The Spindle — Carolyn Gage

This play is simply brilliant-in its construct, its characters and its dialogue.-Sacramento Art and Entertainment Examiner. A children's theatre play for adults! As thirteen-year old Doko struggles to rescue her best friend the Princess Beauty from the curse that says she will be pricked by a spindle before her sixteenth birthday, the adults in the play grapple with the denial about child sexual abuse that holds the kingdom in a tyrant's thrall.