Loving
By Peter Manos
Loving is a play that needs 4 or more performers (1 women, 2 men, 1 any gender). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 4 or more performers
- Roles
- 1 women, 2 men, 1 any gender
- Cast notes
- 2m., 1 to 2w., 1 either gender.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
One of the greatest love stories in American history is, appropriately enough, the Loving story. In the 1950s, Richard Loving, a white Virginia construction worker, loved Mildred Jeter, an African American. Virginia state law prohibited interracial marriage, and, when state authorities found out Richard and Mildred had married, the couple was arrested. Sheriffs came in the middle of the night and dragged the Lovings from their bed. Richard spent a day in jail, and Mildred, because she was black,
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