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Dragon Trouble (a free children's play script) by D. M. Larson from Freedrama.net
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Dragon Trouble is a children's play about a mischievous fairy who creates problems in a peaceful kingdom just because she is bored. The dragons fight with the princesses and knights until some magicians come along and help restore peace to the kingdom.
Cast of Characters
NARRATOR/JESTER
SUSIE (Susie Sally Sassafras)
LITTLE FAIRY
LITTLE DRAGON
LITTLE PRINCESS
PRINCESS ROSE - lead princess
PRINCESS LILY
DRAGON KING
KING TORTOISE
NIGHTY KNIGHT
FIRE KNIGHT
SIR HOOK
KNIGHT NOT YET NAMED
MAGICIAN 1 and 2
Jester appears on the stage
and he is playing a happy tune on his flute (this can be pre-recorded and he
can pantomime playing). He can appear inside a cutout of a giant
storybook.
NARRATOR/JESTER
Once upon a time, there were
three families. There was
a family of princesses...
Princesses appear at one end of
the stage.
NARRATOR/JESTER (Cont.)
...a family of knights...
Knight appear on another part of
the stage.
NARRATOR/JESTER (Cont.)
...and a family of
dragons.
Dragons appear.
NARRATOR/JESTER (CONT.)
But then some fairies moved in and created all
sorts of trouble. Susie Sally Sassafras was the worst of all.
SUSIE
Peace is boring.
Other fairy nods.
SUSIE (CONT.)
Let's make things a little more interesting.
Susie and little fairy fly up to a little dragon who is
playing with something pretty.
LITTLE DRAGON
I love pretty things.
SUSIE
Those things are ok. But do you know who has prettier
things than that?
LITTLE DRAGON
Who?
SUSIE
The princesses.
Susie throws fairy dust on the Little Dragon who
sneezes.
LITTLE DRAGON
Ah-chew!
SUSIE
That fairy dust will put you under my spell. You
will go to the castle and take the pretty things from the princesses.
The little fairy laughs.
Little Dragon SNEAKS inside CASTLE
NARRATOR/JESTER
The little dragon sneaked into the caste and took one of the
princess's pretty things.
LITTLE DRAGON
I love it!
PRINCESS 4
She took my pretty thing! Waaa!
LITTLE DRAGON
Ha! Ha!
The little dragon sneaks away. The princesses cry.
Susie
throws fairy dust on them.
SUSIE
You will take back your pretty thing and take all the
dragon's treasure.
Princess Rose sneezes and then looks mad.
PRINCESS ROSE
Aw-chew! Don't worry. We'll get your pretty thing
back.
Princesses skip up to a cave.
PRINCESS ROSE
Okay, now you go inside and get the pretty thing back.
PRINCESS LILY
Okay.
PRINCESS ROSE
Wait. And take all their other treasure too.
PRINCESS LILY
No.
PRINCESS ROSE
I dare you.
PRINCESS LILY
No.
PRINCESS ROSE
I double dare you.
PRINCESS LILY
No.
PRINCESS ROSE
I triple dragon dare you.
Princesses look shocked.
NARRATOR/JESTER
There's no way she could resist a triple dragon dare you.
PRINCESS LILY
Fine. But I get half the treasure.
PRINCESS ROSE
Deal.
Princess Lily goes in and sneaks up to dragon.
Dragons stir. She tries not to be afraid. She finds something
pretty, grabs it and comes out.
PRINCESS ROSE (Cont.)
I love it!
Dragons hear this and roar.
PRINCESS ROSE (CONT.)
Oooops.
Princesses run and hide behind a little cardboard/paper
castle. Dragons tear up their castle during the
following. Knights try fighting dragons. Princesses take more
treasure.
NARRATOR/JESTER
The dragons were mad at the
princesses and burned down their castle. The princesses took more
treasure so they could afford to
buy another castle. The dragons got mad and burned that castle too.
It never seemed to
end.
PRINCESS ROSE
Will this ever end?
KING TORTOISE
We'll help you.
NARRATOR/JESTER
The knights of the round turtle! There was their leader
King Tortoise
who slowed everyone in their tracks.
King Tortoise appears in grand fashion.
NARRATOR/JESTER
And Nighty Knight who put his enemies to sleep.
Nighty Knight swings his sword and puts himself to sleep.
NARRATOR/JESTER
The Knight of Fire who holds the flaming sword forged in the
fire of Mount Wannahockaloogie.
Fire knight pulls out a glowing sword.
NARRATOR/JESTER
And finally there was Sir Hook... the knight who lost his
hand to a shark on a dare...
Cut to Sir Hook and another knight in a boat.
KNIGHT 3
I dare you to stick your hand in that shark's mouth.
HOOK
Okay.
Hook reaching down and loses him hand. All the knights
stand together.
NARRATOR/JESTER
And some other knights who will be named at a later time.
These knights wave.
NARRATOR/JESTER (CONT.)
All the knights were quite angry about the dragons destroying
the castles.
KING TORTOISE
We are quite angry.
Other knight shout in agreement.
HOOK
But how can we stop the dragons?
KNIGHT 2
We must stab them in the foot with the horn of a jackalope.
KNIGHT 3
Where are we going to find a jackalope?
KING TORTOISE
Follow me. I know where the foul beasts reside.
A jackalope comes out near a trail. Knights
charge. Jackalope looks at them. Then princesses appear the other
way skipping happily along. Jackalope turns to look at them.
Knights charge, jackalope looks, princesses skip. The knights reach the
jackalope and are about the do it in when the princesses jump in the way.
PRINCESS ROSE
Stop!
FIRE KNIGHT
What?
PRINCESS ROSE
You can't destroy this poor little innocent creature.
KNIGHT 2
Why not?
PRINCESS ROSE
Because he is soooo cuuuuute.
NIGHTY KNIGHT
Stand aside.
PRINCESS LILY
Never! We are princesses and you knights must do
whatever we say, right?
KNIGHT 4
Well... I guess so.
PRINCESS LILY
We command you to be friends with this little creature.
FIRE KNIGHT
What?!
PRINCESS LILY
Swear it!
KNIGHT 2
Fine, fine. Whatever.
KNIGHTS
We swear it.
PRINCESS ROSE
Good. Farewell little rabbit... thing.
Princesses skip away. Knights all grumble.
NIGHTY KNIGHT
He is kind of cute.
One knight
reaches out to the jackalopes but it bites his finger. Knights
look at each other. They yell and chase the jackalopes.
KNIGHT 5
Get him!
KNIGHTS
Ahhhh!
Knights run after jackalope.
PRINCESS ROSE
Wait!
FIRE KNIGHT 1
What?
PRINCESS ROSE
There must be another way.
KNIGHT 2
No... nothing else can defeat the dragons.
PRINCESS LILY
Yes, there is another way.
PRINCESS ROSE
We need help. We need magic.
Magicians appears.
MAGICIAN 1
Did someone say... magic!
PRINCESS LILY
Who are you?
MAGICIAN 2
We are magicians.
Magician reaches behind her ear
and produces a coin.
Knights clap excitedly.
KNIGHT 3
Amazing.
PRINCESS ROSE
Big deal.
MAGICIAN 1
How about this?
Magician 2 pulls out a deck of
cards.
MAGICIAN 2
Pick a card. Any card.
Princess Rose rolls her
eyes. A knight goes up and
picks one.
MAGICIAN 2 (CONT.)
Is that the... (names card knight
is holding).
KNIGHT 1
It is!
Knights all clap happily.
PRINCESS ROSE
Give me a break. That's not
magic.
MAGICIAN 1
How about this?
Magician take his/her hat and
waves hand over it.
MAGICIAN 3
Abra cadabra.
Magician 3 pulls a jackalope from
the hat.
KNIGHT 2
Oh, no.
NIGHTY KNIGHT
It's... it's...
KNIGHTS
A jackalope!
Jackalope takes off. The
knights chase after jackalope.
KNIGHT (CONT.)
Get him! Ahhhh!
Princess Rose sighs.
PRINCESS ROSE
Oh, great.
Princess Lily starts crying.
PRINCESS LILY
Now we don't have any knights to
defeat the
dragons.
Princess Rose breaks down crying
too and they hug.
MAGICIAN 1
Dragons eh? I have just the
thing you need.
PRINCESS ROSE
You do?
MAGICIAN 2
We know their weakness.
PRINCESS LILY
You do?
Magician 3 makes a block of
cheese appear.
MAGICIAN 3
Cheese!
PRINCESS ROSE
You've got to be kidding.
MAGICIAN
All dragons are lactose
intolerant.
PRINCESS LILY
I see.
Princess Rose and Magician appear
and sneak up with
Tacos. Rose looks at the block of cheese.
PRINCESS LILY
We need a knife.
Knights enter.
MAGICIAN 1
Will some hurry up and cut the
cheese?
Knights cut the cheese with their
swords. Princess Rose
puts it on the tacos. More dragon roaring. They hide.
DRAGON KING
Somebody brought us tacos.
LITTLE DRAGON
Yum, yum!
DRAGON KING
Wait! What's this?
Cheese!
Dragons choke and fall down. A couple of knights go up
and look at the dragons on the
ground.
KNIGHT #3
Did we kill them?
DRAGON KING
No, we just have bad tummy ache.
LITTLE DRAGON
Oooowwwwww!
MAGICIAN 1
We'll give you the magic drink if you promise to never
take another pretty thing.
DRAGONS
We promise.
Magician pulls out can of ginger ale or sprite.
MAGICIAN 2
Let me shake it up for you.
MAGICIAN 1
Wait. What is this on the baby dragon?
MAGICIAN 2
Fairy dust!
MAGICIAN 1
It's on Princess Rose too!
MAGICIAN 2
So the fairies are behind all the problem.
Fairies appear.
SUSIE
That's right. What are you going to do about it?
MAGICIAN 1
Magic box. Do your trick.
A box slides on to stage and fairies are pulled inside
it. (or it could be a pantomimed box and magicians could make it shrink)
Fairies are captured inside box. They shout and pout.
SUSIE
Let us out!
MAGICIAN 2
Only if you promise to be good.
SUSIE
We promise.
She crosses her fingers and other fairies laugh.
Magician lets them out. They laugh.
NARRATOR/JESTER
All was well in the kingdom again, until one day, Susie Sally
Sassafras got bored again.
SUSIE
I'm bored. Wouldn't it be funny if everyone couldn't
stop dancing?
Jester plays flute. All the
characters dance to the music.
END OF PLAY
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Purchasing a PDF of this script gives you the rights to use for:
Auditions
Classrooms
Workshops
Camps
If you use the script in a paid performance where admission is charged or in a competition, please pay the royalty:
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This royalty covers all performances that occur within one month's time.
IMPORTANT: Please be sure to get permission from your competition for the script before performing it.
See a movie version of the play:
Jester appears on the stage
and he is playing a happy tune on his flute (this can be pre-recorded and he
can pantomime playing). He can appear inside a cutout of a giant
storybook.
NARRATOR/JESTER
Once upon a time, there were
three families. There was
a family of princesses...
Princesses appear at one end of
the stage.
NARRATOR/JESTER (Cont.)
...a family of knights...
Knight appear on another part of
the stage.
NARRATOR/JESTER (Cont.)
...and a family of
dragons.
Dragons appear.
NARRATOR/JESTER (CONT.)
But then some fairies moved in and created all
sorts of trouble. Susie Sally Sassafras was the worst of all.
SUSIE
Peace is boring.
Other fairy nods.
SUSIE (CONT.)
Let's make things a little more interesting.
Susie and little fairy fly up to a little dragon who is playing with something pretty.
LITTLE DRAGON
I love pretty things.
SUSIE
Those things are ok. But do you know who has prettier
things than that?
LITTLE DRAGON
Who?
SUSIE
The princesses.
Susie throws fairy dust on the Little Dragon who
sneezes.
LITTLE DRAGON
Ah-chew!
SUSIE
That fairy dust will put you under my spell. You
will go to the castle and take the pretty things from the princesses.
The little fairy laughs.
Little Dragon SNEAKS inside CASTLE
NARRATOR/JESTER
The little dragon sneaked into the caste and took one of the
princess's pretty things.
LITTLE DRAGON
I love it!
PRINCESS 4
She took my pretty thing! Waaa!
LITTLE DRAGON
Ha! Ha!
The little dragon sneaks away. The princesses cry.
Susie
throws fairy dust on them.
SUSIE
You will take back your pretty thing and take all the
dragon's treasure.
Princess Rose sneezes and then looks mad.
PRINCESS ROSE
Aw-chew! Don't worry. We'll get your pretty thing
back.
Princesses skip up to a cave.
PRINCESS ROSE
Okay, now you go inside and get the pretty thing back.
PRINCESS LILY
Okay.
PRINCESS ROSE
Wait. And take all their other treasure too.
PRINCESS LILY
No.
PRINCESS ROSE
I dare you.
PRINCESS LILY
No.
PRINCESS ROSE
I double dare you.
PRINCESS LILY
No.
PRINCESS ROSE
I triple dragon dare you.
Princesses look shocked.
NARRATOR/JESTER
There's no way she could resist a triple dragon dare you.
PRINCESS LILY
Fine. But I get half the treasure.
PRINCESS ROSE
Deal.
Princess Lily goes in and sneaks up to dragon.
Dragons stir. She tries not to be afraid. She finds something
pretty, grabs it and comes out.
PRINCESS ROSE (Cont.)
I love it!
Dragons hear this and roar.
PRINCESS ROSE (CONT.)
Oooops.
Princesses run and hide behind a little cardboard/paper
castle. Dragons tear up their castle during the
following. Knights try fighting dragons. Princesses take more
treasure.
NARRATOR/JESTER
The dragons were mad at the
princesses and burned down their castle. The princesses took more
treasure so they could afford to
buy another castle. The dragons got mad and burned that castle too.
It never seemed to
end.
PRINCESS ROSE
Will this ever end?
KING TORTOISE
We'll help you.
NARRATOR/JESTER
The knights of the round turtle! There was their leader
King Tortoise
who slowed everyone in their tracks.
King Tortoise appears in grand fashion.
NARRATOR/JESTER
And Nighty Knight who put his enemies to sleep.
Nighty Knight swings his sword and puts himself to sleep.
NARRATOR/JESTER
The Knight of Fire who holds the flaming sword forged in the
fire of Mount Wannahockaloogie.
Fire knight pulls out a glowing sword.
NARRATOR/JESTER
And finally there was Sir Hook... the knight who lost his hand to a shark on a dare...
Cut to Sir Hook and another knight in a boat.
KNIGHT 3
I dare you to stick your hand in that shark's mouth.
HOOK
Okay.
Hook reaching down and loses him hand. All the knights
stand together.
NARRATOR/JESTER
And some other knights who will be named at a later time.
These knights wave.
NARRATOR/JESTER (CONT.)
All the knights were quite angry about the dragons destroying
the castles.
KING TORTOISE
We are quite angry.
Other knight shout in agreement.
HOOK
But how can we stop the dragons?
KNIGHT 2
We must stab them in the foot with the horn of a jackalope.
KNIGHT 3
Where are we going to find a jackalope?
KING TORTOISE
Follow me. I know where the foul beasts reside.
A jackalope comes out near a trail. Knights
charge. Jackalope looks at them. Then princesses appear the other
way skipping happily along. Jackalope turns to look at them.
Knights charge, jackalope looks, princesses skip. The knights reach the
jackalope and are about the do it in when the princesses jump in the way.
PRINCESS ROSE
Stop!
FIRE KNIGHT
What?
PRINCESS ROSE
You can't destroy this poor little innocent creature.
KNIGHT 2
Why not?
PRINCESS ROSE
Because he is soooo cuuuuute.
NIGHTY KNIGHT
Stand aside.
PRINCESS LILY
Never! We are princesses and you knights must do whatever we say, right?
KNIGHT 4
Well... I guess so.
PRINCESS LILY
We command you to be friends with this little creature.
FIRE KNIGHT
What?!
PRINCESS LILY
Swear it!
KNIGHT 2
Fine, fine. Whatever.
KNIGHTS
We swear it.
PRINCESS ROSE
Good. Farewell little rabbit... thing.
Princesses skip away. Knights all grumble.
NIGHTY KNIGHT
He is kind of cute.
One knight
reaches out to the jackalopes but it bites his finger. Knights
look at each other. They yell and chase the jackalopes.
KNIGHT 5
Get him!
KNIGHTS
Ahhhh!
Knights run after jackalope.
PRINCESS ROSE
Wait!
FIRE KNIGHT 1
What?
PRINCESS ROSE
There must be another way.
KNIGHT 2
No... nothing else can defeat the dragons.
PRINCESS LILY
Yes, there is another way.
PRINCESS ROSE
We need help. We need magic.
Magicians appears.
MAGICIAN 1
Did someone say... magic!
PRINCESS LILY
Who are you?
MAGICIAN 2
We are magicians.
Magician reaches behind her ear
and produces a coin.
Knights clap excitedly.
KNIGHT 3
Amazing.
PRINCESS ROSE
Big deal.
MAGICIAN 1
How about this?
Magician 2 pulls out a deck of
cards.
MAGICIAN 2
Pick a card. Any card.
Princess Rose rolls her
eyes. A knight goes up and
picks one.
MAGICIAN 2 (CONT.)
Is that the... (names card knight
is holding).
KNIGHT 1
It is!
Knights all clap happily.
PRINCESS ROSE
Give me a break. That's not
magic.
MAGICIAN 1
How about this?
Magician take his/her hat and
waves hand over it.
MAGICIAN 3
Abra cadabra.
Magician 3 pulls a jackalope from
the hat.
KNIGHT 2
Oh, no.
NIGHTY KNIGHT
It's... it's...
KNIGHTS
A jackalope!
Jackalope takes off. The
knights chase after jackalope.
KNIGHT (CONT.)
Get him! Ahhhh!
Princess Rose sighs.
PRINCESS ROSE
Oh, great.
Princess Lily starts crying.
PRINCESS LILY
Now we don't have any knights to
defeat the
dragons.
Princess Rose breaks down crying
too and they hug.
MAGICIAN 1
Dragons eh? I have just the
thing you need.
PRINCESS ROSE
You do?
MAGICIAN 2
We know their weakness.
PRINCESS LILY
You do?
Magician 3 makes a block of
cheese appear.
MAGICIAN 3
Cheese!
PRINCESS ROSE
You've got to be kidding.
MAGICIAN
All dragons are lactose
intolerant.
PRINCESS LILY
I see.
Princess Rose and Magician appear
and sneak up with
Tacos. Rose looks at the block of cheese.
PRINCESS LILY
We need a knife.
Knights enter.
MAGICIAN 1
Will some hurry up and cut the
cheese?
Knights cut the cheese with their
swords. Princess Rose
puts it on the tacos. More dragon roaring. They hide.
DRAGON KING
Somebody brought us tacos.
LITTLE DRAGON
Yum, yum!
DRAGON KING
Wait! What's this?
Cheese!
Dragons choke and fall down. A couple of knights go up
and look at the dragons on the
ground.
KNIGHT #3
Did we kill them?
DRAGON KING
No, we just have bad tummy ache.
LITTLE DRAGON
Oooowwwwww!
MAGICIAN 1
We'll give you the magic drink if you promise to never take another pretty thing.
DRAGONS
We promise.
Magician pulls out can of ginger ale or sprite.
MAGICIAN 2
Let me shake it up for you.
MAGICIAN 1
Wait. What is this on the baby dragon?
MAGICIAN 2
Fairy dust!
MAGICIAN 1
It's on Princess Rose too!
MAGICIAN 2
So the fairies are behind all the problem.
Fairies appear.
SUSIE
That's right. What are you going to do about it?
MAGICIAN 1
Magic box. Do your trick.
A box slides on to stage and fairies are pulled inside
it. (or it could be a pantomimed box and magicians could make it shrink)
Fairies are captured inside box. They shout and pout.
SUSIE
Let us out!
MAGICIAN 2
Only if you promise to be good.
SUSIE
We promise.
She crosses her fingers and other fairies laugh.
Magician lets them out. They laugh.
NARRATOR/JESTER
All was well in the kingdom again, until one day, Susie Sally
Sassafras got bored again.
SUSIE
I'm bored. Wouldn't it be funny if everyone couldn't
stop dancing?
Jester plays flute. All the characters dance to the music.
END OF PLAY
Purchase a low cost PDF from https://sellfy.com/p/Wcar/
Or you can purchase a Word document copy that includes the performance rights at https://sellfy.com/p/vjOx/
When you purchase a PDF, you may make as many photocopies as needed (but please do NOT repost the text online in any way).
Purchasing a PDF of this script gives you the rights to use for:
Auditions
Classrooms
Workshops
Camps
If you use the script in a paid performance where admission is charged or in a competition, please pay the royalty:
https://sellfy.com/p/1MQC/
This royalty covers all performances that occur within one month's time.
IMPORTANT: Please be sure to get permission from your competition for the script before performing it.
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