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Название: The Complete Plays of J. M. Barrie - 30 Titles in One Edition

Автор: Джеймс Барри

Издательство: Bookwire

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СКАЧАТЬ Let’s go to Toole’s his version says,

       For it’s a rare — rare good place

       Your taste his plays are sure to strike

       And there you’ll find the kind you like.

      (They dance and die as in waxwork)

      CURTAIN

      Jane Annie

       Table of Contents

       Dramatis Personae

       Act I.

       Act II.

       Finale.

      Dramatis Personae

       Table of Contents

      A Proctor

      Sim (Bulldog)

      Greg (Bulldog)

      Tom (a Press Student)

      Jack (a Warrior)

      Caddie (a Page)

      Miss Sims (a Schoolmistress)

      Jane Annie (a Good Girl)

      Bab (a Bad Girl)

      Milly (an Average Girl)

      Rose (an Average Girl)

      Meg (an Average Girl)

      Maud (an Average Girl)

      Schoolgirls, Press Students, and Lancers.

      The Scene is obviously laid round the corner from a certain English University Town.

      ACT I.

       First Floor of a Seminary for the Little Things that grow into Women.

      ACT II.

       A Ladies’ Golf Green near the Seminary.

      TIME.

       The Present.

      One Night elapses between the Acts.

      Act I.

       Table of Contents

      SCENE. — First floor of the Ladies’ Seminary. The GIRLS are exchanging their last confidences for the night.

       Enter CADDIE with their candles.

      CHORUS OF GIRLS.

       Goodnight! Goodnight!

       The hour is late;

       Though eyes are bright,

       No longer wait!

       Though clear the head,

       Though wit may shine,

       To bed! To bed!

       It’s nearly nine!

       Dining-room clock strikes.

      MILLY. Now the last faint tint has faded.

      ALL. Goodnight! Goodnight!

      MILLY. And the west in gloom is shaded.

      ALL. Goodnight! Goodnight!

      MILLY. See the moon her vigil keeping.

      ALL. Goodnight! Goodnight!

      MILLY. Torpor o’er the earth is creeping

      ALL. Goodnight! Goodnight!

       Drawingroom clock strikes.

      ALL. Goodnight! Goodnight!

       A-talking thus,

       Though eyes are bright,

       Is not for us.

       The eve is past,

       The shadows fall,

       And so at last

       Goodnight to all.

       All retire except CADDIE, who is roused from a profound reverie by the misbehaviour of the clock. He makes short work of it. Exit

      CADDIE. There is a knock at the door, and the GIRLS reappear.

      MEG. It was the front door!

      MILLY. Who can be calling at such a fearsomely late hour as nine o’clock?

      ROSE. Why doesn’t some one peep down the stairs.

      BAB runs downstairs.

      MAUD. That bold Bab has gone. Miss Sims will catch her.

      MILLY. Oh! I can see. (Looks over staircase.)

      ALL. Well?

      MILLY. A man!

      ROSE. At last!

      MILLY. Bald!

      ROSE. The wretch!

      MILLY. He has two other men with him.

      MEG. Two! Girls, let us go and do our hair this instant.

      MILLY. They are shewn into Miss Sims’s private room. Ah!

      MAUD. What?

      MILLY. The door is shut.

      ROSE. What a shame!

      MEG. What is Bab doing all this time?

      MILLY. She has her ear at the keyhole.

      MAUD. СКАЧАТЬ