Rain-In-The-Face • A Battle for Truth

Rain-In-The-Face • A Battle for Truth

by Eric Samuelsen

At the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, many things were created, re-created and introduced to a willing public hungry for the sensational, the common-place, the truth as it is written, but may not have been lived. In the re-assembled cabin of Sitting Bull, after great expense is taken to move it, Rain-It-The-Face sits to greet the public. Some hate him. Many love him. But they all feared him, the ferocious warrior who killed the Custer brothers — at least that is how it was told in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem about the Battle of The Little Big Horn, which Longfellow did not, in fact, witness, while everyone took the poem as gospel-truth. Buffalo Bill Cody hopes to gain Rain-In-The-Face as a member of his performing troupe. Annie Oakley visits in order for Rain-In-The-Face to tell his stories––it is his price––as he knows of Annie’s and Sitting Bull’s friendship. The widow of General Custer also visits, to learn the truth about the events that took her husband’s life. But what is truth? Is it White truth, or Native truth? Is it man’s truth, or woman’s truth? This play explores it all and allows the audience to accept what truth they will.

Some mature language.

PREMIERE PLAY FILE


PLAY DETAILS:

  • 3f 3m (playing 3f 7m)

    • Rain In The Face––or Ite Omagazu, in Lakota. Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux). 58 years old (ca.)
      Buffalo Bill Cody
      A Male Actor––white, plays various characters, including Ingles, Customers, Kent Thomas, James Dorsey, Mayfield
      Lillian — daughter to Rain
      Annie Oakley
      Elizabeth Custer––George Armstrong Custer’s wife
  • About 85 minutes
  • Single Interior
  • Costumes: 1890s American and Indian traditional clothing
  • Order # 3291
  • Part of the PREMIERE PLAY FILE

As of the current date, the WORLD PREMIERE  rights are available for producers interested in PREMIERING this new musical.


PERUSAL MATERIALS:

  • A copy of the PERUSAL SCRIPT (in PDF format) which contains half of the script of the play is available, (it also has an extensive Author’s Note.):  Rain-In-The-Face PERUSAL

PRODUCTION/REHEARSAL MATERIALS:

(Any PDF purchased will be emailed to your email address — if you need to provide that to us (not the one on your PayPal account?), email us. CDs will be mailed to a snail mail address. Do not purchase rehearsal materials or pay for royalties until you have performance clearance.)

  • Script in PDF format  — Order #3291a : $25.00 (from which you will be authorized to copy for your production)
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  • First Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #3291d : $70
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  • Second Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #3291e : $60
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  • Professional Royalties will be quoted upon application
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PRODUCTIONS

  • Premiered ––  maybe by your theatre, company, or group?

BILLING CREDITS

The following is how the credits should read in all programs, posters, fliers, handbills and other promotional advertising for the show:

Rain-In-The-Face
A New Play

by
Eric Samuelsen

NOTE: The names of the Playwright(s), Composer, Lyricist, and Bookwriter shall be equal in size, type, coloring, boldness, and prominence. No billing shall appear in type larger or more prominent than the billing to the Authors except for the title of the play. (In a press release all type, will of course, be the same size.)

ALSO:

THIS NOTICE MUST APPEAR IN ALL PROGRAMS, ON ALL POSTERS AND PUBLICITY MATERIALS AND INTERNET ADVERTISING/WEBPAGES FOR THE PLAY:
Rain-In-The-Face is presented through special arrangement with Leicester Bay Theatricals.  All authorized materials are also supplied by LBT, www.leicesterbaytheatricals.com”