This is the story of an escape from slavery in the deep south of America. A group of young people flee the harsh life of the plantation and are led to freedom by Harriet Tubman, herself an ex-slave. The play includes original source material as well as spirituals, ballads and poems. The "Play plus" series provides scripts for reading aloud in the English classroom as well as for improvisation and performance work. Each play is followed by resource material: poems, extracts, photographs, original documents. These explore topics related to the script and provide starting points for improvisation, discussion and creative writing.

 

This book is part of a book series called Plays Plus .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1990 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Joanna H. Kraus is an award-winning playwright of eighteen produced and published plays. THE ICE WOLF (Dramatic Publishing), and REMEMBER MY NAME (Samuel French) were both produced off-off Broadway. The former appears in several anthologies and has a Spanish version. Her latest script is PILOT CHRISTABEL (Dramatic Publishing). Kraus received the Charlotte Chorpenning Cup and the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. She's written numerous articles, interviews and reviews for the media. In addition she's received commissions to dramatise history, among them, SUNDAY GOLD and ANGEL IN THE NIGHT. (Dramatic Publishing. ) Picture books include A NIGHT OF TAMALES AND ROSES and BLUE TOBOGGAN (Shenanigan Books. ) She lives in northern California with her husband, Ted. Currently, she's Correspondent for the Bay Area News Group, a member of The Dramatists Guild and is Professor Emeritus of the College at Brockport State University of New York.