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What if JEKYLL turned into Miss Hyde? What if Hansel and Gretel just made up the story about the witch? What if Peter Pan just wasn’t that into Wendy? These stories plus Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood and a very famous candy maker whose name rhymes with “Billy Bonkers” are all exposed as having very different back stories than the ones we think we know. Written as a collection of one-acts that can be either presented as a full evening of theater, or broken out for drama festivals and competition, EXPOSED! is chock full of great roles for up to over 30 actors. CAST OF CHARACTERSCopy (1-21 MALE, 1-16 FEMALE, 1-2 EITHER, 2-35 TOTAL, DOUBLING POSSIBLE, GENDER FLEXIBLE) WRAP AROUND SEGMENT #1-#9 WARREN PIECE (or EILEEN DOVERANDFELL) RUMPELSTILTSKIN: MY STORY RUMPELSTILTSKIN Not KING BEATRIX NIKOLETTE CHARLES DICKENS: KING OF COMEDY GEORGINA Do CHARLES DICKENS CINDERELLA, SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE BIG SWITCHEROO! CINDERELLA SLEEPING BEAUTY 2 BY SEAN ABLEY, MICHAEL BEYER, JENNY KIRKLAND-LAFFEY, AND AMY SEELEY INSIDE THE CORNER OFFICE: THE REAL STORY OF THE BONKER’S CANDY FACTORY BILLY BONKERS CHARLES GRANDPA HANSEL AND GRETEL: A TALE OF SIBLING RIVALRY HANSEL GRETEL WITCH JEKYLL AND LITTLE MISS HYDE ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON MRS. CALLIWELL JEKYLL’S ASSISTANT JEKYLL MISS HYDE THE ADVENTURES OF ROXIE HOOD:Copy ROBIN'S ANNOYING SISTER ROBIN HOOD MR. SULLIVAN FARMER GUARD ROXIE HOOD Not WENDY & PETER: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE NURSERY WENDY JOHN MICHAEL PETER TINK Do DURATION 10-80 minutes (Depending on how many scenes chosen.) 3 EXPOSED! EIGHT 10-MINUTE SCENES ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED PRODUCTION NOTES EXPOSED! was written to be either an evening’s worth of entertainment, or broken out in to separate one-acts for festivals and competitions. If you choose to present all eight one-acts together, you may use the wrap around written for this collection, or just present the pieces one after another. You may also use fewer than all eight pieces if your production has time restrictions. Many of these pieces were written to be performed as a quick-change exercise for two actors. Some of the transformations are lightning fast, and humor should be found in the changes themselves. For these plays, as imagined by the playwrights, each actor wears a basic costume that fits the one-act in question, then adds and removes pieces to represent each character. However, casting a separate actor in each role is perfectly acceptable. PROPERTY LIST NOTE: Many, if not all, of these props may be mimed. WRAP AROUND SEGMENT #1 Copy Photo RUMPELSTILTSKIN: MY STORY Diary Quill “Help Wanted” flyer Straw (Can be imaginary.) Not Pile of gold (Can be imaginary.) Baby in blanket Drivers license Do 4 BY SEAN ABLEY, MICHAEL BEYER, JENNY KIRKLAND-LAFFEY, AND AMY SEELEY CHARLES DICKENS: KING OF COMEDY “Arrow thru the head” gag Microphone (Can be imaginary.) Newspaper Writing paper Quills (2) Cup of tea Pages of writing Box of chocolates CINDERELLA, SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE BIG SWITCHEROO! Pillow Invitation INSIDE THE CORNER OFFICE: THE REAL STORY OF THE BONKER’S CANDY FACTORY Pen (2) Paper Contract (2) Copy Piece of Candy (Charles.) Notebook Smart phone Candy bar (Billy.) Soda Glasses (2) Not HANSEL AND GRETEL: A TALE OF SIBLING RIVALRY Piece of paper Map Pizza Sticks and twigs Candy Do 5 EXPOSED! EIGHT 10-MINUTE SCENES ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED JEKYLL AND LITTLE MISS HYDE Quill Writing paper Invitation Beaker filled with fluid Drink umbrella Shopping list Box of tea cakes WRAP AROUND SEGMENT #7 Book – “Britney Spears, My Thoughts On Math” THE ADVENTURES OF ROXIE HOOD: ROBIN’S ANNOYING SISTER Pool noodle sword (2) Communication headset (2) Chicken Jewels (Can be imaginary.) Copy WENDY & PETER: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE NURSERY Shadow Not Do 6 BY SEAN ABLEY, MICHAEL BEYER, JENNY KIRKLAND-LAFFEY, AND AMY SEELEY EXPOSED! WRAP AROUND SEGMENT #1 LIGHTS UP. THEME MUSIC plays. WARREN PIECE (or EILEEN DOVERANDFELL): Hello, and welcome to tonight’s edition of Exposed exclamation point! My name is Warren Piece, and I’ll be your host for this evening. Here in the Exposed! studios, we’re on a mission to uncover the truth beneath all the insidious lies we’ve been fed by the mainstream media for far too long. You might remember we uncovered the truth behind Jack Sprat. According to our sources, and this photo… (Holds up photo.) Mr. Sprat actually ate fat as part of a fraternity initiation stunt in college. Exposed! Nice try, Mr. Sprat. And FYI, we have our eye on your wife as well. Tonight we have eight truly shocking tales of what really happened to some very famous people. Get ready to have your mind blown with the horrifying details behind stories you thought you knew. We’ll give you all the details, and by the end of this episode they will all be exposed! FirstCopy up, the true story of one Rumpelstiltskin… RUMPELSTILTSKIN: MY STORY By Sean Abley CAST: ACTOR ONE: RUMPELSTILTSKIN and KING ACTOR TWO: BEATRIX andNot NIKOLETTE LIGHTS UP. RUMPELSTILTSKIN is on stage, speaking directly to the audience. Do 7 EXPOSED! EIGHT 10-MINUTE SCENES ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED RUMPELSTILTSKIN: Hello everyone, welcome to Germany. The year is 1812, and my name is Rumpelstiltskin. No, you don’t have to guess. I’ll tell you right now – Rumpelstiltskin. No one has to guess my name. That wasn’t a thing. That story you heard, about the spinning straw into gold and stealing a baby and splitting myself in half because I was so mad? Not true. I get a super bad rap for that whole thing, and about the only true part of it is I know how to spin straw into gold. But anyone can do that, honestly. You just have to pay attention in Home Ec. So let’s set the record straight. First of all, there was this girl. Let’s just call her Beatrix… because her name was Beatrix and I want everyone to know what a nightmare she was! BEATRIX enters holding her diary and a quill. BEATRIX: OMG 1812 is super boring! Everything is totally dusty and smells like a barn. Lame. (Opens her diary and starts to write.) “Dear Diary, Every day is the same here. I wake up, eat some breakfast strudel, go to school, then goCopy to cheerleading practice where we have, like, one cheer.