Overview
Character Name
Tillie (Matilda) Hunsdorfer
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Early Teen
Role Size
Lead
Time & Place
1960s, rural america
Analysis
Tillie, a young teen girl and the protagonist of Paul Zindel’s play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, aspires to seek answers to things so many would never consider, questions of the universe, the rules of physics that keep it all intact, and the ways
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