Devil of the Second Stairs
- Full Length Play, Drama
- 9F
- ISBN: 9780573630057
A remote priory is the center for local missionary activity. It is winter and the nuns are preparing for the burial of a deceased sister.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
A remote priory is the center for local missionary activity. It is winter and the nuns are preparing for the burial of a deceased sister. As they are singing the Miserere, a warm wind rushes through the chapel and the dead nun sits up in her coffin and laughs! Thus begins for the community of nuns a week of terror, voodoo, suspicion, diabolical possession and attendant horrors.
Characters
- Casting: 9F
- Casting Attributes: All Female
SISTER HELENE - about 20, tall, newly professed, intelligent.
SISTER LOUISE - also about 20, gentle and dedicated, also newly professed.
SISTER ANNE - thin, glasses, about 40, a professional, gifted with a sense of humor.
SISTER JANET - an African-American woman, about 30, speaks in a clipped, crisp Bahamian accent, impressionable.
SISTER MARY - mid-30's, a little overweight, generous, warm, enthusiastic.
SISTER CAROL - about 22, beautiful, a victim of innocent over-simplification.
MOTHER MARGARET - actually her age is indeterminate, glasses, inscrutable, perceptive.
SISTER JUDITH - very old, glasses, small and wizened.
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A remote priory is the center for local missionary activity. It is winter and the nuns are preparing for the burial of a deceased sister. As they are singing the Miserere, a warm wind rushes through the chapel and the dead nun sits up in her coffin and laughs! Thus begins for the community of nuns a week of terror, voodoo, suspicion, diabolical possession and attendant horrors. |
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