THE GIRL IN THE LAVENDER GLASSES – CHILDREN’S PLAY ABOUT BEING DIFFERENT
Like any other little girl, Marion wanted to go to school, play with her friends and be a kid. For ten months these little things that sometimes go unappreciated, became completely off-limits to Marion when she was hospitalised due to a rare eye condition. Dr Williams had the child’s eyes bandaged completely for her time in the hospital and she had no existence beyond the doors of her hospital bed in this children’s play about being different.
One day, Marion’s parents and Marion herself were presented with a donation of night eye glasses to help her see in her everyday life. She would get back to her normal routine before the hospitalisation. Marion’s story then began again and ended where her new world took shape and in three acts, this drama shows that the ones amoungst us who are scorned for being different, are magic.
She was a friend, she was a daughter, she was a girl, and she was a hero.
Author: John Zurn
Type: Children’s play about being different
Genre: Children’s drama
Cast: 10F, 11M, 6-10N. Mains: 2 – M, 2 – F
Ages of the actors: Children to adult
Suitable for: Children up
Length: Thirty minutes
Set: Doctor’s Office, her school, a restaurant, library, the family home, the playground, a house. Scene changes can be simple, to indicate basic changes , like a chair and tables moving round.
Level of difficulty: 7/10 – crowd control and scene changes
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Copyright © February 2019 John Zurn and Off The Wall Play Publishers
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