The Thousand-Year Rose

by Peter Fenton

Full-length. Theater for young audiences contemporary comedy/fantasy adventure asking what makes a person good or evil. Three storybook witches on the hunt for a treasure, which will only appear for a pure heart, decide to kidnap a kind person. They weren't expecting her to fight back.

An earlier version was published by Heuer Publishing in 2019.

Full-length. Theater for young audiences contemporary comedy/fantasy adventure asking what makes a person good or evil. Three storybook witches on the hunt for a treasure, which will only appear for a pure heart, decide to kidnap a kind person. They weren't expecting her to fight back.

An earlier version was published by Heuer Publishing in 2019.

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The Thousand-Year Rose

Character Information

This play can be performed with 12 actors if GARDENER doubles as JEWELER, CONDUCTOR, and DIRECTOR and CIERA doubles as LIZ and MRS. MURPHY. BOGGS and MRS. MURPHY are to be played with Irish accents. MARYANNE is the grandmother of SCOTT and R.J., all three characters should be played by actors who share an ethnicity. Otherwise, all roles can be played by any ethnicity, ethnic diversity and gender-expansive casting is encouraged.
  • Kimmi Larkin
    18-25
    Any
    Female
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      Teens,
      20s
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Asian, Pacific Islander, or Asian American,
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      Middle Eastern, North African, or Arab American,
      South Asian or South Asian American,
      White
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Woman
  • Abigail
    40s
    Any
    Female
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      30s,
      40s,
      50s
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Asian, Pacific Islander, or Asian American,
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      Middle Eastern, North African, or Arab American,
      South Asian or South Asian American,
      White
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Woman
  • Vivian
    26-30
    Any
    Female
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Asian, Pacific Islander, or Asian American,
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      Middle Eastern, North African, or Arab American,
      South Asian or South Asian American,
      White
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Woman,
      Non-binary
  • Professor Bradley Gorman
    60s
    Any
    Male
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      40s,
      50s,
      60s,
      70s+
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Asian, Pacific Islander, or Asian American,
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      Middle Eastern, North African, or Arab American,
      South Asian or South Asian American,
      White
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Man

Production History

  • High School, Conestoga Valley School District, 2017
  • University, Wheaton College, 2016