The Blue and the Grey
by RS Paulette
This award-winning piece is haunting, exhilarating and theatrical.
Average Producer Rating:
About 35 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
7
3 M | 4 W, Plus Students
Simple set
34 pages
Reviews from Past Producers
Charlie is surrounded by ghosts. The ghost of an estranged father who leaves her an antique musket. The ghost of a classmate’s sister who cautions Charlie, The Grey will hear you.
Who are the Grey? Ghosts of Lost Confederate soldiers ambushed following the first battle of Fredericksburg, 1862.
As the Aurora Borealis light up the Virginia night sky Charlie must confront the living and the dead. She’s trying to find peace but will she make the right choice? What brings her to the centre of a barely frozen lake with the musket and her ghosts? Beat! Beat! Drums! Blow! Bugles! Blow!
This award-winning piece is haunting, exhilarating and theatrical.
Awards and Accolades
- RCHS Drama Club - 1st place finish at VHSL One-Act Competition, conference & regional level
Characters
7
3 Men, 4 Women, Plus Students
Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character - with the exception of CHARLIE and UNCLE WALT - and modify pronouns accordingly.
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CHARLENE EMERSON
[W]
125 lines
- “Charlie” is a high school junior, female, protagonist. Sees ghost, worries for her sanity; One monologue.
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RACHEL CARR
[W]
61 lines
- High school junior, female, Charlie’s best friend. Civil War buff, snarky, on the overbearing side, worries for Charlie’s sanity.
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DARREN ALGER
[M]
57 lines
- High school junior, male, outcast. Haunted by the death of ANA, withdrawn, insular; One monologue.
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ANA ALGER
[W]
19 lines
- Child of eight or nine years old, female, ghost. Wears a blue parka/winter coat. Never doubles as a Student.
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MORRISSEY
[M]
12 lines
- Late thirties, AP US History teacher, male, liked. Trusted teacher, half-hearted confidant, called “Moz” as an honorific by students.
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UNCLE WALT
[M]
24 lines. lines
- Mid-forties, poet, ghost/figment. Manifestation of poet Walt Whitman, though possibly something else. Never doubles as a Student; One monologue.
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MRS. E.
[W]
11 lines. lines
- Late thirties, early forties, female, mother to Charlie. Presumed widow, husband disappeared fourteen years ago. Strong, bedrock, single mother. Doubled by a student.
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STUDENTS
[A]
32 lines
- The nameless,faceless crowd. Also plays The Grey, The Drummer and the Captain. Can double other small roles. Lines can be said as a group, or divided up individually. Group can be small as 10 and as large as 21.
- Subgenres
- Ghost Story
- Settings
- Present day
- Dress
- Contemporary costumes Period costumes
- Audience
- Pre-teen Teen
- Features
- Mime Music Special effects Sound & Lighting Design Character study Movement-based Opportunity for spectacle Poetry
- Set
- Multiple sets
- Cautions
- Frank talk of death
- Themes
- Death Memory War Friendship Relationships
- Cross-Curricular Uses
- History
- Other uses
- Competition Monologues Audition material Class work Scene work
- Awards & Accolades
- Plays with Awards & Accolades
Prop List
Cell phone with camera, papers, muskets, drums
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The Blue and the Grey
by RS Paulette
About 35 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
7
3 M | 4 W, Plus Students
Simple set
34 pages