In the Garden of the Selfish Giant
Product Code: I83000
One-act Play
Comedy | Drama
Cast size: 4w.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Awards: The Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award | AATE Distinguished Play Award | Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award | Bonderman National Youth Theatre Playwriting Award
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Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Maggie Campbell and Susan, her mother, have come to Susan's childhood home to be with Maggie's dying grandmother in her final days. Maggie has never known this cantankerous grandmother, who is never seen in the play but still exerts a powerful effect on everyone in it. Maggie resents having to cancel her summer plans to accompany her mother and, as the play opens, Maggie has climbed a tree in her grandmother's long-unkempt garden and settled into what she thinks will be an unyielding sulk to spite her mother for the inconvenience. But into the garden come Allison and Brianna: one, a funny, warm and insightful Hospice worker; the other, an imaginative nine-year-old neighbor who hates unhappy endings and never lets the facts stand in the way of a good story, not even her rollicking rendition of Oscar Wilde's fairy tale about "The Selfish Giant"—a frightening and forbidding character who reminds her of Maggie's grandmother. Eventually, Allison and Brianna help unravel Maggie's bad mood, and mother/daughter rifts are mended. As summer draws to a close, the expected death occurs, and, to Brianna's dismay, Maggie and Susan prepare to return home. Unhappy endings can't always be avoided, but understanding, forgiveness and friendship do eventually blossom like the roses in this garden of the "selfish giant."
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show One-act Play
- Product Code I83000
- Minimum Cast Size 4
- Pages of Dialogue 41
- Min. Royalty Rate $50.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 45 min
- Staging One ext. set.
Categories
- Target Audience Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
- Performing Group Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA | Touring Group
- Genre Comedy | Drama
- ISBN(13) 9781583422151
Customer Reviews
Sandy Asher has produced an outstanding script full of love and laughter. In the Garden of the Selfish Giant has the right combination and balance of fun and heartfelt moments that will take audiences back to their childhood while exploring relationships between mother and daughters as well as childhood, summer friendships.
Gallery
In the Garden of the Selfish Giant - Good Company Theatre for All Ages, Springfield, MO
In the Garden of the Selfish Giant - Whitley County High School, Williamsburg, KY
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