27 Wagons Full of Cotton
- Short Play, Drama
- 2M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780811202251
A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.
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Description
- Short Play
- Drama
- 30 minutes
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Exterior Set
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
After Jake, a shady, middle-aged cotton gin owner, burns down rival Silva Vicarro's mill, Vicarro attempts to enact vengeance by seducing Flora, Jake's delicate young wife. A "Mississippi Delta comedy."
A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.
A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.
Premiere Production:
27 Wagons Full of Cotton premiered on Broadway at the Playhouse Theater in April 1955 under the direction of David Brooke.
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 1F
FLORA MEIGHAN - his wife
SILVA VICARRO - superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation
