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Award Winning Plays for Competition and Stage
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
ISBN: 978-1-61588-075-1
Type: Full Length
Genres: Comedy, Classics
Theme: Classic Adaptations
Duration: 100 minutes
Speaking Cast: 12 females, 12 males (24 total cast)
Flexibility: gender flexible
SYNOPSIS: Quasimodo, a deformed but lovable man, has spent his entire life within the walls of the cathedral of Notre Dame. With some urging from two zany nuns, he attends the Festival of Fools. Though he is crowned the King of Fools (the ugliest person at the festival), his guardian, Archdeacon Frollo, is enormously displeased with Quasimodo. Frollo forbids Quasimodo to leave Notre Dame again. Also at the festival are La Esmeralda, the gypsy queen, and Pierre Gringoire, a playwright. Frollo is taken by La Esmeralda's beauty and determines to have her, sending the guards after the gypsy queen to capture her. Both Quasimodo and Gringoire attempt to save La Esmeralda, resulting in Quasimodo's two-day punishment in the town square without food or water and Gringoire's narrow escape from hanging by the peasants' Court of Miracles. La Esmeralda helps them both, giving Quasimodo water and saving Gringoire from hanging by marrying him. Frollo, desperately jealous, stabs Gringoire and frames La Esmeralda. Though La Esmeralda is sentenced to death, Quasimodo saves her, taking her into the cathedral of Notre Dame and sanctuary. Frollo again tries to attack La Esmeralda and Gringoire, who has survived the stabbing, but falls to his death from the top of Notre Dame. Then it is up to the King and Queen of France to determine La Esmeralda's guilt or innocence...
Two narrators, Souffle and his hyperactive younger brother, Cheese, relate this adaptation of Victor Hugo's French literary classic, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and provide comic relief to this otherwise serious story. Other humorous characters and some judicious editing of this classic tale make it an enjoyable experience for the whole family!
North Allegheny School District Pittsburgh, PA Ferndale Area High School Drama Club Johnstown, PA Morton High School MORTON, IL Bishop Ludden JrSr high School Syracuse, NY HP Players Worden, MT Madison #1 Middle School Tempe, AZ
Monticello High School Monticello, IA Western Harnett High School Lillington, NC Terre Haute north Vigo HIGh School Terre haute, IN Oxford Community Theater Lake Orion, MI Bradenton Christian School Bradenton, FL West Craven High School Vanceboro, NC Ottawa Catholic School Board St. Joseph Ottawa, ON, Canada UHS Theater Arts Baxter, TN Sparta Middle School Drama Grand Rapids, MI Filer High School Drama Filer, ID Calvary Bible Church Port Jervis, NY Maimonides School Brookline, MA All Saints High School Bay City, MI Munster (HS) Theatre Company Munster, IN North Raleigh Christian Academy Raleigh, NC Wheeler Theatre Company North Stonington, CT Starmount Middle School Boonville, NC California School for the Deaf, Fremont Fremont, CA Carterville High School Carterville, IL Hinckley-Finlayson High School Hinckley, MN Monona Grove High School Drama Club Monona, WI Union Colony Schools Greeley, CO Cuthbertson High School Waxhaw, NC Old Opera House Theatre Company Charles Town, WV Possum Point Players, Inc. Georgetown, DE Queen of Angels Academy Dorval, QC, Canada Crandon High School Crandon, WI Chagrin Valley Little Theatre Youth Theatre Chagrin Falls, OH South Middle School Arlington Heights, IL Santa Susana High School Simi Valley, CA Yreka Adventist Christian School Yreka, CA Franklin Central High School Indianapolis, IN Seymour High School Seymour, MO Greensburg Junior High School Greensburg, IN
I had a great time writing this play. I enjoy the story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and am amazed at the movies which have been made about it. Although the story is serious in nature, I have incorporated humorous characters and scenes. Remember to have fun with your production!
West Bend High Schools, Full Cast Photo
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