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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME	Add to Cart
By: Craig W. Stump	Add to Wish List

Script: $9.00

(Available in hard copy or digital download—choose at checkout)

Notebook Script: $16.75

(8.5 x 11 3-ring binder with large margins for notes)

First Performance Royalty: $75.00

Each Additional Performance: $75.00

Limited Video Rights: $50.00

Limited Streaming/Broadcast Rights: $50.00

Extra Streams: $0.50

Artwork Image Download: $30.00

Personalized Poster: $2.50

Type: Full Length Play

Genres: Comedy, Classics

Theme: Classic Adaptations

Running Time: 100 minutes

Speaking Cast: 12 females, 12 males, 24 total cast

Flexibility: gender flexible

ISBN: 978-1-61588-075-1

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Customer Comments:

By Cara Barnett - Director - California School for the Deaf Fremont

Loved the play, along with narrators-made it easy for audience to follow what is happening in the story. The script makes us easy to translate from English to American Sign Language. The cast had fabulous time with the script, making it come alive on stage. The script is also easy on the struggling readers to understand the story. Thanks.

By Melissa Fisher - Director - Carroll High School

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Craig Stump was a creative and wonderful script to work with. We were able to assign parts for all 55 students who tried out. Our stage managers designed an elaborate set and the actors each got to say a line and we were able to give enough parts out to help the students get more comfortable on stage. This is a play for all audiences - the adults loved did, as did the students. The hilarious narrators, Cheese and Souffle, had enough dialogue to get the stage set up with little lag time!

By Debbi Sulzberger - Director - GLMS Drama

What a delightful time we had doing this play! Craig is auch an AMAZING and talented writer! It is very comical, yet tells such a beautiful tale that the Middle School adored it. Additionally we were able to easily adapt the play to our very large cast! We had 4 sold out shows with standing room only. I am looking forward to reading more from Craig in the future! THANKS!

By Staci John - Director - Conestoga Valley High School

This is a wonderfully written, hilarious play that supports a large cast and creative sets. The playwright, Craig Stump, did an amazing job with developing the characters, providing comic relief, addressing set concerns, while staying true to this historical tale that is full of morals applicable to today's society. After reading several scripts, this play won my vote because of the cast, the message, and the production notes. It was a huge success and I would highly recommend others consider it as a potential for their productions.

By Ryan Thompson - Director - Adams Central High School, Monroe, IN

Last month, our high school drama department presented "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" written by Craig W. Stump. The play received a wonderful response from the students, faculty, staff and surrounding school community.

Many great comments were received as all who watched enjoyed the mix of drama, romance, and comedy.

Your company's friendly customer service and prompt delivery is greatly appreciated and we look forward to ordering again in the future.

Synopsis

Quasimodo, a deformed but lovable man, has spent his entire life within the walls of the cathedral of Notre Dame. With some urging from two zany nuns, he attends the Festival of Fools. Though he is crowned the King of Fools (the ugliest person at the festival), his guardian, Archdeacon Frollo, is enormously displeased with Quasimodo. Frollo forbids Quasimodo to leave Notre Dame again. Also at the festival are La Esmeralda, the gypsy queen, and Pierre Gringoire, a playwright. Frollo is taken by La Esmeralda's beauty and determines to have her, sending the guards after the gypsy queen to capture her. Both Quasimodo and Gringoire attempt to save La Esmeralda, resulting in Quasimodo's two-day punishment in the town square without food or water and Gringoire's narrow escape from hanging by the peasants' Court of Miracles. La Esmeralda helps them both, giving Quasimodo water and saving Gringoire from hanging by marrying him. Frollo, desperately jealous, stabs Gringoire and frames La Esmeralda. Though La Esmeralda is sentenced to death, Quasimodo saves her, taking her into the cathedral of Notre Dame and sanctuary. Frollo again tries to attack La Esmeralda and Gringoire, who has survived the stabbing, but falls to his death from the top of Notre Dame. Then it is up to the King and Queen of France to determine La Esmeralda's guilt or innocence...

Two narrators, Souffle and his hyperactive younger brother, Cheese, relate this adaptation of Victor Hugo's French literary classic, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and provide comic relief to this otherwise serious story. Other humorous characters and some judicious editing of this classic tale make it an enjoyable experience for the whole family!