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LLOYD MORRIS |
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Plays by Lloyd Morris |
Damask Cheek, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse Theatre, NY | 22 Oct 1942 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129128 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by John Van Druten and Lloyd Morris | |||||
Synopsis: | Costumes, 1909. The literate and charming comedy of manners which delighted New York audiences for months. The play has to do with a middle-aged and repressed English spinster who is sent to America to live with her aunt in the hope of finding a husband. Rhoda is secretly in love with her second cousin who treats her as a confidant, with condescension and misappraisal of her virtues. He fancies himself in love with a slightly tarnished young actress. But Rhoda, homely and sedate as she is, has feminine resources far greater than has the younger and more superficially glamorous woman. There is a secondary love story - that of an adolescent girl for a Don Juan much older than herself - and this story is beautifully depicted. There are also a number of amusing domestic crises, some anti-macassar conventions, some decorous philandering on the sly, and a rousing and very funny brawl involving two of the ladies. The quick, witty and subtle dialogue is a delight in itself - polished and graceful. | |||||
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