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One Thing More or Caedmon Construed

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

Christopher Fry

One Thing More or Caedmon Construed
by 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, 4any gender (adult)
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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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M10 F4 or M7 F3, with doubling. Extras.
  • Time Period Medieval (6th-14th c.)
  • Setting A bare stage.
  • Features Period Costumes

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