The Neverending Story
By David S. Craig & Hawksley Workman
BASED UPON THE NOVEL BY MICHAEL ENDE
Hiding in the attic of his school, Bastian begins to read a myserious book. Unseen to him, the story is enacted below. Fantastica, a land of stories, is in danger. The Nothing engulfs everything in its path. The Childlike Empress chooses Atreyu, a boy of Bastian’s age, as her unikely hero, to go on a quest to save their world. Atreyu’s adventure takes him through the Swamps of Sadness, to Morla the Turtle, Ygramul the Many, and the Maze of the Southern Oracle. He loses his horse, Artax, but gains the friendship of Falkor the Luck Dragon, until he faces the Werewolf Gmork who is bent on the destruction, not only of Fantastica but of imagination itself. However, it is not Atreyu who is the hero. It is Bastian’s commitment to the power of imagination which allows him to step into the story and carry the audience to its surprising conclusion.
This adaptation of The Neverending Story has been authorized by Verlag fur Kindertheater Weitrndorf, Hamburg.
For Family (all ages). May be expanded to a cast of 18 +
