The Five Dollar Woman

New One-Act Play!
The Five Dollar Woman

The ten-minute drama "God in My History", an Australian celebration of the power of God through a willing vessel, has been renamed and remodelled.

"The Five Dollar Woman" is now available for 8 actors (4 male, 4 female) for use on a functioning theatre stage. Stage charts are provided for prop positioning, actor entrance and exit directions (all operating from stage left), and actor movement on stage.

The play is still available in Convention format, but participants need to know it requires speedy costume changes because actors play more than one role -- meaning creativity and lots of practice!

The kit is not available in colour at this time. If you don't have access to a real $5 Chisholm note, save this image and print it on a colour printer.

This image is courtesy of the Reserve Bank of Australia. You can read the history of the note here at the Reserve Bank's online Museum.

What's the play about?

This drama is based on the life of Caroline Chisholm, the woman who said that what Australia needed most was good and virtuous women. The theme of God’s involvement in our history is depicted through a father/daughter conversation in his barrister’s office and their visualizing of the lives of immigrants in the convict town of Sydney in 1838, closing with a personal challenge for Christian service.