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Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 3m
Bettine Manktelow
Celia, lonely and highly strung, is struggling to run her small country hotel. Her charming, rakish step-son, Rex, is no help. Joan and her tearaway sister, Eva, are staying at the hotel which represents something of a romantic pilgrimage for Joan who, after ten years, still believes herself in love.
Celia, lonely and highly strung, is struggling to run her small country hotel. Her charming, rakish step-son, Rex, is no help. Joan and her tearaway sister, Eva, are staying at the hotel which represents something of a romantic pilgrimage for Joan who, after ten years, still believes herself in love with Rex. Events lead to a suicide (or is it murder?). The climax involves mistaken identity and mislaid cyanide!
1977: First produced by The Acorn Players at the Granville Theatre, Ramsgate.
Angela Webster: The maid at the hotel, a simple country girl.
George Carter: A gossipy and gloomy old man, also works at the hotel.
Joan Mountstevens: A schoolteacher, prim and plain, repressed. Pre-occupied with her sister's problems. 40s
Celia Randolph: The proprietor of the hotel, sophisticated, self-possessed and imperious. 40s
Cdr. Roy Boothby: A permanent guest at the hotel. Smooth, charming and affable with a military bearing.50s
Eva Mountstevens: Joan's wayward younger sister, pretty and precocious. 18+
Rex Randolph: Celia's stepson, attractive, confident and suave but weak. 35
The bar-lounge of a country hotel in Sussex.
"an intriguing plot" - Thanet Times