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Hello From Bertha

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 10 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Bertha is a prostitute on the verge of being evicted from a low-class bordello. In a series of delusions she revisits her past loves while slipping toward disease and death.

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

Premiere Production: Hello from Bertha premiered on television on the PBS program "Play of the Week: Four Plays by Tennessee" in 1961.
  • Casting: 4F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female

  • GOLDIE
    BERTHA
    LENA
    GIRL