Five Little Plays
by Alfred Sutro
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sutro, Alfred, 1863-1933
- Credits
- Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Diane Monico and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- English drama -- 20th century
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 14519
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14519
- Release Date
- December 29, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FIVE LITTLE PLAYS — BRENTANO NEW YORK 1922
- 2.CONTENTS — THE MAN IN THE STALLS
- 3.THE MAN IN THE STALLS — THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY — THE MAN IN THE STALLS — CURTAIN
- 4.A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED…. — THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY — MR. HARRISON CROCKSTEAD LADY ALINE DE VAUX — A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED…. — SCENE The conservatory of No. 300 Grosvenor Square. Hour, close on midnight. A ball is in progress, and dreamy waltz music is heard in the distance. — CURTAIN
- 5.THE MAN ON THE KERB — THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY — THE MAN ON THE KERB — SCENE: An underground room, bare of any furniture except two or three broken chairs, a tattered mattress on the stone floor and an old trunk. On a packing-chest are a few pots and pans and a kettle. A few sacks are spread over the floor, close to the empty grate; the walls are discoloured, with plentiful signs of damp oozing through. Close to the door, at back, is a window, looking on to the area; two of the panes are broken and stuffed with paper. — THE CURTAIN SLOWLY FALLS
- 6.THE OPEN DOOR — THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY — THE OPEN DOOR — SCENE: The drawing-room of LORD TORMINSTER'S cottage by the sea. It is 2 a.m. of a fine July night; the French windows are open on to the lawn. The room is dark; in an armchair, SIR GEOFFREY TRANSOM, a man of forty, with a frank, pleasant face, is seated, deep in thought. Suddenly the door opens, and LADY TORMINSTER appears and switches on the light. She starts at seeing SIR GEOFFREY. — CURTAIN
- 7.THE BRACELET — THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY — THE BRACELET — THE CURTAIN FALLS
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