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Martina: Lost and Found

  • R.N. Sandberg
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Drama
  • 3M, 4F, 6M or F
  • ISBN: MF2

"A treasure to parents and educators searching for a way to make sense out of the confusion all children face."

St. Louis Magazine

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy, Drama
  • 65 minutes

  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences, Young Audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
Martina is an almost teenager who knows her life is simply the worst. Her face is breaking out. Her hair is monstrous. Her life is unfair. Her world is full of pressures, boundaries and contradictions. When she slams the door to her room and yells that she wants everybody to get out of her life, her "wish" is granted.

Martina's waking nightmare journey brings her face to face with scary street people, a gang of raucous crows, a mythic makeover witch and other monstrous figures grown large out of her everyday life. Originally conceived and premiered by Metro Theater Company under the title Frankenstein's Children, the play is based on interviews with kids 10 to 18 years old. It is guided by the fact that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein as a teen who had run away from home to escape to a new, better life, and that in her book, Frankenstein's "child" is a violent, intelligent, vulnerable, misunderstood monster.

Martina: Lost and Found is a fantastical, realistic whirlwind about confronting fears and important choices to set a course of growth and responsibility. 

REVIEWS:

"A treasure to parents and educators searching for a way to make sense out of the confusion all children face."

St. Louis Magazine

"The play packed a wallop right up to the end... Boys and girls alike found their own stories in Martina's journey... [it] really spoke to the heart of their emotional world."

Carol North, Artistic Director, Metro Theater Company

  • Casting: 3M, 4F, 6M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)

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Martina is an almost teenager who knows her life is simply the worst. Her face is breaking out. Her hair is monstrous. Her life is unfair. Her world is full of pressures, boundaries and contradictions. When she slams the door to her room and yells that she wants everybody to get out of her life, her ewishe is granted. Martinaes waking nightmare journey brings her face to face with scary street people, a gang of raucous crows, a mythic makeover witch and other monstrous figures grown large out of her everyday life. Originally conceived and premiered by Metro Theater Company under the title Frankensteines Children, the play is based on interviews with kids 10 to 18 years old. It is guided by the fact that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein as a teen who had run away from home to escape to a new, better life, and that in her book, Frankensteines echilde is a violent, intelligent, vulnerable, misunderstood monster. Martina: Lost and Found is a fantastical, realistic whirlwind about confronting fears and important choices to set a course of growth and responsibility. Unit set. Approximate running time: 65 minutes.

$19.95