V.I.L.L.A.I.N.S.

One-Acts 20

By: Lavinia Roberts
Cast: 5 M, 8 F, 7 flexible
Performance Time: Approximately 30 minutes, 36 pgs

FARCE. V.I.L.L.A.I.N.S. is a support group for recovering villains who realize their lives have become unmanageable and that they won’t live happily ever after unless they change their ways. Gisela, the evil fairy from “Sleeping Beauty” leads the group, which includes Snow White’s vain stepmother, a pack of wolves, a troll, a wicked witch, Cinderella’s evil stepmother, and many others. To motivate the villains to continue on their path to living happily ever after, Gisela has invited some inspirational speakers including a full-time fairy godmother, Prince Charming, and Jack from “Jack and the Beanstalk” fame. However, the meeting is interrupted by the Pied Piper, who offers transcendental music and hypnosis as a cure for villainy, and some fairies looking for their F.A.R.T.S. meeting.

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Lavinia Roberts is an award-winning playwright and educator. She has a MA in Theatre Education from New York University and an MFA in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University. Roberts has been a theatre teacher for more than a decade. She is an Assistant Professor and Murphy Fellow in Theatre Arts at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.