Bring the Magic of Atlantis to Your Classroom, Living Room, or the Stage!
The Lost City of Atlantis is far more than a Readers’ Theater script; it is a professionally written theatrical play. Whether you are a middle school drama teacher searching for the perfect classroom production, a professional or amateur theater director preparing your next show, or a parent looking for a captivating, screen-free family performance… This 13-book series transforms everyone who steps into its world into the true heroes of the deep.
Why Educators & Drama Coaches Love This Series
Our unique hybrid format seamlessly blends the immersive depth of a fantasy storybook with the fast-paced, dialogue-driven structure of a contemporary script. It is meticulously crafted to meet the needs of modern educators and youth theater directors:
- Boosts Literacy & Fluency: Designed perfectly for middle-grade readers, the dialogue-driven format improves reading fluency, comprehension, and public speaking confidence without the pressure of heavy memorization.
- Flexible Casting for Any Group Size: From the human world above to the depths of the ocean, the diverse cast of characters—including human heroes, witty sea creatures, and legendary figures—can be performed as traditional plays, puppet shows, or shadow theater.
Dynamic Staging & Narrative Techniques
Select installments in the series introduce students to advanced, contemporary theatrical devices without requiring complex set changes:
- Split-Scene Acting: Tell Me a Tale and Tree of Life utilize a professional dual-stage layout, with Atlas’s bedroom on one side and the underwater kingdom on the other. This structure is ideal for teaching fluid lighting transitions, simultaneous staging, and parallel storytelling.
- Theatrical Prologues: Tree of Life features a cinematic-style prologue performed in front of the curtain (avant-scène) before the main action begins, creating a powerful atmospheric opening while introducing students to professional staging conventions.
- Time-Loop & Déjà-Vu Effects: Time Spiral introduces a time-bending theatrical structure in which scenes repeat, shift, and subtly transform on stage. This provides students with a unique opportunity to develop precision acting, timing, continuity awareness, and memory skills.
Stress-Free Production: Costumes & Set Design
We believe that bringing an underwater kingdom to life shouldn’t require a Broadway budget. The world of Atlantis is designed to be highly accessible and budget-friendly for school productions and family night games:
- No-Sew, Budget-Friendly Costumes: You won’t need professional tailors. With the exception of Charlotte, nearly all character costumes can be easily purchased from local Halloween stores. The Atlantean characters and colorful sea creatures are designed so their visual essence can be effortlessly recreated using affordable, off-the-rack pieces or simple DIY classroom crafts.
- Creative Freedom in Character Design: Whether your cast wears scale-textured bodysuits, sports simple themed accessories, or brings the characters to life through creative puppetry, the choice is entirely left to the director’s and readers’ imaginations.
- Immersive Lighting Over Expensive Sets: Forget heavy, expensive wooden sets. The transition between the mundane human world and the golden alloy structures of Atlantis is achieved through simple, atmospheric blue and green lighting effects, making it ideal for limited stage spaces or classroom settings.
Explore the Performance Guides
Ready to direct your first expedition to the deep? Click below to access our specific staging resources, breakdown charts, and estimated running times for each installment:
BOOK 1 Performance Guide
BOOK 2 Performance Guide
BOOK 3 Performance Guide
BOOK 4 Performance Guide
Production Licensing & Performance Rights
To officially stage or perform any installment from The Lost City of Atlantis book series before an audience, educational institutions, drama clubs, and theater groups must secure a performance license prior to production.
- Classroom & Educational Exemption: No licensing fees or formal permissions are required for internal classroom readings, academic text analyses, educational workshops, rehearsal processes, or non-public student activities. Educators and students are fully encouraged to freely explore, read, and work on the play scripts within an instructional environment.
- Public Performance Licensing: A formal performance license is strictly mandatory for official school productions, ticketed shows, festival appearances, public performances, or any filmed presentations where the work is broadcast online.
- Exclusive Educational Rates: Production licensing fees for educational institutions start at $50 USD per performance. The license scope and final rate may vary based on the scale of the production, venue capacity, number of scheduled performances, and the staging format.
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