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Ghost Rider

  • Steph DeFerie
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, American Civil War Era
  • 10M, 10F, 1M or F
  • ISBN: 9780874401813

The Williams family has just moved into their new house when they notice that things are a little strange; books fall off of shelves all by themselves, dolls go missing, and they all keep humming the same song, a song none of them had ever heard before.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, American Civil War Era
  • Target Audience: Young Children (Age 2 - 5), Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Gun Shots

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary, Outdoor, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Church / Religious Groups
The Williams family has just moved into their new house when they notice that things are a little strange; books fall off of shelves all by themselves, dolls go missing, and they all keep humming the same song, a song none of them had ever heard before. With the help of a physic and a historian, they discover that the house was a part of the underground railroad, and that a little runaway slave girl died in a secret hiding space in the wall. 

The action from 1855 takes place at the same time as the modern day, with the actors inhabiting the same space at times. Ultimately the modern family finds her poor little bones and decides that the right thing to do would be to carry them to Canada and bury them there, so that she can finally complete the journey she began over 150 years ago.

Premiere Production:

Ghost Rider was first performed by the Chatham Middle School Drama Club at the Chatham High School auditorium on Cape Cod, Massachusetts on May 12, 2007.

Characters

  • Casting: 10M, 10F, 1M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Minority casting, Flexible casting, Parts for Senior Actors, Features Children, Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: May be performed by mixed cast of adults and young performers or by young performers alone.

  • Present Day
    MR. WILLIAMS
    MRS. WILLIAMS
    MAGGIE - their daughter
    TY - their son
    JANIE - their daughter
    SUZE - a neighbor girl
    BECKA - a neighbor girl
    MADAME ROSA - a psychic
    PROFESSOR POTRTERFOY - a historian

    1855
    MR. JAMESON
    MRS. JAMESON
    ELIJAH - their son
    TEMPERANCE - their daughter
    FAITH - their daughter
    REVEREND MATTHEWS
    CALICO - a runaway slave
    FAST - a runaway slave
    SLOW - a runaway slave
    MR. COLLINS - a conductor
    SLATTERY - a slave hunter
    COOMBS - a slave hunter

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    The Williams family has just moved into their new house when they notice that things are a little strange; books fall off of shelves all by themselves, dolls go missing, and they all keep humming the same song, a song none of them had ever heard before. With the help of a physic and a historian, they discover that the house was a part of the underground railroad, and that a little runaway slave girl died in a secret hiding space in the wall. The action from 1855 takes place at the same time as the modern day, with the actors inhabiting the same space at times. Ultimately the modern family finds her poor little bones and decides that the right thing to do would be to carry them to Canada and bury them there, so that she can finally complete the journey she began over 150 years ago.

    		$24.95

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