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St. George's Episcopal Church in New York City

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Nativity Drama with Tableaux and Choral Music

One Act

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2 children (for tableaux)

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Arthur Gelb's comments on THE CURATE'S PLAY as presented at St. George's Episcopal Church in New York City: "Its intention is to make meaningful, in modern terms, the lovely but remote tableau of the miracle of Bethlehem. To this end, Mr. Banks has superimposed a robust, contemporary drama upon a series of stylized, pantomimed episodes of the Nativity, connected by Biblical narrative. The Christmas pageant takes place during what is supposed to be an actual church service. . .The pageant is interrupted by the young curate's plea for a doctor (who rises from a pew and strides to the chancel). A woman comes forward from another pew and offers her fur coat as covering for the mother-to-be. A second woman protests noisily from her pew against the unorthodox proceedings, expresses her bigoted view that charity to strangers is a matter for the Police Department, not the Church, and angrily leaves the service. The doctor briefly suspends his off-stage ministerings to harangue the curate about the population explosion

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College aged Jason Redwine is about to depart for a European trip with his cousin, Cassandra, a teenager, who is madly in love with him. But their trip is interrupted when Jason learns he is about to become the father of Dolly Lumpkin's child, and he decides to stay and marry her. Nineteen years later, Jason is now forty and the father of Harriet. She follows family tradition by becoming pregnant by a local high school athlete who doesn't meet the Redwine's social standards. What Jason really wants to do is run off with Cassandra, who has remained a single and ageless expatriate, and let Harriet marry a fluffy cousin who is willing to oblige for a consideration. But in the end he is far too noble; he gives his daughter in marriage to the worthy commoner and faces his future and responsibilities with a dreary wife.