Persephone
By Ford Ainsworth
Persephone is a one-act play that needs 10 or more performers. Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 10 or more performers
- Cast notes
- 10 to 15 actors, flexible.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
This one-act comedy retells the myth in which Hades, god of death, kidnaps Persephone, goddess of life and spring. But while Persephone is usually presented as the sad-eyed queen of the underworld, here she is a happy breath of spring that makes life glitter wherever she is—even in Hades. Her conflict with the dead, who are trying their best to rest in peace, makes one of the most imaginative as well as meaningful literary works of the decade. In Greek mythology, Persephone, the daughter of Deme
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