The Great Sassafras Tea Party Group
THE CAPTAIN RUH CLUB
Act and Scene Outline
Act 1: Clubhouse, Members, & Hangouts
Scene 1: Dirty Rat Cheaters. Ball field in Uniontown, PA.
Scene 2: Granny Sets the Stage. At the Meeting Place of the Living and the Dead.
Scene 3: The Clubhouse and Granny's Garage.
Scene 4: The Club Members Line-up. At Marotta Joe's Grocery Store.
Scene 5: A Rocketship is Built. Billy Pike's back yard.
Scene 6: The Launch. From the top of Granny's Garage.
Scene 7: A Finicky Boy Learns to Like Dirt.
Scene 8: The Club and Its Procedures.
Scene 9: The Club Organizes a Wiener Roast.
Scene 10: The Great Sassafras Tea Party
Scene 11: Club Members Confront Their Ignorance
of Girls.
Scene 12: Speculations about Girls.
Scene 13: Girls, Compliments, and Weakness.
Scene 14: The Club's Honorary Girl Member.
Scene 15: A Guest-House on Earth.
Act 2: The Demise of the Club
Scene 1: You Are 28 & I Am Seven.. The Captain's Mother.
Scene 2: The Club Speculates About Dead People. In the Areford Sycamore tree.
Scene 3: Richie "Catechism's" First Confession.
Scene 4: The Holy Chrysalis. In the Areford Sycamore tree.
Scene 5: NewGene Gets a New Seat. The first day of first grade.
Scene 6: The Enchantments of First Grade Girls.
Scene 7: The Captain is Bonked on the Head.
Scene 8: The Treasury. Of popsickle sticks.
Scene 9: Chanting.
Scene 10: Too Much a Mystery
Scene 11: "Don't Go, Guts, If You Don't Want To."
Scene 12: A Bully Serves Popcorn.
Scene 13: An Outline of Embers.
Scene 14: Seedlings Break Through Ashes.
Scene 15: A Recessional.
THE EPILOGUE:
Testimonials. See comments by audiences from 12 performances in the Washington, DC area.
Play Outline by Scene. See titles of THE CAPTAIN RUH CLUB acts and scenes.
Russ Barnes Bio. Brief biography of the playright.
Home page. Return to home page.
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