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Something's Burning

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3f, 2m

Eric Chappell

Something's Burning
by Eric Chappell

This delightful, wry comedy centres on Nell, an attractive and intelligent woman who has been deserted by her husband and feels at the crossroads of her life. Her hopeless love affair with George Rush, a married local teacher and minor poet, seems bo…

Something's Burning

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3f, 2m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
This delightful, wry comedy centres on Nell, an attractive and intelligent woman who has been deserted by her husband and feels at the crossroads of her life. Her hopeless love affair with George Rush, a married local teacher and minor poet, seems bound to end in anger and frustration. George insists on conducting their romance in total secrecy until the arrival in Nell's life of Jim Grant which causes the dying affair to erupt suddenly into flames.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A drawing-room and terrace garden.
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Eric Chappell

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