Sleeping Beauty: A Very Merry Tale

One-Acts 45

By: Mike Noland
Cast: 4 M, 10 F, 5 flexible, opt. extras (Doubling possible.)
Performance Time: Approximately 60 minutes, 51 pgs.

FARCE. The laughs never end in this outlandish version of “Sleeping Beauty.” After a magical talking frog promises the childless King and Queen a daughter, the couple hosts a baby shower and invites everyone in the kingdom except for an old fairy, who everyone thought was either retired or dead. Angry she wasn’t invited, the old fairy places a curse on the Princess in which she will prick her finger and fall over dead at the age of 15. Trying to “help,” a not-so-bright fairy reverses the curse by proclaiming that the Princess will prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep for 100 years until she is awakened by a prince. (Why 100 years and not one year? Oops!) Luckily, 100 years later, a prince hunting for unicorns arrives and awakens the Princess, and the whole kingdom parties like it’s 1699!

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Mike Noland has worked in film, theatre, and commercial production and has a BFA in Theatre from Arkansas State University. For more than 28 years, Mr. Noland has taught speech and drama in North Little Rock, AR, where he has directed countless plays and musicals and written Readers Theatres for speech competitions.