Cricket on the Hearth
By Craig Sodaro
Cricket on the Hearth is a play that needs 27 performers (13 women, 14 men). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 27 performers
- Roles
- 13 women, 14 men
- Cast notes
- 14 m, 13 w, much doubling possible
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
It's the 1880s and Dot Dallrimple and her friend May Fielding are Christmas shopping. A miserly store owner, Mr. Tackleton, has eyes for May and has her fiance Edward kidnapped and sent off to sea, never to return to England. Ten years pass with no word from Edward. Poor May has remained single, even though Tackleton has continued to court her. Meanwhile, Dot has married John Peerybingle and his delivery business has prospered. Two days before Christmas he brings home a ragged, mute stranger. In
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