Possessing Harriet
By Kyle Bass
Possessing Harriet is a play that needs 4 performers (2 women, 2 men). Licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 4 performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 2 men
- Cast notes
- 2W, 2M
- Running time
- About 90 minutes
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Theatrical Rights Worldwide
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Synopsis
In 1839, Harriet Powell, a young, mixed-race, enslaved woman, slips away from a hotel in Syracuse, New York, and escapes from the white Southerner who owns her. With the aid of a worker at the hotel, a mysterious free black man named Thomas Leonard, Harriet finds temporary safe harbor in an attic room at the home of impassioned abolitionist Gerrit Smith. With the slave catchers in pursuit, Harriet spends the hours before her nighttime departure on the dangerous journey to Canada in the company o
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