From the Mississippi Delta
By Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland
From the Mississippi Delta is a play that needs 3 or more performers (3 women). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 3 or more performers
- Roles
- 3 women
- Cast notes
- 3w. (Each of the three women will play multiple roles.)
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
The journey begins in Greenwood, Mississippi—the Delta. "In my Delta town, some black girls aspired to become the woman—the mistress of some wealthy white man. But the darker ones—like me—could make it by going to the cottonfields, working from sun to sun, for just about three dollars a day," laments Phelia (Holland's alter-ego). It is those and other dreadful experiences that inspire her to dream far beyond the funny-paper walls in her drafty shotgun house in Dixie Lane Alley. Phelia's mother,
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