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Daughters of Venice

  • Don Taylor
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 18th Century
  • 9M, 13F
  • ISBN: 9780573017414

Written for Chiswick Youth Theatre, this play of rich comedy and powerful drama has a large cast, with a preponderance of good female roles.

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: 18th Century
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
Written for Chiswick Youth Theatre, this play of rich comedy and powerful drama has a large cast, with a preponderance of good female roles. 

The daughters are the young girls taken in as orphans and cared for by the sisters of the Pietíæ. The convent is famous for its girls' orchestra under the direction of Vivaldi and the play follows the fortunes of three of the girls about to enter the harsh commercial world.

  • Casting: 9M, 13F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting, Room for Extras

  • Of the Ospedale de la Pietrà
    MAESTRO VANDINI
    THE MADRE
    MAESTRA LICIANA
    SISTER TERESA
    SISTER ANNUNCIATA

    Figlie di Coro
    MAESTRA ANNA-MARIA
    MAESTRA SILVIA
    MAESTRA CANDIDA
    MAESTRA LUCIETTA
    SOPRANA
    ANASTAZIA
    PRUDENZA
    PELLEGRINA
    PAULINA
    MICHELOTTA
    MARGARITA
    FORTUNATA
    GIULIETTA
    CHIARETTA
    PERDUTA
    FIGLIE DI CORO (non-speaking)

    Of Venice
    DON ANTONIO VIVALDI
    GRIMALDO
    PAZZO
    GOVERNOR OF THE OSPEDALE
    THE CONTESSA
    THE YOUNG MAN
    PUNCH AND JUDY MAN
    PUPPET BOY
    PEDLAR GIRL
    TUMBLER
    CARNIVAL REVELLERS, NUNS, ENTERTAINERS, PICKPOCKETS, STARVING CHILDREN (non-speaking)

    From England
    MILORD
    BODGER
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    Written for Chiswick Youth Theatre, this play of rich comedy and powerful drama has a large cast, with a preponderance of good female roles. The daughters are the young girls taken in as orphans and cared for by the'sisters of the Pietíæ. The convent is famous for its girls' orchestra under the direction of Vivaldi and the play follows the fortun's of three of the girls about to enter the harsh commercial world.

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