A Tale of Two Cities (Eason)
By Laura Eason
A Tale of Two Cities (Eason) is a one-act play that needs 8 performers (2 women, 5 men, 1 any gender). Licensed by Playscripts.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 8 performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 5 men, 1 any gender
- Cast notes
- 5 men, 2 women, 1 any gender
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Playscripts
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Synopsis
This exhilarating adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel tells an epic story of vengeance and sacrifice poetically described in the famous first lines as “the best of times and the worst of times.” When the French emigrant Charles Darnay returns to his native Paris to help a friend, his aristocratic past is cause for the new regime to imprison him in the infamous Bastille, where he is sentenced to death by guillotine. With time running out, Darnay's friends and family desperately try to
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