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Cotton Girls

  • Scott Tobin
  • Short Play, Comedy, 1950s
  • 3F
  • ISBN: 9780874409192

Can three girls survive their graduation night stuck on a Ferris wheel?

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: 1950s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Can three girls survive their graduation night stuck on a Ferris wheel? Set in 1959, the Dream Wheel breaks down with Miss, Berry, and Colleen at the very top. The girls are forced into states of sheer terror and self-reflection, as they try to make the most of their last night of high school.

Facing such frightening prospects as the real world and the abyss below them, these best friends stretch the fabric of their friendship, eventually becoming closer than ever.
REVIEWS:

"A nostalgic look at friendship in the 50's."

Julianne O'Riordian, Irish Echo

Premiere Production: Cotton Girls was first produced in February, 1992 at The Walnut Street Theatre Lunchtime Series in Philadelphia, and was directed by Bruce A. Katlin.

Characters

  • Casting: 3F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female

  • MISS - 18, shy, reserved
    BERRY - 18, nervous, theatrical
    COLLEEN - 18, brazen, outspoken

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    Can three girls survive their graduation night stuck on a Ferris wheel? Set in 1959, the Dream Wheel breaks down with Miss, Berry, and Colleen at the very top. The girls are forced into states of sheer terror and self-reflection, as they try to make the most of their last night of high school. Facing such frightening prospects as the real world and the abyss below them, these best friends stretch the fabric of their friendship, eventually becoming closer than ever.

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