Ladies of the Tower
By Ruth Perry and Tim Kelly
Ladies of the Tower is a one-act play that needs 9 or more performers (9 women). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 9 or more performers
- Roles
- 9 women
- Cast notes
- 9w.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
The Tower of London provides the setting for this provocative play. Two cleaning women come to scrub down a forgotten room and are visited by the spirits of the ladies who met death inside the dark walls. Each is doomed by her own bitterness to walk the Tower. What is particularly interesting is their youth: Lady Jane Grey (15), Queen Catherine Howard (19) and Lady Rochford (18). Much of the dialogue is taken directly from historical record. In a brief overlapping of the present and the past, th
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