(Alice shrinks.) I feel a little nervous about this for it might end, you know in my going out altogether, like a candle.Īlice walks over to the garden door which is now large.Īlice: I wonder what I should be like then? Oh dear, I forgot the key Come, there’s no use in crying like that! I advise you to leave off this minute!Īlice walks back to the glass table and sees a box with a cake saying ‘EAT ME.’Īlice: What is this? Well, I’ll eat it and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens! (Alice eats it anxiously & talks with her mouth full.) Which way? Which way? (Alice finishes off the cake. (Alice finishes off the potion.) What a curious feeling! I must be shutting up like a telescope. It is very nice, it has a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast. Commissioned and Produced by the First Floor Theater in Chicago. However, this bottle is NOT marked poison. It is all very well to say drink me, but, I’ll look first and see whether it’s marked “poison” or not. For, so many out-of-the-way things have happened lately.Īlice walks back to the glass table hoping to find another key however, this time she finds a little bottle with a paper label around the neck with the words ‘DRINK ME’ beautifully printed on it in large letters.Īlice: This certainly was not here before. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin. It would be of very little use without my shoulders. (A small door appears.) A door! (Alice tries the key in the door.) It fits!Īlice opens the door with the key & tries to go through it but she is too big.Īlice: Why isn’t this the loveliest garden you ever seen! But not even my head can go through. But the locks are too large and the key is too small. Approximately 20-30 minutes running time. Two fantastic short versions of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. Suddenly a little table appears there is nothing on it except a tiny golden key.Īlice: Look at this tiny golden key. 30 original nightmares that will delight your group Use as monologues, short plays or as part of a Halloween show Macbeth Short Scripts. After she tries them all, she walks sadly down center wondering how she can get out. A ragtag band of teens fights for survival and to find life's little moments of joy in the aftermath of a climate induced catastrophe. High school (and advanced middle school) and older performers, middle school and older audiences. Alice walks along the doors and tries to open them all, but they are locked. 8-25+ females, 4-15+ males (14-40+ performers possible). Alice finds herself in a long low hall filled with doors which are lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. White Rabbit: Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!
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