Individual plays in our Children's Play Production Series may be purchased as a packet of 10 scripts plus rights to produce the play for $50 plus $10 postage & handling, or as a packet of 10 scripts, a how-to produce and direct manual, and rights to produce the play for $60 plus $10 postage and handling. 

The Time Machine
Adapted from the H.G. Wells classic by Shannon Michal Dow

  (Basic cast of 10, allows for any number of extras, running time: 20-25 minutes)

  This adaptation of THE TIME MACHINE is designed specifically for elementary-aged children to perform and produce.  A wonderful learning and educational tool.  Perfect for school productions, amateur and professional children’s theatre classes, and summer theatre classes.

 Synopsis
An idealistic inventor who believes mankind’s future will be a paradise without any hardships builds a time machine.  Ridiculed by his friends who see his invention as a pipe dream, the inventor tests the time machine when he is alone.  It whisks him 800,000 years into the future to a world that seems to be the very kind of Garden of Eden he envisioned – a land of incredible natural beauty, gentle people called the Eloi, and great architectural achievements.  But when the inventor looks closely, he sees that the buildings are crumbling into ruins, and the Eloi are more childlike than they are enlightened, creative geniuses.

  And there is something else – something that lives underground during the day, but comes in the dark.  Something that terrifies the Eloi.  Something that takes them away one by one.  Something they call Moorlocks.  The Moorlocks steal the inventor’s only way home – his time machine.  As the inventor seeks out his time machine in the vast caverns beneath the land of the Eloi, he learns the future’s most terrible secret.  The Moorlocks are the humans who chose to live underground and now, centuries later, consider the Eloi nothing more than cattle.

  Fighting his way out of the underground maze, the inventor discovers his time machine has been returned.  But this is only a trick by the Moorlocks in an effort to capture him.  Evading them, the inventor leaps into his invention and returns to his own time with nothing but a flower given to him by one of the Eloi as proof of his incredible journey.