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Full-Length Play, Drama / 13w
Allan R. Kenward
Hailed as a female Journey’s End, this classic play is the story of WWII nurses on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines. In a makeshift dugout subjected to gunfire, thirteen very different women emerge to offer a collective reaction to war.
Hailed as a female Journey’s End, this classic play – the story of nurses serving on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines during WWII – is a compelling, caustic revelation of human beings under fire. In a makeshift dugout, subjected to gunfire, thirteen very different women emerge to offer a collective reaction to war. These include the strong-minded doctor, her restrained and poised assistant, and the volunteer nurses: a vacuous Southern girl, a swaggering bully, a couple of timid aesthetes, an ex-burlesque performer and the inevitable spy. They get on each other’s nerves, arrest the wrong person for spying, and ultimately confront the real traitor. In the end, they are rescued from their buried dugout – only to face the firing squad.
DOC MARSH – An elderly woman of great activity. SMITTY – A handsome girl in her early thirties. Lean, competent, thorough and cool. FLO HARRIS – A big girl – the kind we see grining at us from news-reels as the winner of a corn-husking contest. Slow of speech and action, she is a bit of a philosopher in her own way. PAT CONLIN – A fiery little pug-nosed girl with a good consignment of freckles, who has a bit of a swagger about everything she does. GRACE LAMBERT – A well-formed and attractive girl of medium height. HELEN DOMERET – A lovely statuesque blonde, who carries herself like a model and whose thoughts continually run to men. NYDIA JOYCE – A cute little literal-minded Southerner. SUSAN and ANDRA WEST – Auburn-haired English girls. Susan, the elder, is the leader, continually protecting and looking out for the more fragile Andra. CONSTANCE MARKS – A Dresden-doll of a girl, beautifully turned out, delicate and, one might think, too fragile for the work ahead. STEPHANY FOLDEN (STEVE) – A large, raw-boned, muscular gal who carries herself like a man. SADIE – A substantial middle-aged woman.
A converted gun emplacement adjacent to Bataan Peninsula, early in 1942.