Short Plays for Small Stages (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Short Plays for Small StagesCast.Mr. Beverley.Lord Cranford.Mr. Betterton.Mr. Wells.Bates (Beverley's man).Mrs. Minchant (Lady Betty's companion).Lady Betty Burnay.Scene: Beverley's house in the Haymarket. Midnight-Period, 1750.A sitting-room with doors R and L. A recess window C at back. Card-table down C. Furniture to dress stage.When curtain rises, Bates, an old servant, timid and respectable, is lighting the candles about the room. Off L a ringing, careless voice can be heard singing "Hey nonny, nonny!"A church clock in the distance strikes twelve.Bates (tearfully, as with trembling hand he lights one of the candles). Five - six - seven - eight - nine - ten - eleven - twelve. Deary, deary! This London life's wearing me away. (Irritably.) Take the flame, fool!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.