Steal Away Home Author:Aurand Harris Dramatized by Aurand Harris, from Jane Kristof's novel. A moving drama of escape from slavery and flight to freedom. 4 women, 9 men, with doubling, though more can be used if desired. Bare stage, with set-pieces pulled on by stage hands. Mid-19th-century American costumes. Score available from the publisher, Anchorage Press Plays, www.applays.c... more »om.
Two young slave boys escape from a South Carolina plantation, and with the help of many good people, both black and white, make their way north to join their freed father in Pennsylvania. Their many adventures, dangers, hidings, disguises, narrow escapes, comic exploits, and heart-rending experiences are bridged with simple spirituals, sung by a choir. This play requires its cast to work together in close harmony, and brings new levels of perception of the people that lived in those anguished times... and indeed to those that live in ours.« less