The Neverending Story

Adapted by David S. Craig, based on the novel by Michael Ende.

Hiding in the attic of his school, Bastian begins to read and, 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 an unlikely hero, Atreyu, a boy of Bastian’s age, 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.  But in the end, it is not Atreyu who is the hero.  At the climax of the story, it is Bastian’s belief in a story, which takes the audience to the surprising and emotional conclusion.

This adaptation of The Neverending Story has been authorized by Verlag fur Kindertheater Weitrndorf, Hamburg.