Synopsis
Uncle Tom's Cabin
$10.99 George L. Aiken from Harriet Beecher Stowe
Published by Samuel French Inc
Large Mixed Cast
This is the original six-act version which has been produced thousands of times by professional and amateur companies
George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830 April 27, 1876) was a nineteenth-century American playwright and actor who is best known for writing the most popular of the numerous stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Aiken was a writer of dime novels before he turned to theatre, becoming an actor in the troupe of his cousin, George C. Howard
In 1852, shortly after the publication of Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Aiken wrote his stage adaptation
It was performed by Howard's company, with Aiken playing the hero, George Harris and it proved to be a spectacular success