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Coming Through the Rye

Short Play, Drama  /  2w, 3m, 2girl(s), 5boy(s), 1any gender (adult)

William Saroyan

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Coming Through the Rye

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 3m, 2girl(s), 5boy(s), 1any gender (adult)
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Experimental
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Details

Summary
A group of people wait in a room, anticipating the moment they will be born. In this room their differing races, beliefs, and creeds do not matter; but they know once they begin their lives on Earth, all that will change.
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Performing Groups
THE VOICE
BUTCH - A boy of 9
MR. CARROLL - A man of 70
STEVE - About 27; Sober, serious, but a drunkard
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ROOSEVELT - Age 3, African American
ALICE - Age 5, Caucasian
LARRY - Age 7, Caucasian
PEDRO GONZALEZ - Age 8, Mexican
JOHNNY GILLANTI - Age 9, Italian
HENRIETTA - Age 13, Caucasian
RALPH HASTINGS - A decent sort of fellow
PEGGY
  • Setting A large room. This room is one of many. It is The American Room, and is so marked. 
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes, Fantasy Costumes
  • Additional Features No intermission
  • Duration 30 minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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Authors

William Saroyan

William Saroyan
Novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist, William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California in 1908. A high-school dropout, Saroyan was largely self-educated and decided at an early age to pursue a career as a writer, drawing on his experience as an Armenian-America ...
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