Fire in the Hole
by Robert Schenkkan

Name: Fire in the Hole
Brand: Robert Schenkkan
SKU: 9780822213093
Rating: 4.14 (394 reviews)

Highlights

Female

Male

One Act 30 mins 1920s Features Children Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize

Winner! 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

With coal tipple standing where once there were trees, the Blue Star Mining Company owns the valley.

If coal is king, the people of the town are peasants, working like slaves in dangerous mines, paid in script, indebted to the Blue Star for life.

Mary Ann Rowen, married to Tommy Jackson, has buried 4 sons and does not want to see her only remaining boy go into the mines.

A stranger, Abe Steinman, tries to organize the miners into a union, but is betrayed by Mary Ann's husband during the strike.

Abe is hanged and the miners lose heart.

Spurning her husband, Mary Ann takes her son Joshua and leads the miners to victory.

This play is included in The Kentucky Cycle .

Character	Gender	Age	Description
MARY ANNE ROWEN JACKSON Age forty-nine	—	—	Age forty-nine
JOSHUA ROWEN JACKSON Age ten, Mary Anne‘s son	male	—	Age ten, Mary Anne‘s son
TOMMY JACKSON Age fifty, Joshua‘s father	male	—	Age fifty, Joshua‘s father
DOCTOR	—	—	—
MACKIE A miner	—	—	A miner
ANDREW TALBERT WINSTON A mine boss	—	—	A mine boss
SILUS A miner	—	—	A miner
ABE STEINMAN A union organizer	—	—	A union organizer
MOTHER JONES A union organizer	female	—	A union organizer
CASSIUS BIGGS A miner and a bootlegger	—	—	A miner and a bootlegger
SURETA BIGGS Cassius‘s wife	female	—	Cassius‘s wife
PREACHER	—	—	—
LUCY A miner‘s wife	female	—	A miner‘s wife
A MAN In the forest	—	—	In the forest
MINERS, TOWNSPEOPLE, ETC.	—	—	—