Mary Rose

Mary Rose MARY ROSE - A PLAY IN THREE ACTS - ACT I - The scene 4s a room in a small Susse m anor house thd has long been for sale. It is such a siled room that whoever speaks rst here is a bold one, unless indeed he merely mutters to himself, which they perhaps allow. A11 of this rooms past which can be taken away has gone. Such light as there is comes from the only window, which is at the back and is incompletely shrouded in sacking. For a moment this is a mellow light, and if a photograph could be taken quickly roe might find a disturbing smile on the rooms face, perhaps like the Monna Lisas, which cam, surely, of iaer knowing what only the dead should h. Thete are two doors, one leading dmwmtairs the other is at the back, very insignificant, though it is the centre of this disturbing history. The rod-paper, heavy in the adherence of other papers of a still older date, has peeled and leans f m a r d here and t k e in a grotesque bow, as men have hung in chains m migM predid tkat the n mud hemd here manll be in the future mhen amtk M e of paper lowens. Save for two pclcking-me, the only furniture is a worn easy-chair doddering by the unlit fire, like some foolish old man. We might play with the disquieting fancy that this room, once warm with lo ei, s dill alive but is shrinking from observation, and thd with our departure they cunningly set to again at the apparently never-ending search which goes on in some empty old houses. Some one is heard clumping up the stair, and the caretaker enters. It is not she, however, who clumps she has been here for several years, and has become suflciently a pad of the house to move noiselessly in it. TheJirst thing we know about her is thd she does not like tobe in this room. She is an elderly womanof gaunt frame and with a singular control over herself. There may be some one, somewhere, who can make her laugh still, one never knows, but the effort would hurt her face. Even the war, lately ended, meant very little to her [...] Autor: J. M. Barrie Wydawnictwo: Fisher Press Rok wydania: 2007 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 146 Wymiary: 14 x 21.6 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781408633298