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A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 12w, 21m, 10 any gender (adult)
Bertolt Brecht, Rose Kastner, Martin Kastner
English translation by Rose and Martin Kastner.
NOTICE: Please be advised, this title is from the Samuel French Vault and is made from a scan of an archived manuscript. We hope you’ll treasure this glimpse into theatre history.
Plume, the recruiting officer, who has arrived Shrewsbury from London, is informed by his Sergeant, Kite about the state of the market for recruits and love. Recruiting is going badly, but Victoria, the justice's daughter, who a year earlier had been in pigtails, has been visiting a girl put in the family way by Plume. Plume gives his friend the shoe manufacturer, Worthy, a word of advice in matters of the heart and in return Worthy offers him a handsome commission on boots, which Worthy needs soldiers to fill. Brecht takes George Farquhar's Restoration comedy, The Recruiting Officer, and transfers it to the period of the American Revolutionary War.
Captain William Plume Captain Brazen Seargeant Kite Mr. Balance, justice of the peace Victoria, his daughter Mr. Worthy, a shoe manufacturer Mr. Smuggler, a banker Simpkins, butler to Mr. Balance Melinda Moorhill Lady Prude Rose, a country girl Lucy, Melinda’s maid Maggie Sally Thomas Appletree Costar Pearmain Bullock, Rose’s brother William Mike, a potboy Jenny, a soldier’s wife Mrs. Cobb, a dead soldier’s mother Bridewell, a constable A broad-shouldered man An unemployed man The unemployed man’s wife A miner The miner’s wife A pimp Kitty, of Chicken Road A pickpocket A court attendant A drummer A servant
England, during the American War of Independence.