The Tomb of King Tot
by Olivia Dufault

Name: The Tomb of King Tot
Brand: Olivia Dufault
SKU: 9780573705946
Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

Male

75 mins Present Day Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Jane Haley is the punny voice of the comic strip “King Tot,” a three-panel strip about a nine-year-old pharaoh in Ancient Egypt.

Jane has just been nominated for the Chuckling Willow, the single most important award for female cartoonists in New England.

All seems to be going well until bleak news strikes the Haley household.

As Jane tries to hide her coping by working extensively on her comics, her art suffers as her main character tries to find his way through the Land of the Dead to find his “mummy.”

Playwright Olivia Dufault pairs humor with heartache in this exploration of the processing of grief.

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Mummy mummy (f)	—	—	mummy (f)
Atlanta Haley teenage girl (f) also plays	—	—	teenage girl (f) also plays
King Tot Egyptian boy-king (f)	male	—	Egyptian boy-king (f)
Porter Haley late-thirties step-father (m) also plays	male	—	late-thirties step-father (m) also plays
Horemheb Egyptian slave (m)	—	—	Egyptian slave (m)
Kissy Candida late-thirties cartoonist (f) also plays	—	—	late-thirties cartoonist (f) also plays
Alligator-Woman alligator-woman (f)	female	—	alligator-woman (f)
Lionel Feather early-sixties cartoonist (m) also plays	—	—	early-sixties cartoonist (m) also plays
Anubis jackal-headed king of the dead (m)	male	—	jackal-headed king of the dead (m)
Jane Haley late-thirties cartoonist (f) also plays	—	—	late-thirties cartoonist (f) also plays