Song of Survival
By Eleanor Harder and Ray Harder
Song of Survival is a musical that needs 14 or more performers (14 women). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- musical
- Cast size
- 14 or more performers
- Roles
- 14 women
- Cast notes
- 14w. (plus flexible female ensemble and chorus.)
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
Based on the autobiographical work of Helen Colijn, who survived three-and-a-half years of internment in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, Song of Survival is "a stunning drama about women interned during World War II in Japanese prisoner of war camps and the music they created to sustain themselves...A powerful and well-scripted depiction of an extraordinary story." ( Monterey County Register ) Present-day Helen, as narrator, faces herself as a younger Helen in the group of imprisoned women. Conf
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