THE TRAGICAL, COMICAL, HISTORICAL,

ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO

by Christopher Krejci

This moving and familiar tale about a puppet, woodcarver, blue lady, and talking cricket is told in a new gender-inclusive way that references popular culture and borrows from different performance styles, including vaudeville, classic cartoons, silent film, and sketch comedy, to ask, “What does it mean to be human?”  Based on the 1883 children’s fantasy novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, The Tragical, Comical, Historical Adventures of Pinocchio was commissioned by Playmakers of Baton Rouge and produced with a mix of 27 professional and student actors as part of the 2011-2012 main stage season.  It was then workshopped and staged with 9 actors at the 2013 Patti Pace Festival as a keynote performance.

• Cast Size: 2M/TransM/NBM  2W/TransW/NBW  5-23+GENDER NEUTRAL
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Sample Coming Soon

Order Script Copies

Order Digital Download (Will NOT download to phones, cannot be printed)

APPLY FOR PERFORMANCE RIGHTS

About the Playwright

Christopher Krejci is a graduate of St. Edward’s University and received his doctorate in Theatre History and Dramatic Literature from Louisiana State University, where he was a Board of Regents Fellow. His plays have toured Louisiana and have been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Austin, Houston, and at Georgia Southern University, where he was a keynote artist for the 2013 Patti Pace Performance Festival. He is the founder of Outworks, a festival of new LGBTQ+ plays that ran for 10 years at Louisiana State University, and a member of the Dramatists Guild, ScriptWorks, and the Writer’s League of Texas. His short fiction can be found in the NonBinary Review, and he is currently working on a novel and poetry chapbook. He also writes English language arts curriculum, which has been published by Routledge in the series of Advanced Curriculum from the Center for Gifted Education at William and Mary. He has taught at Louisiana State University and Baton Rouge Community College and is a Professor of English at Temple College, where he has received the NISOD Excellence Award and the 2023 Claudia and W.T. Barnhart Teacher of the Year Award.