PERUSAL SCRIPT
Willowmere! A Small Cast Supernatural Drama Play Perusal
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The Hammond Family Saga Continues. Cast Size 10.
At the Willowmere plantation, the past doesn’t stay buried. In this gripping continuation of the Hammond family saga, a funeral brings the family home, only to spark a terrifying paranormal awakening. As young Eve Hammond experiences violent flashbacks to a brutal 18th-century murder, her father must fight a battle across time to break a centuries-old curse. Deeply atmospheric and emotionally charged, Willowmere is a supernatural drama about the weight of legacy and the courage to face the dark.
A Powerful Drama. The Hammond family has always been steeped in the fire of war and the heartache of loss. Now, they return to the source of their bloodline to discover that knowing who you are means facing where you came from. No matter what secrets are buried in the soil of WILLOWMERE.
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Synopsis
It’s July 31, 1968 and, once again, the Hammond family reunites at the family’s ancestral home… Willowmere!
The family’s long term housekeeper, Ida Mae, has passed away and they have all returned for her funeral. Ida Mae has taken care of the Hammond family for several generations and, as a result,
commands the respect and adoration of all.
But, more than a funeral is about to be experienced. Edmund and Celia’s daughter, Eve, was conceived 15 years prior, at Willowmere, under very unusual circumstances having to do with a dramatic paranormal encounter with the ghost of the daughter of their ancestor, Phillip Zachary Hammond, who built the Plantation in 1761. As a result, Eve’s very existence is enjoined with the spirit of that little ghost and she has just reached the same age as that ghost was when she was brutally murdered back in the 1700’s, sparking the awakening of forces and events no one is prepared to face.
But, face it they must. They watch as Eve seems to be experiencing flashbacks to the past, causing her to behave as two separate people. When they finally come to terms with why this is happening, Edmund’s first instinct is to gather up his wife and child and take them as far away from Willowmere as possible but, Eve has come to understand the altered “self” that resides within her and explains that there is no point in trying to run away. Eve explains that, “What happens to her, happens to me” and they must face the situation head on in order to be able to bring things to an end.
As the father figure, carrying the bloodline of Philip Hammond in his veins, Edmund must fight for both their children to finally put the evil down.
This is the continuation of the Hammond family story begun under the previous work entitled “UNTHINKABLE” but, it easily stands on its own.
Cast of Characters
They all speak with heavy southern accents.
- VIOLET HAMMOND (Pronounced Bow-shomp) (56 yrs. old) – Attractive, poised sister to Wesley and Edmund.
- EDMUND HAMMOND (53 yrs. old) – Handsome, well built brother to Wesley and Violet
- LOUISA HAMMOND (57 yrs. old) – Plain, but nice looking. Wesley’s wife.
- BERNARD BEAUCHAMP (Pronounced Bow-shomp) (56 yrs. old) – Handsome “suede shoe boy” type. Violet’s husband.
- CELIA HAMMOND (51 yrs. old) – Pretty, lovely, sweet. Edmund’s wife.
- SPENCER IVERSON (57 yrs. Old) – Attractive, very fit and muscular. Works in construction.
- TRUDY JOHNSON (60 yrs. Old) – The housekeeper. Homely, not well educated, plain spoken woman.
- EVE (14 yrs. old) – Daughter of Edmund and Celia. Resembles the ghost in her physical appearance.
- THE GHOST OF EVE (14 yrs. old) – The ghost of the little girl who was born at Willowmere in the 1700’s. Petite, lovely, very poised and feminine with long flowing hair. She is very pale and all dressed in white. (a dancer)
- HESSIAN SOLDIER – (Played by the actor who performs the part of Bernard Beauchamp). Wears a Hessian Soldier uniform. Carries a period rifle with bayonet. Wears a black stocking hood to cover his head and black gloves to make him look eerie and ghostlike as if he’s really not there.
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SETS
The entire play takes place using one set. In the center there is the front of a plantation house with it’s big front porch. The door to enter the house is in the center. To porch stage right are two big comfortable wicker porch chairs. To porch stage left is a wicker settee for two people (closest to the door) and a rocking chair. At ground level, stage left, there is a small table flanked by two garden chairs off the porch (for a lemonade service). In the center (in front of the porch) is the statue of “Eve” in the front yard (low level so as not to block the porch view).
The rest of the stage is made to show the plants and trees of the rural setting of an old southern Georgia plantation.
COSTUMES
All but the ghost of Eve and the Hessian Soldier (in uniform) are dressed to the 1960’s era.
The ghost of Eve is pale and all dressed in white, ankle length, southern colonial dress. A white long-haired wig and white glittering make-up is suggested. She is a ghost.
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