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Gold Fever

From the talented collaborators of Yellow Brick Road Shows -- another popular play bearing the hallmark of excellence in participatory theatre.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 65 minutes

  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Gold Fever is a popular participatory play of the highest quality for children of kindergarten to third grade. The characters, story and plotting attract all ages. Old West history and legend are humorously and imaginatively blended in this comedy to make a powerful statement about the conflict between personal greed and compassion for others. 

Set in the historic California Gold Rush, Gold Fever brings together Ben Halladay, "King of the Stage Lines," and a notorious highwayman known as Black Bart the PO8 ("the poet"). Bart was a "forty-niner" who failed to find riches in the gold fields. Now Black Bart turns to robbing Halladay's stagecoaches. Their ensuing misadventures reveal to both that "Gold fever can make a man mad!"

Gold Fever was originally developed for audiences in fourth through eight grade, but its characters, story, and plotting -- even its elements of participation -- will appeal to all ages.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Flexible casting

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Gold Fever is a popular participatory play of the highest quality for children of kindergarten to third grade. The characters, story and plotting attract all ages. Old West history and legend are humorously and imaginatively blended in this comedy to make a powerful statement about the conflict between personal greed and compassion for others. Set in the historic California Gold Rush, Gold Fever brings together Ben Halladay, King of the Stage Lines, and a notorious highwayman known as Black Bart, a forty-niner who failed to find riches in the gold fields. Now Black Bart turns to robbing Halladay's stagecoaches. Their ensuing misadventures reveal to both that Gold fever can make a man mad! Designed to tour with simple sets and suggested costumes. Approximate running time: 65 minutes. Music in book.

$19.95

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