The Unscary Ghost
By Matt Buchanan
The Unscary Ghost is a play that needs 13 to 30 performers (5 women, 3 men, 8 any gender). Licensed by YouthPLAYS.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 13 to 30 performers
- Roles
- 5 women, 3 men, 8 any gender
- Cast notes
- 5 females, 3 males, 8+ any gender (13-30+ performers possible).
- Running time
- About 45 minutes
- Recommended level
- Middle school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- YouthPLAYS
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Synopsis
Loosely based on Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost . When the Otis family moves into the old Victorian home in Canterville, Ohio, they soon learn that the place is haunted. Only nobody in this jaded, modern family finds the ghost remotely frightening. The ghost, Simon Canter by name, is humiliated and frustrated by his attempts to live up to his assigned task of frightening people, while the family alternately taunts him and tries to exploit him, even trying to get a spot on the hit TV show, A
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