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This Property is Condemned

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 30 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Willie, a 13-year old girl from Mississippi, is world-weary before her time. She dropped out of school years ago, her family died, and now she lives alone in their condemned boarding house and dreams of becoming a whore. One day as she walks on the railroad tracks, she meets 16-year-old Tom.

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

Premiere Production: This Property is Condemned premiered at the Hudson Park Theatre in New York City in March 1946.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F

  • WILLIE - a young girl
    TOM - a boy