Wake Up Sleeping Beauties
By Deirdre Molloy
Age range
11 – 13, 13 – 15, 16 +
Cast size
Under 10
Approx. running time
30 – 60 mins
Gender breakdown
Male: 1
Female: 5
Female: 5
Setting
Three performance areas; flexible set.
Note
A one-act comedy re-evaluates popular fairy tales for a small cast.
First performance
Dublin Youth Theatre 1996.
Synopsis
Wake Up Sleeping Beauties takes characters from popular fairy tales (Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella and Queen Maebh) and brings them into a world where women hold the power. This play takes a wry look at the treatment of women in fairy-tales and with a heavy dose of tongue-in-cheek dialogue, turns a conventional genre on its head. An extremely funny play, which has worked equally well with teenagers and primary school children.