Comedy. 65-75 minutes. 4 females, 4 males (8 performers, plus additional "woodland creature" roles as needed). Suitable for high school and older performers, and middle elementary and older audiences.
Premiered by The Leeward Theatre (Pearl City, [O'ahu] Hawai'i).
The author grants productions pre-approval to make cuts to meet time limits and community standards regarding profanity and obscenity for Texas UIL and other one-act competitions.
When the magical clock that keeps all the fairytales on track suddenly breaks down, it's up to Janice, the clock's guardian, and Morton, her loyal toadie, to get it back on track before disaster strikes and the stories go off the rails for good. With magical misfires and mistaken identities galore, princes on the prowl, classic characters like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White ready to do their own thing, will the stories get to their expected endings...or will they perhaps find new ones in this fast-paced farce in a forest?