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Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

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

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 30 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Two unnamed characters, Man and Woman, live in a crumbling flat on the Lower East Side. He is a drunk, and she is purposefully wasting away -- but between them there is an intimacy of desperation.

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

Premiere Production: Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen premiered in Westport, CT in 1958.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F

  • MAN
    WOMAN
    CHILD'S VOICE - offstage