Tracy Beaker Gets Real!
- Full Length Musical, Drama, Adaptations (Literature), TYA, Contemporary
- 2M, 4F, 10M or F
- ISBN: 9780573180415
The most popular teenager in Britain come to the stage! Tracy Beaker Gets Real has been adapted by Mary Morris with music by Grant Olding from one of the most successful children's books ever, Jacqueline Wilson's The Story of Tracy Beaker.
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Description
- Full Length Musical
- Drama, Adaptations (Literature), TYA
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
The most popular teenager in Britain come to the stage! Tracy Beaker Gets Real has been adapted by Mary Morris with music by Grant Olding from one of the most successful children's books ever, Jacqueline Wilson's The Story of Tracy Beaker.
We join Tracy, aged 15, as she returns to the "Dumping Ground" and looks back on the last four years of her life, from being fostered -- and dumped -- and fostered again, to finding a happy, if not altogether harmonious home with writer Cam. When Tracy's mother unexpectedly reappears in her life, Tracy hopes that her days of being passed around like a parcel are over, but she soon comes to realize that the people she has always tried to push away are the ones she really needs the most.
Touching and very funny, this play brings Tracy Beaker's trademark talent for troublemaking, fun and friendship to any production.
Touching and very funny, this play brings Tracy Beaker's trademark talent for troublemaking, fun and friendship to any production.
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 4F, 10M or F
- Casting Notes: Throughout the play the characters go back and forward in time to show the events in their past. If a large young cast is wanted the director may choose to cast a young Tracy and an older Tracy. Ditto the other young characters. Extra non-speaking "kids" can be cast if desired.
JUSTINE LITTLEWOOD - Same ages as Tracy. Haughty, smart, and nearly as evil as Tracy.
PETER - A year younger than Tracy. Quiet, easily shoved around, but he will follow his star -- when he finds out where it is.
LOUISE - Same age as Tracy. A pretty girl who wants everyone to be happy and get along. (Can be played by the actor who plays Mum)
ELAINE THE PAIN - Social worker. A likeable, well-meaning bungler with little intuition and a lot of knowledge.
MUM - Self-deceiving, unreliable, with poor impulse control. She never had a good mother to teach her how to be a good mother.
CAM - Writer. Bookish, clever, steady. Spontaneous as long as she has a week's notice.
TED
JULIE
WORM SCENE KIDS
STAN
VI
MARGARET
MARK
JUSTINE'S DAD
LADY WRITER
