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Woman from the Town

Lila Wilson has returned to her roots, to the North Carolina farm where she was raised, which she left 27 years ago under a dark cloud of moral indignation.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Lila Wilson has returned to her roots, to the North Carolina farm where she was raised, which she left 27 years ago under a dark cloud of moral indignation. Pregnant out of wedlock, she was run out of town on a rail. She has become a very wealthy, successful real estate developer in New York City since that dark day, and now she has returned for revenge against the people who treated her so unkindly.

It seems economic times are dire now down home, and Lila starts buying up homes and farms under default on their mortgages, to turn their inhabitants out. Almost too late, she realizes that those who deserve pay back are long in their graves, and that those who remain are innocent bystanders.
REVIEWS:

"The play provides a compelling area for conflict with its interesting combination of rural and urban development. The obligations to the land and the lure of the city are central to the play's tension, and in an age of increasing family loyalty, it is refreshing to see a story so deeply committed to the soil of our beginnings."

 The Los Angeles Sentinel

Premiere Production: Woman from the Town was presented at the Inner City Cultural Center by Smart Productions in association with GCA Entertainment in September, 1989.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

  • LILA WILSON - Real estate broker. Born in Mason Bridge, North Carolina. Presently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Age 44.
    LAURA WILSON - Lila's sister. A farm woman, living in Mason's Bridge, North Carolina. Age 47.
    RITA CHANEY - Lila's daughter. Born out of wedlock. Age 27.
    BUDDY MITCHELL - Laura's son. Ex-Marine, now living on his mother's farm. Age 28. Doubles as: ROBERT WILSON.
    ROBERT WILSON - Lila and Laura's father. Age 65.
    HAZEL CLEMENS - (White) Laura's friend and neighbor. Farm woman. Age 58.
    SISSY - Laura's friend and neighbor. Farm woman. Age 48. Doubles as: EDNA WILSON.
    EDNA WILSON - Laura and Lila's mother. Age 65.

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    Lila Wilson has returned to her roots, to the North Carolina farm where she was raised, which she left 27 years ago under a dark cloud of moral indignation. Pregnant out of wedlock, she was run out of town on a rail. She has become a very wealthy, successful real estate developer in New York City since that dark day, and now she has returned for revenge against the people who treated her so unkindly.

    It seems economic times are dire now down home, and Lila starts buying up homes and farms under default on their mortgages, to turn their inhabitants out. Almost too late, she realizes that those who deserve pay back are long in their graves, and that those who remain are innocent bystanders.

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