Historian in Residence Studying the Underground Railroad with Ms. Christy

Plays about The Underground Railroad

The Play

Number of Actors

Length

Cost

"The Story of William and Ellen Craft"
(This play breaks the story into 11 parts. The class is broken into 5 small groups, each of which performs two of the parts. In this way, you don't have just two people who get to be William and Ellen Craft.)

Approximately 25 actors

21 pages or
about 30 minutes long.

$25

"Escape on the Underground Railroad."
(In this play, a family of slaves runs away to freedom with the help of Pegleg Joe, Harriet Tubman and a family of Conductors on The Underground Railroad. This play breaks the class into six small groups, some groups are runaway slave families, who hand off the story to the next group; one group is a Conductor family; one group is the Slavecatchers.)

Approximately 24 actors

11 pages long or about 30 minutes long, including the singing of "Follow the Drinking Gourd.)

$25

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