Gretchen Midgley Kaylor

Gretchen is a playwright, bookwriter-lyricist, and educator based in the DC area. Her work has been performed across the East Coast, including off-Broadway. Her full-length musicals and revues have received performances and workshops at Monumental Theatre Company, Catholic University, and the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival. Her one act play, "The Oxford Girls," debuted at the Virginia Thespian Festival and her newest full length play, "Wendy and the Lost Boys," will have its world premiere in the fall at Bishop O'Connell High School. Gretchen holds a B.M. Musical Theatre and an M.A. Theatre Education, both from The Catholic University of America. When not writing, she spends her days as a high school theatre director in Arlington, VA. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Gretchen is a playwright, bookwriter-lyricist, and educator based in the DC area. Her work has been performed across the East Coast, including off-Broadway. Her full-length musicals and revues have received performances and workshops at Monumental Theatre Company, Catholic University, and the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival. Her one act play, "The Oxford Girls," debuted at the Virginia Thespian Festival and her newest full length play, "Wendy and the Lost Boys," will have its world premiere in the fall at Bishop O'Connell High School. Gretchen holds a B.M. Musical Theatre and an M.A. Theatre Education, both from The Catholic University of America. When not writing, she spends her days as a high school theatre director in Arlington, VA. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Scripts

The Oxford Girls

by Gretchen Midgley Kaylor

Cast Size
10
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
period

When "Alice in Wonderland" fan June Flewett is evacuated to Oxford to escape the London Blitz, she doesn't expect to end up with three sisters who were friends with author Lewis Carroll as children. As June grapples with her new reality away from her family, she uncovers the truth of what happened between Carroll and the little girls who were his inspiration. Going between the stories of June, the young Hatch...

When "Alice in Wonderland" fan June Flewett is evacuated to Oxford to escape the London Blitz, she doesn't expect to end up with three sisters who were friends with author Lewis Carroll as children. As June grapples with her new reality away from her family, she uncovers the truth of what happened between Carroll and the little girls who were his inspiration. Going between the stories of June, the young Hatch sisters, and the Liddell sisters, "The Oxford Girls" brings a contemporary perspective to a questionable figure and explores the darker side of imagination.

Featuring an all-female cast, this play is based on true events and characters. June Flewett, later Jill Freud, was widely known for living with C.S. Lewis as an evacuee and becoming his inspiration for Lucy in the Narnia books. Before living with C.S. Lewis, however, she lived with three women who had been Lewis Carroll's "girls." This is the story of what may have happened.

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