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Song at the Scaffold

Full-Length Play  /  9w, 4m

Emmet Lavery, Baroness Gertrud von le Fort

From Baroness Gertrud von le Fort's novel.

Two female choruses. No formal scenery. Background projections and extensive music continuity required. This moving play tells of a French community of nuns who were guillotined during the French revolution. It is especially the story of one nun who fears death and another who eagerly embraces marty…

Song at the Scaffold

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Two female choruses. No formal scenery. Background projections and extensive music continuity required. This moving play tells of a French community of nuns who were guillotined during the French revolution. It is especially the story of one nun who fears death and another who eagerly embraces martyrdom. And it is the once fearful nun who gains martyrdom which is denied the other.

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Emmet Lavery

Emmet Lavery
Emmet Lavery (1902-1986) served as president of the Screenwriters Guild of Los Angeles from 1945 to 1947 and as vice president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1946. Lavery's screenplay, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, earned him and co-author Milton ...
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Baroness Gertrud von le Fort

Baroness Gertrud von le Fort
Baroness Gertrude von Lefort (1876–1971) is the author of over 20 books (poems, novels, plays, and short stories), honorary Doctor of Theology and 'the greatest contemporary transcendent poet'. Her works are appreciated for their breath-taking profoundness and virtuosity, bea ...
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