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Big Drum |
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![]() Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson : Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip : Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning : Son of the Exiles Noyes : Steven Fellows Underwood : KevinS John : Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer : Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW |
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