The play opens in “the present” with a TOURIST taking photographs of the Orphans’ Tomb. STAGING CHALLENGES: Fight between two girls there are ghosts in some dream sequences staging ten orphans in a polyphonic scene. SET REQUIREMENTS: The setting is New Orleans in the summer of 1816 interiors (apartment and bakery kitchen) and exteriors (the street, a cemetery with tombs and mausoleums) SUMMARY: In the midst of a yellow fever outbreak, LIZZIE LANDRY helps a group of orphansĬHARACTER BREAKDOWN: 8F (2 Adults, 6 Teenagers) 8M (2 Adults, 6 Teenagers, 1 Indeterminate)ĬOSTUMES: Period costumes for the early 19 th century there is a 21 st century tourist character as well. 1 has a lot of appeal for competition stages: an historical setting with young adult characters, a social justice issue, personal tragedies, and several roles that could earn accolades for talented, hard-working actors. The script is short estimated performance time in the script is 35-45 minutes, but I think it could be done in 30 – a common time limit for festival and competition one-acts. 1 is a speculative history telling of Julien Poydras’ inspiration to found the Poydras Orphanage, which leads to there being a Poydras Orphans’ Tomb in New Orleans’ Lafayette No.
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