Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

by Timothy Mason

Aladdin, a loveable yet lazy boy, brings equal amounts of grief and delight to his widowed mother. Soon enough, the sorcerer tricks him into embarking on an adventure to find a magical lamp. Along the way, Aladdin faces many challenges and narrowly avoids demise with the help of a few friends along the way. Aladdin uses the lamp to win over the love of the princess but it doesn't take long for the sorcerer to mess things up. Will Aladdin defeat the sorcerer and restore the kingdom?

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Quick Details

  • Type: Play
  • Length: 75-90 minutes | Can be cut for competition
  • Availability: Available for productions worldwide
  • Cast Size: 18 roles + ensemble | Doubling possible

Full Details

Roles:

  • SORCEROR (The Maghrabi)
  • VOICE OF THE SAND (The Oracle)
  • DABBA (Slave of the Sorcerer)
  • FATMAA (Widow of Mustafa Ali)
  • ALADDIN (Son of Mustafa Ali)
  • HASSAN (Friend of Aladdin)
  • CAREEM (Friend of Aladdin)
  • ALI (Friend of Aladdin)
  • ABDO (Friend of Aladdin)
  • ABDUL (Fruit Vendor)
  • EUNUCH (Servant of the Sultan)
  • ABDEL-A-TEEF (Cloth Merchant)
  • JINN OF THE RING (Daughter of Rokh)
  • JINN OF THE LAMP (Son of Rokh)
  • PRINCESS BADR-AL-BUDUR (Daughter of the Sultan)
  • SULTAN HARUN-AR-RASHID (Ruler of Al-Kalas)
  • GRAND WEZIR ACHMED (Servant of the Sultan)
  • LAMPSELLER

Ensemble includes servants, attendants, ambassadors, petitioners, and people of Al-Kalas

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Timothy Mason

Timothy Mason's musical adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (music by Mel Marvin) has become a seasonal hit on Broadway and on tour. His plays have been produced in New York by Circle Rep (including The Fiery Furnace starring Julie Harris and Babylon Gardens with Mary-Louise Parker and Timothy Hutton). Other plays have been produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Victory Gardens, Portland Stage, the Jungle Theatre and the Guthrie Theatre Lab. Mason has an ongoing collaboration with A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory, (Ascension Day, The Less Than Human Club, Time On Fire, Mullen's Alley and, in progress, My Life In The Silents). Mason's first novel, a fantasy-adventure for kids called The Last Synapsid, is being published by Delacorte Press. He has won the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, the W. Alton Jones Foundation Award, the Berilla Kerr Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Award and the National Society of Arts and Letters Award.

Originally commissioned and produced by Children's Theatre Company in 1977

Reviews

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Timothy Mason’s adaptation of the ‘Arabian Nights’ tale is a fluent, neatly constructed script in which colloquialism is flavored with just enough archaic language to keep things in touch with the atmosphere of the ancient story.

- St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Mason has written the perfect script.

- Star Tribune