Ogre Princess, The

Full-Lengths

By: Lavinia Roberts
Cast: 4 M, 13 F, 3 flexible (With doubling: 4 M, 12 F, 3 flexible)
Performance Time: Approximately 60-90 minutes, depending on the length of the fashion show, 55 pgs

COMEDY. Princess Camilla, an annoying fashion snob, continually criticizes her classmates’ fashion choices at Fairy Godmother’s Finishing School for Charming Princes and Princesses. Tired of Princess Camilla’s tirades, her classmates decide to teach the foppish fashionista a lesson by sprinkling her hair with frizzy hair dust. But the mislabeled magic dust accidentally transforms Princess Camilla into a hideous ogre. In exchange for a fashion consultation, Rumpelstiltskin escorts Camilla and her classmates into the Enchanted Forest to visit three witches to reverse the spell. Despite using a freshly brewed potion, the witches’ attempt to turn Camilla back into a princess fails. Then as the students head back to the castle to seek help from the Fairy Godmother, they get lost and run into a troublesome trio of trolls who face off with Camilla. Audiences will love the fashion show finale when the characters strut their stuff on the runway and reveal their makeovers to the audience.

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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.