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Mountains in My Stride

  • James Facos
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 19th Century
  • 7M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780874403138

A two act American folk drama, salted with frontier humor.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 19th Century
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Professional Theatre
Caught in the trials of becoming their truest selves, the characters break through by insight and decisions to take - or miss - the mountains in their stride.

Veteran frontiersman Jason Hunt, slated for Congress, finds his destiny blocked by his love for Ruth, a young, fear-rooted Bostonian; while her cousin, Hannah, struggles to free herself of binding traditions, to love freely.  Blunder, an odd free spirit, raised by Pawnee, snared now by mercenary Sary, startles to find himself through his own native vision quest, which frees them all.

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras, Ensemble cast

  • McIVER - 40s; wiry; forceful; energetic man.

  • SARY - late 30s; thin-boned; tight-mannered; grasping and cash-hard woman.

  • HAWKINS - burly; good-natured; obliging hulk of a man.

  • BAILEY - very spirited; young river man.

  • JORY BULLARD - a burly bull of a man.

  • JASON HUNT - a tall, rugged, weather-tanned man in his early 30s. His movements are quiet and easy. He wears a shirt of homespun, fringed buckskin britches, and moccasins.

  • HANNAH WEBSTER - a tall, poised woman of 35 or so, her propriety not yet hardened into primness.

  • RUTH TOBY - a gentle and lovely woman of 22 or so, on the threshold of self-discovery. Her dress is a heavy black mourning dress.

  • BLUNDER - a sinewy man, clad in buckskin revealing a compact, muscular body. A knife sheath hangs from his belt. His movements are supple, with cat-like grace, an almost primitive swiftness in them. He seems older than his years only because of his shaggy beard.

  • TOM BOWIE - a bulky giant of a man, weathered and hard-built, in homespun shirt, leather britches and heavy boots, muddy with travel. In his early, rugged 40s.

  • A CROWD - of McIver's men, and river and town folk.

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    Caught in the trials of becoming their truest selves, the characters break through by insight and decisions to take - or miss - the mountains in their stride.Veteran frontiersman Jason Hunt, slated for Congress, finds his destiny blocked by his love for Ruth, a young, fear-rooted Bostonian; while her cousin, Hannah, struggles to free herself of binding traditions, to love freely.  Blunder, an odd free spirit, raised by Pawnee, snared now by mercenary Sary, startles to find himself through his own native vision quest, which frees them all.

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