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The Blue and the Grey

The Blue and the Grey

by RS Paulette

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.

Drama

Average Producer Rating:

Recommended for High Schools

Running Time
About 35 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
7 Characters
3 M4 F, Plus Students
Set
Simple set
Length
34 pages
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7 Characters
3 M, 4 F, 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.

CHARLENE EMERSON [F] 125 lines
“Charlie” is a high school junior, female, protagonist. Sees ghost, worries for her sanity; One monologue.
RACHEL CARR [F] 61 lines
High school junior, female, Charlie’s best friend. Civil War buff, snarky, on the overbearing side, worries for Charlie’s sanity.
DARREN ALGER [M] 57 lines
High school junior, male, outcast. Haunted by the death of ANA, withdrawn, insular; One monologue.
ANA ALGER [F] 19 lines
Child of eight or nine years old, female, ghost. Wears a blue parka/winter coat. Never doubles as a Student.
MORRISSEY [M] 12 lines
Late thirties, AP US History teacher, male, liked. Trusted teacher, half-hearted confidant, called “Moz” as an honorific by students.
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.
MRS. E. [F] 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.
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.

Praise for The Blue and the Grey

Aimee Kewley
Burncoat High School
We had an excellent time with our production. It was a great show for ensemble building, and devising around who and what the chorus of the "grey" and students are.

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