The Pushcart War
by Gregory A

Dramatized by Gregory A. Falls based on the book by Jean Merrill.

A war begins with a Daffodil Massacre and ends with a Cantaloupe Day!

An action-packed allegory, set in the next century, which looks back on the 1990s when the people of New York City made a choice between progress and pushcarts.

Cartoon-like masks, mobile trucks and pushcarts, fanciful sound effects.

Futuristic costumes.

Cast of 6 men, 2 women (doubling to portray over 50 characters).

In 2011, a television documentary program recaps the 1991 Pushcart War in New York City, which began when Mack, driving a mammoth moving truck, ran over the pushcart belonging to Morris the Florist.

Morris was pitched headfirst into a pickle barrel and daffodils were scattered everywhere.

This calamity was part of a grand conspiracy by "The Three" largest trucking firms in the city to remove all pushcarts, automobiles, and taxis from the streets of New York.

The pushcart peddlers fought back with a "secret weapon," and the battle with the trucks raged on and on.

Finally, the peddlers staged a Peace march, but even this did not stop the trucks; and the mayor charged the pushcarts with disturbing traffic.

The people of New York, however, came to the peddlers' defense in a startling conclusion.