River City
By Diana Grisanti
River City is a play that needs 6 or more performers (2 women, 4 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 6 or more performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 4 men
- Cast notes
- 4m., 2w.
- Recommended level
- College
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
River City leaps back and forth in time between Civil Rights-era Louisville and today. We begin in Chicago, in the present. Mary is mourning the death of her father, a reticent man named Edward Christopher. Prompted by a "responsibility to history," she travels back to her hometown to uncover her roots. The play transports us to 1968. A 14-year-old Edward is the only black child at St. Benedict Orphanage. His guardian, Sister Alice, sets him up with a job at Deeley Radio Repair, a shop in Louisv
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