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Something Unspoken

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 30 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Miss Cornelia Scott is a grand, Southern woman whose outer extravagance belies inner insecurities. She has a complex, codependent relationship with her secretary, and during the elections for the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, their tensions reach a tipping point.

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

Premiere Production: Something Unspoken premiered at the York Theatre in New York City in January, 1958.
  • Casting: 2F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female

  • MISS CORNELIA SCOTT - 60, a wealthy southern spinster
    MISS GRACE LANCASTER - 40 or 45, faded but still pretty