Young Goodman Brown

One-Acts 20

By: Jack Skeeter Dennis
Cast: 6 M, 5 F, extras (With doubling: 5 M, 5 F)
Performance Time: Approximately 30-45 minutes, 26 pgs.

CLASSIC/HORROR. This adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic horror classic is true to the original story and provides a stunning stage experience. Goodman Brown, a Puritan who takes pride in his family’s history and reputation in Salem Village, leaves his home one evening on a nightmarish errand in which he must travel into a dense, shadowy forest. Along the way, Goodman Brown encounters a mysterious traveler with a walking stick that resembles a large black snake. The traveler convinces Goodman Brown to continue on into the heart of the gloomy forest. When Goodman Brown arrives at a clearing in the forest, he is shocked to see respected townspeople from Salem Village participating in a fiendish ceremony in front of a flaming stone altar.

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