Clara and the Mermaids • A Radio Play

Episode 3 of the Sandy Hunter Saga

Twelve-year-old Clara doesn’t know what she wants to be, but she knows doesn’t want to be a miniature version of her mother, Sandy Hunter Gentry. Clara imitates those around her, including a shy girl named Paisley, and her pretending leads her into the world of drama and theatre. She adapts and performs her own version of Hans Cristian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and stage manages her elementary school production of Disney’s musical version. Clara comprehends how the mermaid lost her voice by changing herself for others and how she found peace by being true to herself and her instincts. This third story in the Sandy Hunter Saga, presented through letters, emails, and text messages, and inter-personal scenes and written to be presented as a radio broadcast, takes place 37 years after Sandy and the Weird Sisters and brings the story full circle as Sandy shares her twelve-year-old self with her own twelve-year-old daughter.

This Radio Version can be used as a ZOOM Performance, as a Reader’s Theatre (with or without social distancing) or a fully staged production, or a staged radio play.

Available for production!

OTHER TITLES IN THE SANDY HUNTER SAGA

Episode 1: Sandy and the Weird Sisters PLAY VERSION • PRINT NOVEL
Episode 2: Sandy and the Dance of Faith PLAY VERSION • PRINT NOVEL
Episode 3: Clara and the Mermaids PRINT NOVEL • ZOOM PLAY • MULTI-VENUE PLAY • HOUR-LONG VERSION

PLAY DETAILS

Cast of Characters – 2g, 1b, 3w
- Clara Gentry – A twelve-year-old girl with short hair and long imagination
  Sandy Gentry – Clara’s mother who writes to her daughter and shares her twelve-year-old self
  Paisley York – Clara’s sixth grade friend who has kept a secret
  Britain York – Clara’s younger brother, a fourth-grader and a gentleman
  Mrs. York – Paisley and Britain’s mother
  Mrs. Hamilton – Director of the elementary school production of The Little Mermaid Jr (May be doubled with Mrs. York)
No costumes or setting needed unless you are doing the show in front of a live audience for radio broadcast, then there are several simple settings that can be easily indicated. Costumes are contemporary.
PERFORMANCE LENGTH: 30 minutes
Order # 3255.2

PERUSAL MATERIALS

PURCHASE REHEARSAL MATERIALS:

(Any PDF purchased will be emailed to your email address — if you need to provide that to us (not the one on your PayPal account?), email us. CDs will be mailed to a snail mail address. Do not purchase rehearsal materials or pay for royalties until you have performance clearance.)

- Script in PDF format — Order#3255a : $20.00 (from which you will be authorized to copy for your production)
- First Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #3255d : $40
- Second Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #3255e : $35

Professional Royalties will be quoted upon application (below)
Performance License Application: No production rights can be granted until this application is filled out and sent to us. This is a filler form that after you click “SUBMIT” will send directly to our email address. Response averages 2-3 business days.

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PRODUCTIONS

Open Eye Theatre, Margaretville, New York — 2021, broadcast on WIOX in Roxbury, NY

BILLING CREDITS

The following is how the credits should read in all programs, posters, fliers, handbills and other promotional advertising for the show:

Clara and the Mermaids
A Radio Play

adapted from his novel

by
J.D. Newman

NOTE: The names of the Playwright(s), Composer, Lyricist, and Bookwriter shall be equal in size, type, coloring, boldness, and prominence. No billing shall appear in type larger or more prominent than the billing to the Authors except for the title of the play. (In a press release all type, will of course, be the same size.)

ALSO:

THIS NOTICE MUST APPEAR IN ALL PROGRAMS, ON ALL POSTERS AND PUBLICITY MATERIALS AND INTERNET ADVERTISING/WEBPAGES FOR THE PLAY:
“Clara and the Mermaids: The Radio Play is presented through special arrangement with Leicester Bay Theatricals. All authorized materials are also supplied by LBT, www.leicesterbaytheatricals.com”

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