Lit on Fire: Twelve Short Parodies of Reading List Classics
By Hillary DePiano
Lit on Fire: Twelve Short Parodies of Reading List Classics is a play that needs 11 to 100 performers (6 women, 4 men). Licensed by YouthPLAYS.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 11 to 100 performers
- Roles
- 6 women, 4 men
- Cast notes
- (flexible). 6+ females, 4+ males (11-100+ performers possible—8 or fewer if not all 12 plays are produced). High school and older performers (with many plays being
- Running time
- About 130 minutes
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- YouthPLAYS
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Synopsis
They may have appeared on your high school reading list, or maybe only in your nightmares, but now twelve YouthPLAYS authors are striking a match and burning down the classics...with their pens and computer keyboards. Whether it's the complete works of Jane Austen gone full-on Hollywood, Count Dracula as a cafeteria cook, or Huck Finn running away from his story only to have it catch up with him again—to name just a few—get ready to light up the literary canon with this scorchingly funny new col
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