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This production has a large cast size consisting of one LEAD role of Narrator (male) and a large ENSEMBLE cast (male and female) portraying 56 (34 male, 22 female) speaking roles of various ethnicities/nationalities reflecting military personnel and civilians affected by wars in numerous time periods across the world. The script cites experiences and letters of real/identified people, and will be performed OFF BOOK, with each ENSEMBLE actor playing multiple roles. 

Narrator: Caucasian, 30’s-40’s; journalist and world-traveler; the role entails many lengthy monologues that organize the themes of the letters

Ensemble: Diverse ethnic backgrounds, including Caucasian/American and multiple European nationalities, African-American, Asian-American, Latina, Native American, Middle Eastern; able to play late teens-20’s, 30’s-40’s, 40’s-50’s; facility with various accents is helpful

Representative male Ensemble characters:

Hans Schroter (German, WWII Dresden bombing survivor, 30’s): p. 34

Kurt Vonnegut (American WWII POW In Dresden, 20’s): p. 35   

Oscar Mitchell (American WWII Tuskegee Airman, 20’s): p. 38-39

Robert Guttman (American/British/French/Canadian accents as soldier in Desert Shield, 20’s-30’s): p. 25 

Richard Luttrell (American Viet Nam veteran, 40’s): p. 47 & 48

Alfred Chater (British Cockney WWI soldier, 20’s): p. 45 Beginning with… “About 10 o’clock…” and ending with “photographs come out”.     

Kuwaiti father (Arabic accent, son is a captive of Saddam Hussein regime, 40’s-50’s): p. 38

Soviet soldier (Russian WWII soldier, late teens-20’s): p. 36 

Representative female Ensemble characters:

Latina spouse (wife of Operation Enduring Freedom American soldier, 30’s): p. 9

German mother (German mother of WWI soldier, 40’s-50’s): p. 8

De’on Miller (Texan, mother of American soldier killed in Operation Enduring Freedom, 40’s-50’s): p. 39-40

Vera Lee (American nurse in WWII, 20’s-30’s): p. 37

French woman (French civilian in WWI, 30’s-40’s): p. 8-9

Tetsuko Tanaka (Japanese civilian factory worker in WWII, 40’s-50’s): p. 47 Beginning with …“Forty years after the war…” and ending with “never again be repeated”.

Maso Mohamadi (Dari speaker, Afghan civilian whose father was imprisoned by the Taliban, 30’s): p. 29

Mrs. Myatt (British civilian in WWII whose child has been evacuated to Canada, 30’s-40’s): p. 33 Beginning with …”Now, sweetheart…” and ending with “send it on to you”.