and be loved. It is included as an optional separate CD, along with the recorded Narration by Anne that links the scenes. The complete play package includes extensive notes on author, character summaries, sets, props, costumes and any pertinent historical information useful for teaching students.

Story summary: The time is 1908. The place is Avonlea, Canada. Green Gables is the home of lovable Matthew Cuthbert and his stern sister, Marilla. When Marilla decides to adopt an orphan boy to help Matthew with his farm work, the orphanage makes a mistake and sends instead a high-spirited redhead called Anne Shirley. With a knack for trouble and misadventure, her irresistible spunk steals everyone’s heart. We follow Anne’s strenuous but brimful schooldays, her attachment to her bosom friend, Diana Barry, her feud with Gilbert Blythe, her contest with Josie Pye, and her undying loyalty to Matthew and Marilla. We glimpse the inmost joys of a girl who only marks the hours that shine, as she struggles toward fair maidenhood.

Cast: 13 female roles (4 principal/9 minor); 5 male roles (3 principal/2 minor)
Note: More “extra” roles of schoolchildren may be added for the classroom and outdoor scenes.
Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes. One intermission

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This is our sequel to Anne of Green Gables based on the novel by the same title. Like its predecessor, the sequel production boasts a gorgeous musical score (used as background music only). It is included as an optional separate CD, along with the recorded Narration by Anne that links the scenes. The complete play package includes extensive notes on author, character summaries, sets, props, costumes and any pertinent historical information useful for teaching students.

Story Summary: The heartwarming adventures of Anne Shirley continue as the irrepressible, high-spirited redhead begins her career as a schoolmarm in Avonlea. The Cuthbert house is transformed when Marilla adopts six-year old twins Davy and Dora Keith, and Anne’s friendship with her bosom friend, Dianna Barry, takes on a new maturity with Diana’s engagement to Fred Wright. Anne’s romantic heart blossoms with the discovery of sweet Miss Lavender and her hidden secret. The page of girlhood is turned in Anne’s friendship with Gilbert Blythe and the page of womanhood set before her with all its charm, its pain, and gladness.

Cast: 16 female roles (6 principal/10 minor); 7 male roles (4 principal/3 minor) Note: More “extra” roles of children may be added for the classroom scene.
Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes. One intermission

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Finally a play for teenage boys! This is a vigorous and swashbuckling adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel by the same title. We have even included some old fashioned swordfighting scenes! Your audiences will love this play but not as much as your cast! It is great fun while preserving the literacy and noble intent of the story and characters. For those of you with younger children, please click here to find out about our Littlest Player’s adaptation. We have included nearly eighty illustrations by Maurice Leloir, the famous French artist who was commissioned to illustrated Dumas’ first edition of The Three Musketeers. These illustrations have been used as title pages, scene dividers and scene illustrators. The children will love them! The complete play package includes extensive notes on author, character summaries, sets, props, costumes and any pertinent historical information useful for teaching students.

Story summary: The time is 1625 - an age of high adventure, romance and brave deeds. The place is Paris. Our story, set during the reign of Louis XIII of France and Cardinal Richelieu, tells the true tale of Charles de Batz d’Artagnan - a young nobleman who leaves his country estate in Gascony at the age of nineteen to join the King’s Musketeers. His swashbuckling soul, animated by honor, loyalty and shrewd intelligence, courts perilous adventures and romantic intrigues. Through them all, and with his valiant companions in arms, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he outsmarts evil and pierces to the heart of goodness.

Cast: 14 male roles (11 principal/3 minor); 4 female principal roles. Optional 12 “extras”: Six additional “extra” roles of the Cardinals’ Guardsmen, and six additional “extra” roles of Ladies-in Waiting to the Queen may be added if you have more girls and boys to fill roles.

Running Time: Just under 1 hour 45 minutes. One intermission

Based on the novel, The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel, our adaptation is a celebration of holiness and the triumph of the human spirit amidst poverty, doubt and persecution. You will need to distribute boxes of kleenex to your audience if you stage this production. It is deeply moving and spiritually uplifting. A stirring classical musical score on CD along with sound effects in cue order can be purchased as an option to accompany the dramatization of this play. The complete play package includes extensive notes on author, character summaries, sets, props, costumes and any pertinent historical information useful for teaching students.

Story summary: The time is 1858. Bernadette Soubirous, a young girl from a poverty stricken family in the village of Lourdes, France, sees a vision of a “beautiful lady” in the town dump. The wondrous news spreads rapidly throughout France, leaving in its wake a variety of consequences: adoration, suspicion and greed among the peasant people; disbelief and fear from her family; skepticiam from the municipal doctor; hostility from the Church; charges of insanity from the Imperial Prosecutor, and threats of physical punishment from the Chief of Police. During the course of her visions Bernadette discovers a spring whose waters bring miraculous healings. Only then is Bernadette asked to prove her trust love and fidelity to her “Lady’s” wishes.

Cast: Female principal roles: 9
Female minor principals: 18
Female minor roles: 15
Female extras: 15 to 50
Male principal roles: 11
Male minor principals: 7
Male minor roles: 10
Male extras: 8 to 20
Note: The play requires a fairly large cast though the crowd scenes can be thinned out.
Running time: 2 hours. One intermission

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