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One Thing More or Caedmon Construed

Short Play, Drama  /  3w, 7m, 4 any gender (adult)

Christopher Fry

An account of the poet Caedmon isolated and silenced for thirty years by an immense personal grief. A person appears to him in a dream, makes him talk and tells him to sing. The miracle happens and Caedmon sings the "Hymn Of Creation".
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One Thing More or Caedmon Construed

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    3w, 7m, 4 any gender (adult)
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Summary

An account of the poet Caedmon isolated and silenced for thirty years by an immense personal grief. A person appears to him in a dream, makes him talk and tells him to sing. The miracle happens and Caedmon sings the "Hymn Of Creation".

Cast Attributes

M10 F4 or M7 F3, with doubling. Extras.

  • Time Period Medieval (6th-14th Century)
  • Setting

    A bare stage.

  • Features Period Costumes

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Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry, born in 1907 in Bristol, England, is one of the few twentieth-century dramatists to write successfully in verse. His first major success was THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING (1949), a wry comedy set in the Middle Ages in which love overcomes prejudice and hypocrisy ...
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