cost drivers

6 actors • 9 characters • unit set • scalable

Robbi
20-22, White, wife of Righteous; short order cook; smartass badass with neon-colored hair; tattoos both dangerous and sweet; on the side of what’s good and what’s right.

Amara
65-75; psychopomp; historic-sites tour guide; wry seer; “Mama” to the Ghost Soldiers and Robbi.

Mrs. Taylor
50; elegant Chair of the Beautification Committee; think Candace Owens meets Condoleeza Rice.

Clay (reincarnates Jimmy)
20, White, son of the diner owner, Civil War re-enactor, the proudest of proud Boys

Righteous (reincarnates Billy)
20-22, Black, Robbi’s husband; sweet, lost, stuck, hurting.

John-o (reincarnates Tanasi)
16-20, Non-White; LGBTQ+; autistic

Ghost Soldiers 

Each is in love with Robbi and want to claim her as their own. 

Can be actors, puppets, masks, or a single actor switching cultural identities.

• Billy
  Black (doubles Righteous, 16-20; caught between impulses.

• Tanasi
  Eastern Cherokee (doubles John-o), 16-20; two-spirit fighter.

• Jimmy
  White (doubles Clay), 20-30; a true believer in the Southern cause

STAGING

Unit set, can be impressionistic, as the diner exists between the corporeal and the spirit worlds, perhaps even staged in an old diner.

Sensory is a character: Sound, color, light, and perhaps scent.