About the Play
Drama for young audiences. 15-20 minutes. 4-30+ any gender. Suitable for elementary and older performers, and elementary audiences.
First produced by West Valley High School at the Stacey West-Bailey Theatre (Hemet, CA).
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.
Synopsis
Billy gets bullied. A lot. After one run-in too many, he decides he's tired of being a "weakling." It would be so much better if he were a stegosaurus. And then it happens: He transforms into a real, live spikey-tailed dinosaur and starts to terrorize the town. What do you do with a dinosaur? No one knows how to get the new Billy under control, but is this what he really wants? Will he forget that kindness and love are stronger than fear and hate? Or will he learn that being a dinosaur isn't all it's cracked up to be and—with a little help from his friends—that his human self is stronger than he ever realized?