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Scene Synopsis
Genre:
Letty, with the excitement and attention span
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reserved Genre
for youth, tells Elinor about how she is
passing the time.

Category:

Contemporary
Play Synopsis
Elinor receives a valentine unexpectedly. She
Gender:
considers what Richard Morrison has written and
Female
how it might sway her, if she cared. Letty, Elinor's
niece, believes she is going to get a valentine from
the same man. Who was the valentine really
Age Range: 0 - 100
intended for? Will Letty get the exact one as Elinor?
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Letty says
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Aunt Elinor, I've been reading an awfully
interesting book.

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I've forgotten the name of it, but it is awfully
interesting.
Keywords It's all about broken engagements and
misunderstandings, and they go to the most
elegant ball, and he sends her the loveliest flowers
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out of his own greenhouse, you know.

Clear it is, but

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some particular kind, you know, that means
something. It's a sort of queer name. I wish I could
think of it, so if anybody ever sent me any I'd know
what it was.
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wouldn't you, Aunt Elinor? Well, it makes an awful
then I cared for you a little--to spare you that. Did
lot of trouble anyway, and he quarrels with her, the
you notice the date? It is the eighth of June. Do
nice one, you know, and goes off with the other.
you…
She has the most perfectly lovely dress at the ball --
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to She reveals
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Elinor?

Play Synopsis:
Man and woman discuss why they have reached
the final end of their relationship.

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St. Valentine's Day (Letty)

Say, Aunt Elinor, I've been reading an awfully inter-
esting book.
Oh, I've forgotten the name of it, but it is awfully
interesting. It's all about broken engagements and
misunderstandings, and they go to the most ele-
gant ball, and he sends her the loveliest flowers
out of his own greenhouse, you know.
I've forgotten what kind of flowers it is, but it is
some particular kind, you know, that means some-
thing. It's a sort of queer name. I wish I could think
of it, so if anybody ever sent me any I'd …
more

Scene Synopsis:
Letty, with the excitement and attention span re-
served for youth, tells Elinor about how she is
passing the time.

Play Synopsis:
Elinor receives a valentine unexpectedly. She con-
siders what Richard Morrison has written and how
it might sway her, if she cared. Letty, Elinor's niece,
believes she is going to get a valentine from the
same man. Who was the valentine really intended
for? Will Letty get the exact one as Elinor?

DETAILS

Character:
Letty

Genre:
Comedy

Gender:
Female

Age Range:
13-19

Category:
Contemporary

Themes:
Attention, Determination, Foreign,

The Seagull (Masha)

I am telling you all these things because you write
books and they may be useful to you. I tell you
honestly, I should not have lived another day if he
had wounded himself fatally. Yet I am courageous;
I have decided to tear this love of mine out of my
heart by the roots. By marrying Medviedenko. Oh,
if you knew what it is to love without hope for
years and years, to wait for ever for something
that will never come! I shall not marry for love, but
marriage will at least be a change, and will br…
more

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Masha is talking with Trigorin and assesses how
she will deal with her broken heart.

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Set in the Russian countryside, the cast of charac-
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in the world. Arkadina, an aging actress, comes
home with her lover and begins a series of events
that will ruin her whole family and those of the es-
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Genre:
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Female

Age Range:
20-29

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The Straw (Miss Gilpin)

She saw that you didn't love her- any more than
you did in the days before you left. Oh, I used to
watch you then. I sensed what was going on be-
tween you. I would have stopped it then out of pity
for her, if I could have, if I didn't know that any in-
terference would only make matters worse. And
then I thought that it might be only a surface af-
fair- that after you were gone it would end for her.
You'll have to forgive me for speaking to you so
boldly on a delicate subject. But, don't you see, it…
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Character:
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Genre:
Drama

Gender:
Female

Age Range:
40-59

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An Ideal Husband (Mrs.

Cheveley)
Oh, no! I can’t stand your English house-parties. In
England people actually try to be brilliant at break-
fast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people
are brilliant at breakfast. And then the family
skeleton is always reading family prayers. My stay
in England really depends on you, Sir Robert. Quite
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Mrs. Cheveley

Genre:
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Gender:
Female

Age Range:
30-49

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Trifles (Mrs. Hale)

But I tell you what I do wish, Mrs Peters. I wish I
had come over sometimes when she was here. I
——wish I had. I could've come. I stayed away be-
cause it weren't cheerful—and that's why I ought
to have come.
I—I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's
down in a hollow and you don't see the road. I
dunno what it is, but it's a lonesome place and al-
ways was. I wish I had come over to see Minnie
Foster sometimes.
I can see now— Not having children makes less
work&…
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Mrs. Hale

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Female

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30-49

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The Seagull (Arkadina)

Am I then so old and ugly already that you can talk
to me like this without any shame about another
woman? Oh, you have lost your senses! My splen-
did, my glorious friend, my love for you is the last
chapter of my life. You are my pride, my joy, my
light. I could never endure it should you desert me,
if only for an hour; I should go mad. Oh, my won-
der, my marvel, my king! Let them come! I am not
ashamed of my love. My jewel! My despair! You
want to do a foolish thing, but I don't want you to
do …
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Trigorin tells Arkadina that he is enamored by
Nina. Arkadina scoffs at that and throws herself
into wooing back Trigorin.

Play Synopsis:
Set in the Russian countryside, the cast of charac-
ters comes together desiring more than what they
have. Some want love, some money, some a place
in the world. Arkadina, an aging actress, comes
home with her lover and begins a series of events
that will ruin her whole family and those of the es-
tate.

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Arkadina

Genre:
Drama

Gender:
Female

Age Range:
40-69

Category:
Contemporary

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Love, Feelings, Relationships,

Thirst (Dancer)
Look, you have stolen our water. You deserve to be
killed. We will forget all that.
Look at this necklace. It was given to me by an
English duke--a nobleman. It is worth a thousand
pounds--five thousand dollars. It will provide for
you for the rest of your life. You need not be a
sailor any more. You need never work at all any
more.
Do you understand what that means? That water
that you stole--well, I will give you this necklace--
they are all real diamonds, you know--five thou-
sand dollars--for …
more

Scene Synopsis:
The Sailor had drunk all the remaining water. As
the dancer and gentleman become more crazed,
they begin to suspect the sailor has more water
saved.

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Three people are adrift on a life raft. A gentleman,
a dancer and a sailor all struggle with wasting
away and trying to figure out how they will survive
with dire consequences.

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Dancer

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Drama

Gender:
Female

Age Range:
30-39

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Contemporary

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For All Time (Diane)

Let me talk to you about him. Let me tell you
about us. I am an actress. We met at a supper par-
ty after the theater. You know how shy Maurice
was. He was afraid of most people. I saw that. I
drew him to one side and got him to talk. He was
like a child when any one took a real interest in
him. He told me all about himself at once, about
you, and about Madame le Bargy.... And about
your house in the country, and his garden and
books and his piano and all the things he loved.
Then he went on and …
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St. Valentine's Day (Elinor)

How very absurd and medieval on his part to send
me a valentine!
A real valentine with, I have no doubt, birds and
hearts and cupids and true lover's knots--and--ar-
rows on it. I do not think I shall be entirely satisfied
unless it has a heart penetrated by an arrow.
There is something about a heart, in vivid color,
penetrated by an arrow, that expresses an amount
of sentimental suffering otherwise impossible to
delineate.
I used to be very fond of the openwork ones over
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Elinor is shocked to have received a valentine.

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Elinor receives a valentine unexpectedly. She con-
siders what Richard Morrison has written and how
it might sway her, if she cared. Letty, Elinor's niece,
believes she is going to get a valentine from the
same man. Who was the valentine really intended
for? Will Letty get the exact one as Elinor?

DETAILS

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Elinor

Genre:
Comedy

Gender:
Female

Age Range:
30-49

Category:
Contemporary

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War Brides (Hedwig)

What will happen to Amelia? Have you thought of
that? No; I warrant you haven't. Well, look. A few
kisses and sweet words, the excitement of the
ceremony, the cheers of the crowd, some days of
living together,—I won't call it marriage, for Franz
and I are the ones who know what real marriage is,
and how sacred it is,—then what? Before you
know it, an order to march. Amelia left to wait for
her child. No husband to wait with her, to watch
over her. Think of her anxiety, if she learns…
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Hedwig learns that her sister, Amelia, is to be a
war bride.

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becoming more and more frequent. Hedwig was
engaged to her husband before the war and is
dealing with a pregnancy with her husband by her
side. As she sees other girls becoming war brides,
she knows that they are doing it out of duty for
the government and not for love.
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