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A FAIRLY TALL ADVENTURE – ADVENTURE PLAYS FOR KIDS

Children’s Comedy/Fantasy. Cindy and Jack Reiley spend an evening at home with their step-sitter (a substitute baby sitter). Jack makes a board game for them to play and, as they play, they notice strange things happening; fairy tale characters appear, spells are cast, and it seems the only way to set things right and get rid of the unwanted house guests is to finish the game before their parents come home. An adorable cast of unusual characters make this an exciting comedy the whole family will love.

Read about playwright Richard Van Den Akker.

Production History:

Actors of Tomorrow, North Carolina, USA – 2016
Fairy Tales Theater, MS, USA – 2019

Author:Richard Van Den Akker

Genre: Plays for kids, adventure play script

Type: Full length play

Length: One and a half hours

Number of actors: 9-13. Up to 10 girls, up to 5 boys

Ages of the actors: All can be played by children.

Suitable for: All ages, aimed at children

Set: The play is set in the living room/den of a middle income family. There is a couch, a few chairs and a low coffee table down center. There is also a door to outside, a door to the bedrooms, and a door to the kitchen. There is a sewing machine and a phone off to one side.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – a nice play aimed at older primary school children or younger middle school children.

Read a Sample of the Script

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Copyright March 2014 Richard Van den Akker and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? More plays for children!

Adventures of Moe Joe and Snowy in Lochloosa
Wandering Bard’s Tale – children’s fairytale in one act
A Manger Carol – one act nativity play

THE POETRY MACHINE – PLAY FOR CHILDREN

In this play for older children, an ageing poet is suffering a severe case of writer’s block. The poet comes across a gypsy who promises that a poetry machine will be able to help him/her write by simply placing material in the machine to form a story. The writer takes the machine home and after putting his/her grandchild’s toys in the machine, concocts a story in poetry about a pirate, robot and teddy bear. The poet finishes reading the story to find that his/her grandchild has disappeared, presumably having crept inside the poetry machine.

The poet also enters the machine and encounters the characters invented from the previous story, each inhabiting the opposite persona from that of the story. In the quest for his/her grandchild, the poet tries his/her best to comfort the chaotic characters when the gypsy reappears. Blaming the gypsy for the disappearance of his/her grandchild, the gypsy continues to infuriate the poet by speaking in riddles until the poet is finally awoken by his/her grandchild. Back in reality the poet realizes that the machine was not necessary to renew his/her writing and that s/he had the talent all along.

Author: Revelly Robinson

Genre: Two-act play for children

Type: Two-act play

Length: Twenty Five Minutes

Number of Actors: Six, 6 actors, all N/M/F

Ages of the actors: It can either be performed by children aged 6-13 years old, or alternatively with 5 older actors and one child

Suitable for: All ages, aimed at children.

Set: Act 1: Scene one and three are in a house with a writing desk, scene two is a market, but can be performed elsewhere on the stage. Act 2: Inside the dream world of the poetry machine and ends back at home.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – script is easy to remember as it is mostly in verse.