Across the Plains: The Journey of the Palace Wagon Family
Product Code: A70000
Full-length Play
Drama
Cast size: 2m., 3w. Expandable to 12 roles, plus extras as desired.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Awards: The Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award
Rights and availability
This title can be licensed and sold throughout the World.
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Synopsis
Based on actual letters, diaries, magazine and newspaper articles of the period, this play follows young Virginia Reed and her family on their journey from Illinois to California as part of a wagon train that became known as the "Martyr Pioneers." Folk songs combine with dramatic action to recreate moments both typical of the 19th-century's vast migration and unique to the courageous struggle of members of the Donner Party, who were trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the ferocious winter of 1846-47. Commissioned by the Coterie Theatre, Across the Plains was selected for the Kennedy Center's New Visionsew Voices program and received the American Alliance for Theatre and Education's Playreading Project National Award. In the word of seventh-graders who attended the Coterie's performances: "I would recommend this play to anyone." "There was not a bored person in the whole theatre." "I was with you on the long journey to California." "It was truly the best play I have ever seen."
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status Out of stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code A70000
- Minimum Cast Size 5
- Pages of Dialogue 44
- Min. Royalty Rate $85.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 60 min
- Staging Minimal sets.
Categories
- Target Audience Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Senior Adults
- Performing Group Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA | Touring Group
- Genre Drama
- ISBN(13) 9780871297471
Customer Reviews
Gallery
Across the Plains: The Journey of the Palace Wagon Family - Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, CO
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