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In the Middle of Grand Central Station

In the Middle of Grand Central Station

By Nancy Pahl Gilsenan.

Product Code: I44000

  • Full-length Play
  • Drama
  • Cast size: 6m., 6w., extras.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Awards: AATE Distinguished Play Award

Rights and availability
This title can be licensed and sold throughout the World.

* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

In stock

Synopsis

It's the crossroads of New York. It's the hub of Manhattan. It's old. It's beautiful. It's dirty. It's a noisy, anonymous, unforgettable point of departure for hundreds of thousands of people every day. Grand Central Station is the perfect place to visit, but who'd want to live there? Hundreds of people, many of them penniless and all of them lost, call Grand Central home. This is the story of one—a 15-year-old runaway named Marta de Silva. Loosely based on the true story of a young woman who lived in Grand Central for four years, this play examines the search of one very intelligent, warm and troubled human being to find a place of her own in a disintegrating social system. From a broken family, to city psychiatric wards and through residential treatment centers, Marty has continued to run—until she reaches the "living room" of the world's most famous train station. Here she finds freedom, friends, dignity, drugs and a kind of hopelessness few American young people can imagine. In the Middle of Grand Central Station is a play about survival and what happens to young people with dreams when the odds are stacked against them. Written in two acts with no scene breaks, the action of the story is bridged by Marty's inner voice, which narrates her psychological journey from a confident beginning to a tragic end.

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Details

  • Status

    In stock

  • Type of Show Full-length Play
  • Product Code I44000
  • Cast Size 12
  • Min. Royalty Rate $90/perf
  • Cost $10.95
  • Approx. Run Time 90 min

Categories

  • Target Audience High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
  • Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | TYA
  • Genre Drama
  • ISBN(13) 9780871296047
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

Customer Reviews

"This is a very good show for middle school students. It was an excellent opportunity for my students to understand the trials some homeless children face and appreciate the advantages they have. "
Review by Donna Corley, Harby Junior High, Alvin, Texas