The Haunted Carousel
By Ruth Angell Purkey
The Haunted Carousel is a one-act play that needs 14 or more performers (8 women, 6 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 14 or more performers
- Roles
- 8 women, 6 men
- Cast notes
- 6m., 8w.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- thriller
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
Perhaps there are dimensions in time, mysterious and unexplored, where the past moves into the present and back again, revolving like the spinning of a carousel. This is the theme of Ruth Angell Purkey's drama, which centers on the polar bear of a carousel where a woman left her little boy in the 1890s. He disappeared and she has spent her entire life looking for him. The scene shifts to the early 1920s, with the carousel music indicating the time. A young, intellectual couple discusses the man'
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