Andersen's Fairytale
By John Morton
Age range
11 – 13, 13 – 15, 16 +
Cast size
15 +
Approx. running time
90 mins +
Gender breakdown
Male: 16
Female: 9
Pinocchio, Sandman and Snowmen could be played by females. Doubling up also possible.
Female: 9
Pinocchio, Sandman and Snowmen could be played by females. Doubling up also possible.
Setting
Denmark & The Land of Permafrost
Note
A fairy-tale comedy for a very large sized group.
First performance
Dreamstuff Youth Theatre, 2010.
Synopsis
Hans Christian Andersen is an awkward young boy who works as a Sorcerer’s apprentice for the Danish court. But all he wants is to be a famous writer. When the wicked Snow Queen returns to threaten the kingdom with permanent frost, the Emperor assembles a crack team of heroes led by the famed adventurer Emile Pussenbootz to capture her. However, Hans begins to suspect that Pussenbootz isn’t quite the hero he’s made out to be. Soon the young scribe is forced to take up the mantle of unlikely hero in this exciting, fairy-tale adventure.