Vanguard Theatre Ensemble (Fullerton, CA).

Comedy.  55-60 minutes.  3-4 males, 2-3 females.  Suitable for all ages.  First performance:  $60.  Each additional performance:  $35 (this includes permission to make copies of the script as necessary for your production.)  Professional rights should be negotiated directly with YouthPLAYS at info@youthplays.com.

Aurelia’s Magic was first produced (under its original title, Dancing on a Grave) by the Vanguard Theatre (Fullerton, CA) and later at the Garden Grove Playhouse, Garden Grove CA.  Readers Theater Television produced Dancing on a Grave, and a radioplay adaptation was produced by Shoestring Radio Theatre and was broadcast on 111 other stations across the United States through the National Public Radio system.

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Vanguard Theatre Ensemble (Fullerton, CA).

Young Aurelia, age 14, can’t wait to be an adult.  And then she comes upon Seavus, a fairy, who claims he can grant her that wish.  Soon, whenever life throws her difficulties, she wishes for time to race by--until she's become an old woman regretting that she never had time to savor the good things in her life. Seavus then confesses that he is a fake and never had the magical power to accelerate time.  It is only from her perspective, looking back, that time seems to have raced by. As Seavus puts it, all of humankind seems to be “dancing on a grave, about to fall in at any moment.”