The Chicago Gypsies
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Drama, 1930s
- 1M, 6F
- ISBN: C69
This is a play for family audiences about the migratory life of a show business child during the Great Depression.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy, Drama
- 75 minutes
- Time Period: 1930s
- Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences, Adult
- Set Requirements: Area Staging
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
- Accolades:
- Winner! 1990 AATE Distinguished Play Award (Upper/Secondary)
Audiences warm to Charley's temperamental actress-mother; her loving, song-and-dance-man of a father; and Charley's illegitimate adopted grandmothers. While set in the Depression, the Chicago gypsies stubbornly see their way through these worst of times to the best of times in a regenerative reunion that makes these odd yet ordinary people shine with the miracle of loving, quiet survival.
Characters
- Casting: 1M, 6F
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This is a play for family audiences about the migratory life of a show business child during the Great Depression. Carolina Lee, called Charley, is the youngest actress in the company that suddenly finds itself stranded, and she becomes a drop-in at the local school, where recess is more like a Roman coliseum. Here is a play that connects rich, fully realized characters from three generations. Audiences warm to Charley's temperamental actress-mother; her loving, song-and-dance-man of a father; and Charley's illegitimate adopted grandmothers. While set in the Depression, the Chicago gypsies stubbornly see their way through these worst of times to the best of times in a regenerative reunion that makes these odd yet ordinary people shine with the miracle of loving, quiet survival. Area staging |
$19.95 |
