Kaleidoscopic Kingdoms
Emma Spires
Genre: Comedic Drama
Cast size: 26
Duration: 45 mins approx
Emma Spires | Young Cast | Comedic Drama | One Act | 6m, 7f, 13m/f plus large supporting cast
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‘Kaleidoscopic Kingdoms’ is a One Act play and is the sequel to ‘Jesse and the Bookkeepers’. It will work as a stand alone play, but could also be performed as part of the trilogy.
It’s Jesse’s birthday, and despite the disappointment at being given a coding book rather than a phone, she discovers a mysterious present that she realises is from Tioni Moon and informs her friends that they need to go to the library as soon as school has finished.
Meanwhile on Mount Olympus, computers are taking the places of scrolls and Tioni and Artemis are convinced there is something not right, but one thing they are sure of is that it involves Ares, the God of War, and his new assistant Kal. Artemis, Apollo and Tioni reveal to Athena and Zeus that they have discovered Kal is short for Kaleidoscopic and that Ares is up to no good. Once Tioni has left, Athena learns that Tioni, Stella and Tiernan are Zeus’s children and are in fact demi-gods.
Back at school, Jesse tells Emily and Sam all about the library, Tioni and the Bookkeepers, but is interrupted when their teacher introduces them to a new student called Kali, whose father works for Kaleidoscopic Studios. The children invite Kali to join them in the library later, where they meet Tioni, Smudge and the Bookkeepers and begin to realise that Kaleidoscopic Studios is run by none other than Ares himself.
Ares has taken over phone companies, news channels, computers, gaming and movie channels and he soon reveals that Kal is in fact an artificial intelligence and is all around us. Anyone who has one of his phones or any of these devices will be under his control. Fortunately, Jesse doesn’t have a phone, and whilst a battle is fought between Gods and Demi-Gods, Jesse is able to save the day with her coding book…..but at what cost?
‘Kaleidoscopic Kingdoms’ is designed so that it can be a cast of many, with an additional ensemble for school children and AI children, or few with the use of multi-roling, and other characters can be cast to suit the setting and genders. It is written so that it can also be rehearsed in isolated sections should you have a large cast, and the set can be large scale or small scale. It is a mixture of comedy and action so as to appeal to a varied audience.
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