Canary Waistcoat, The
Dublin Core
Title
Canary Waistcoat, The
Subject
Bush Life
City vs Country
Family Relations
City vs Country
Family Relations
Description
Play Length: One Act
Synopsis: Set in a Hertfordshire Valley. Two widows believe that Zedekiah Twopenny is a widower and is in love with them. They discuss their hopes (and fears of each other) while Zeddy is in a tree eavesdropping. He flirts with them both simultaneously until his wife Selina appears and breaks the spell. The widows resume their neighbourly relations and return home for a cup of tea with a little something in it.
Setting: The top of a hill in Hertfordshire. An afternoon in August.
Characters:
MRS DAVIDS, a widow
MRS SIMMONS, a widow who takes in lodgers
ZEDEKIAH TWOPENNY, a village dry-goods shopkeeper
SELINA, a fluffy young lady of 25
Synopsis: Set in a Hertfordshire Valley. Two widows believe that Zedekiah Twopenny is a widower and is in love with them. They discuss their hopes (and fears of each other) while Zeddy is in a tree eavesdropping. He flirts with them both simultaneously until his wife Selina appears and breaks the spell. The widows resume their neighbourly relations and return home for a cup of tea with a little something in it.
Setting: The top of a hill in Hertfordshire. An afternoon in August.
Characters:
MRS DAVIDS, a widow
MRS SIMMONS, a widow who takes in lodgers
ZEDEKIAH TWOPENNY, a village dry-goods shopkeeper
SELINA, a fluffy young lady of 25
Creator
Tighe, Harry
Source
NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. ANL holds a collection of Henry (Harry) Tighe papers, MS 3696.
Publisher
[not stated in UNE collection record]
Date
1930
Contributor
University of New England Library, New South Wales, Australia
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
Relation
NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection
Format
PDF 5.15MB
Language
en
Type
Text
Identifier
tigh-canarywaistcoat-a4.pdf
Coverage
Australia; 1920-1955
Collection
Citation
Tighe, Harry, “Canary Waistcoat, The,” Campbell Howard Project, accessed April 27, 2024, https://campbell-howard-collection.une.edu.au/items/show/5.