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The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  4w, 3m

Catherine Trieschmann

Winner! L. Arnold Weissberger Award

"Trieschmann's script is excellent...several scenes approach transcendence." - Broward Palm Beach New Times

The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Fables/Folktales, Period
  • Suggested Use
    • Cutting Approved for Competition
    • Monologues
    • Scene work
    • UIL Approved
    • Competition or audition material
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! L. Arnold Weissberger Award

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Summary
Set at the end of the Civil War in a town with split loyalties, this play weaves humor and mythology into a story about women who must find ways to keep hearth and home together in the absence of "full bodied" men. Focus is on the fracture that occurs in one family when a blind daughter is seduced by a Union raider with extraordinary storytelling abilities, much to the dismay of her staunchly Confederate mother.
History
The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock premiered at Florida Stage on January 31, 2009.
Cast Attributes
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Performing Groups
ELSA FARTHING - Mother; hard mountain woman.
LAUREL FARTHING - 20s; Daughter; born blind.
JACOB FARTHING - late 20s; second born son; ragged from war.
MAIZEY HOPEWELL - 20s; older sister; cheerful; pretty.
BITTY HOPEWELL - late teens; younger sister and charmer of snakes; tomboy.
PASTOR BURNS - 30s; man of lost faith.
THE BRIDEGROOM - 20s-30s; a Union raider and teller of stories.
  • Time Period American Civil War Era
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Gun Shots
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"Catherine Trieschmann's The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock celebrates the transportive, seductive power of storytelling even as the playwright spins her own tale of life in the North Carolina mountains at the ragged end of the Civil War." - The Miami Herald

"Trieschmann's script is excellent...several scenes approach transcendence." - Broward Palm Beach New Times

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Catherine Trieschmann

Catherine Trieschmann
Catherine Trieschmann’s plays include The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock, Crooked, How the World Began, Hot Georgia Sunday, The Most Deserving, Holy Laughter, OZ 2.5 and One House Over. Her work has been produced Off-Broadway at the Women’s Project, the Bush Theatre (London), Out ...
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