RISING
By Carolyn Nur Wistrand
RISING is a play that needs 13 performers (7 women, 6 men). Licensed by Brooklyn Publishers.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 13 performers
- Roles
- 7 women, 6 men
- Cast notes
- 6-7 females, 4-6 males (10-13 total cast)
- Running time
- About 90 minutes
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Brooklyn Publishers
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Synopsis
An African American school teacher is recruited by Abolitionists to go behind the Confederate line to teach recently freed Gullah women, who are designated contraband by the Union, while an Irish girl is sentenced to ten years in a Baltimore penitentiary for carrying a Black man’s child. Based on real historical events that... Read More
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