The Prisoner's Hands
By E. Jack Williams
The Prisoner's Hands is a one-act play that needs 8 performers (8 women). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 8 performers
- Roles
- 8 women
- Cast notes
- 8 w, 6 flex, extras, doubling possible
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
This is the story of a killer, her relationship to the family of the victim and her relationship to her own conscience. The play opens in a courtroom with the murder victim’s blind sister, Whitney, giving a family impact statement. Her personal sentence seals the fate of Cheek, the defendant, far worse than any court punishment of “life in prison” could ever do. “I sentence you...to see the image of my sister's face in your hands. I want your hands to be the constant reminder of the horror you s
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