Archive for Drama Scripts

A Bit O’ Love – Act III

ACT III
Scene I

In the BURLACOMBES’ hall-sitting-room the curtains are drawn, a lamp burns, and the door stands open. BURLACOMBE and his wife are hovering there, listening to the sound of mingled cheers and groaning.
MRS BURLACOMBE
Aw! my gudeness–what a thing t’appen! I’d saner ‘a lost all me ducks. [She makes towards the inner door] I can’t [...]

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A Bit O’ Love – Act II

ACT II
Scene I
About seven o’clock in the taproom of the village inn. The bar, with the appurtenances thereof, stretches across one end, and opposite is the porch door on to the green. The wall between is nearly all window, with leaded panes, one wide-open casement whereof lets in the last of the sunlight. A narrow [...]

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A Bit O’ Love – Act I

A Play by John Galsworthy
ACT I
It is Ascension Day in a village of the West. In the low panelled hall-sittingroom of the BURLACOMBE’S farmhouse on the village green, MICHAEL STRANGWAY, a clerical collar round his throat and a dark Norfolk jacket on his back, is playing the flute before a very large framed photograph of [...]

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Arms and the Man – Act III

ACT III
In the library after lunch. It is not much of a library, its literary equipment consisting of a single fixed shelf stocked with old paper-covered novels, broken backed, coffee stained, torn and thumbed, and a couple of little hanging shelves with a few gift books on them, the rest of the wall space being [...]

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