Tuck Everlasting Play Script [FAST]

Note: This is an original dramatic adaptation for educational or audition use. For performance rights to the official Tuck Everlasting stage musical or play, please contact Dramatists Play Service or Music Theatre International.

(She looks at the bottle, then at Angus.) But if I drink it… I’ll never see the first wrinkle on my mother’s hand. Or watch my father’s hair turn gray. Or know what it feels like to be old, and tired, and ready. tuck everlasting play script

(Quietly.) No. You just have to be afraid of everything . Because nothing ever ends. And that, my boy, is the longest fear of all. Note: This is an original dramatic adaptation for

(She turns the bottle over.) Never? Not even… when I’m old? Or watch my father’s hair turn gray

I’ve watched my own boy here stay seventeen while the world grew up and left him behind. I’ve watched my wife, Mae, hum the same lullaby for eighty years because she can’t remember a new one. We ain’t blessed, Winnie Foster. We’re a photograph. Pretty to look at. But you can’t step inside.

(Softer, taking her hand.) That’s the best part.

A small clearing in the woods near Treegap. A large ash tree with a spring bubbling at its roots. Late afternoon light.