Freedom Train
By Kate Emery Pogue
Freedom Train is a play that needs 8 performers (4 women, 4 men). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 8 performers
- Roles
- 4 women, 4 men
- Cast notes
- With doubling: 4m, 4w, plus ensemble to play various small roles
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
When Mandy Kate, a young slave girl, overhears a threat to sell her brother-in-law Robert, she rushes to warn her sister Sarah. The family plans to escape together, but Mandy Kate is inadvertently left behind when trying to help another slave, Old Job. Together the old man and young girl must set off on their own. They disguise themselvesOld Job as a woman (Josephine) and Mandy Kate as a boy (Abe)and are initially helped by a clever country boy and his eccentric elderly aunt. Mandy Kate and Old
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