Beets
By Rick Padden
Beets is a play that needs 9 performers (2 women, 7 men). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 9 performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 7 men
- Cast notes
- 7 m, 2 w
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
At the height of WWII with a frantic need to produce food, yet faced with a critical shortage of labor, American farmers were compelled to accept help in their fields from prisoners of war. While farmers’ sons fought men just like them in trenches and tanks in Europe, the presence of these POWs in rural America led to plenty of emotional conflict at home. Isabelle Hunt knows her husband Fred needs help with their beet crop, so he grudgingly allows German POWs from a camp nearby to work the famil
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