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The Wild Bunch Women: A Memory Play

Short Play, Drama  /  15w, 2m plus ensemble

Musicians (violins, banjo, guitars): All music and organic sound will be created by live musicians; sound should be as organically created as possible.

The Wild Bunch Women were known throughout the Old West as cattle rustlers, stagecoach bandits, and bank robbers... but to Pearl Hart, they were family. Joy, sorrow, and the spirit of the old West fill this poignant play.

The Wild Bunch Women: A Memory Play

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    15w, 2m plus ensemble
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period, Docudrama/History
  • Suggested Use
    • Competition or Audition Material
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Teen (Age 14-18)
The Wild Bunch Women: A Memory Play

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Summary

The Wild Bunch Women were known throughout the Old West as cattle rustlers, stagecoach bandits, and bank robbers... but to Pearl Hart, they were family. Years later, Pearl revisits her time leading the fiery band of female outlaws, and the fateful day they travel to a small Texas town to cross the border and start fresh. But the past is not so easily outrun, and it‘s not long before a group of angry nuns, a local girl with an unlikely connection to the outlaws, and an emissary from Pearl‘s old flame Jesse James close in on the Wild Bunch for one final showdown. Joy, sorrow, and the spirit of the old West fill this poignant play.

PEARL HART – Leader of the Wild Bunch Women

MARY FIELDS – Member of the Wild Bunch Women

CARLOTTA THOMPKINS – Member of the Wild Bunch Women

JOSIE BASSETT (CHILI) – Member of the Wild Bunch Women

ANN BASSETT (SPICE) – Member of the Wild Bunch Women

ABIGAIL – Orphan

FATHER SANTIAGO – New Catholic priest

GEORGE – Mercantile owner’s son

JULIANA – Mercantile owner

ZERELDA – Jesse James‘ fiancée; member of the James gang

SISTER AGNES – Spiritual leader of her nun order

SISTER PRUDENCE – Nun

SISTER RUTH – Nun

TOWNSPEOPLE

Musicians (violins, banjo, guitars): All music and organic sound will be created by live musicians; sound should be as organically created as possible.

  • Time Period Present Day, Wild West, 19th Century
  • Setting

    Pearl‘s memory. Roma, Texas 1867; the present; 1907.

  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features Play with Music
  • Duration 30 minutes

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  • Minimum Fee: £30 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Nelly E. Cuellar-Garcia

Nelly E. Cuellar-Garcia embarked upon her lifelong love affair with theatre while watching local artists perform their trades in barns and around campfires. Regional and local actors, musicians, poets, and writers flitted through her parents' ranch and filled her world with c ...
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