Edith Weiss

Edith Weiss has a master's degree in educational theater from NYU. She toured for fifteen years as a stand-up comedian, traveling coast to coast and also overseas for the troops in the Balkans, Korea and Japan. She is the author of over 20 children's plays and murder mysteries. "I like writing funny, fast paced theatre". Her plays have been produced world wide. Working with PHAMALY, the Physically Handicapped Actor's League, she is the director and head writer for the Vox series, original shows about living with disabilities co written and performed by those who have them. Her short adult plays have been admitted into competitions in Boston, New York, Kansas City and Chicago.

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The Three Prince Charmings

Theatre Youth by Edith Weiss

43 pages

With doubling: 3 m, 3 w, 1 flexible

Meet the Prince Charmings of Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White. Steve, an itinerant freelance narrator, starts with the first story of Cinderella's hero, Prince Charming Hair who is introduced at a ball, a nightmare of young ladies playing push-and-pull with him. Luckily, he finds Cinderella and they have a traditional happy ending. Prince Charming Smile is distraught because he does not have a Lady Fair. When he meets Rapunzel, "imprisoned" by two wicked witches, he falls instantly, deeply into shallow love. But this Rapunzel, monosyllabic and whiny, doesn...

Snow White, the Evil Queen and the Three Slobs

Theatre Youth by Edith Weiss

44 pages

2 m, 4 w, 1 flexible. (Seven actors play 12 characters.)

Snow White is a dirt-smudged stable girl, innocent to the point of cluelessness, whose stepmother, the Queen, must be the most beautiful woman in all the land. But when the Magic Mirror informs the Queen that Snow White has the gift of inner beauty, the Queen goes berserk with jealousy. The Magic Mirror and the castle servants comically thwart the Queen's first attempts to poison Snow White. Fleeing into the woods, Snow White finds the House of the Three Slobs. Therein live Grouchy, Snivelly, and Slacker. They don't want to let her in, but she promises to hel...

Rapunzel, Narrated

Comedy by Edith Weiss

26 pages

2 m, 4 or 5 w

Prince Charming Smile meets Steve, an itinerant narrator, and after a furious swordfight they become friends. Prince Charming Smile tells Steve that he is the only Prince Charming without a lady fair, and he is on the quest for one. When he meets Rapunzel, “imprisoned” by the wicked witch Imaboil and the New Age witch Esmepus, he falls deeply into shallow love. He decides to rescue her and win her as his wife. But the rather vapid Rapunzel doesn’t want the Prince, so Steve conjures up a sleeping Snow White for him and a happy ending for all the characters. Tw...