This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "Little Women," adapted for the stage by Paulette Laufer and based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains seven activity sheets for use in class, addressing: (1) From Novel to Stage Play (with background information about the story setting and the change from novel to play); (2) Characters and Resources (describing the characters and showing how three actors play the 10 roles); (3) Costumes (how characters' costumes reveal age, social status and attitudes); (4) Lines (from the play, with questions to discuss); (5) Adapting a Novel for the Stage/Script It! (getting a feel for the playwright adapter's job by trying some adaptation); (6) Your Script; and (7) Rigmarole (telling a story by playing Jo's favorite game) and The Final Collaborator (looking at the audience's role). (SR)