Overview
Character Name
Townspeople
Show
Gender
Either Gender
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Ensemble
Dancing
Mover
Vocal Technique
operatic
Time & Place
1950s; new hope valley, a small mountain town in tennessee
Analysis
The Townspeople are small-minded, religious, and provincial, set in their ways and suspicious of anything they deem remotely “sinful.” They are quick to condemn Susannah, showing her little kindness when the Elders tell them that she is “of the Devil.” There is a square
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