Silent War
By Clete Melick
Silent War is a one-act play that needs 6 performers (2 women, 4 men). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 6 performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 4 men
- Cast notes
- 4 m, 2 w
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- reader theatre
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
Here is a perfect play to introduce children to the Underground Railroad. Designed as a Reader’s Theatre, "The Silent War" is a story of three slaves – and eight little mice – who escape to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Uncle Amos, Belle, and Buck Henry, all slaves on a Kentucky plantation, didn’t plan to escape until they met Zakary, a Bible salesman and abolitionist. He shows them the way to cross the river into Ohio and from there travel north to other stations. Along the way, the t
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