The Playwrights Database
ROGER MILLER
Nationality: USA
email: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: ICM Partners
Roger Miller's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
Buy Plays with Doollee
Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.AbeBooks.co.uk AbeBooks.com Stageplays.com amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template
below is a list of Roger Miller's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Big RiverBig River
Huckleberry Finn has been taken away from his abusive Father and placed in the care of Widow Douglas. He is told that he will not get to Heaven if he does not learn to read. He meets his friend Tom Sawyer in their hideaway cave and with some other boys plan to be a gang of robbers. On his way back to the Widow his Father grabs him and takes him to his cabin where in a delusional state he tries to kill him. Next day Huck decides to runaway. He kills a pig a splashes its blood around the cabin to make it look like he really has been murdered. He goes to Jackson's Island to hide out. there he discovers Widow Douglas' slave Jim. Huck agrees to help him escape to the North and they set off on the Mississippi
Notes:
by William Hauptman, Music And lyrics by Roger Miller; based on the novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
1st Produced:
Cambridge, Massachusetts 1984
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1986 -
Music:
Original cast recording: MCA (MCAD-6147) 1985
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Adaptation Musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page