Flora and Ulysses the Play based on the book by Kate DiCamillo

Flora & Ulysses

Written by John Glore
Based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo

Can a little squirrel change the human heart? After getting sucked up by a vacuum cleaner, a (now hairless) squirrel is rescued by Flora Belle Buckman, a 10-year-old self-proclaimed cynic. She names him Ulysses and discovers he has been reborn a superhero. Indeed, this once average squirrel can suddenly understand Flora, fly, and even write poetry. Together they embark on an adventure full of quirky characters and bursting with heart.

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Quick Details

  • Type: Play
  • Length: 75 minutes | Can be cut for competition
  • Availability: Available for productions worldwide
  • Cast Size: 7-12 characters

Full Details

Can be doubled for a cast as small as 7

Roles:

  • Flora: a ten-year-old girl
  • Tootie Tickham: her neighbor
  • Donald Tickham: Tootie's husband, an off-stage voice
  • Ulysses: a squirrel
  • Phyllis Buckman: Flora's mother
  • George Buckman: Flora's father
  • William Spiver: an eleven year old boy
  • Dr. Meescham: elderly woman
  • Rita: waitress at Do-Nut World
  • Ernie: cook at Do-Nut World
  • Mr. Klaus: a cat
  • Alfred T. Slipper: aka The Amazing Incandesto

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The following resources are included in each performance license:
  • Permission to photocopy the PDF script for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.

The following resources may be added to you license for an additional fee:
  • Logo/Media package

John Glore

John Glore writes plays (adaptations and original work for young audiences and plays for adults), fiction and non-fiction prose (short- and long-form). He was until recently the associate artistic director of Tony Award-Winning South Coast Repertory in Southern California, where he worked for 31 years to help plan and implement the artistic and literary work of the company. He served as co-director of SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival and oversaw the programming of the company's Theatre for Young Audiences series, to which he contributed numerous plays. With the performance trio Culture Clash he co-authored adaptations of two plays by Aristophanes, The Birds and Peace. His plays have been seen at Berkeley Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, The Round House Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Company, First Stage, Childsplay, Oregon Children’s Theatre, the Getty Villa, Imagination Stage in Washington, D.C., the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, and many others. He received a Playwrights Fellowship from the California Arts Council, won the inaugural Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville for his 10-minute play, What She Found There, and received the Kennedy Center's Roger L. Stevens Award and a Theatre Visions Award from the Laurie Foundation for his full-length On the Jump.

Originally produced by South Coast Repertory in 2017

Preview the Show

Flora & Ulysses at Wheelock Family Theatre

Reviews

“

The best play I’ve seen all year.

- Stage and Cinema
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Flora & Ulysses is well scripted with rich characters and a few fun twists and turns in the plot. While it's very funny, with several laugh out loud moments, it also smartly features several topics that are not often present in your traditional youth theatre show but that prove incredibly relevant to both children and adults.

- Talkin' Broadway

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