Harvey
Harvey Alternative Title: The Pooka
Author: Mary Chase
First Performance: 1944, New York
Published: 1950
Genre: Com. in 3 acts
Setting: Dowd's mansion and Chumley's Rest asylum, USA, 1940s
Cast: 6m, 6f
Veta Louise Simmons, an empty-headed socialite, lives with her daughter Myrtle Mae, a plain, supercilious woman, in their brother's home. Although their brother Elwood P. Dowd is wise and good-natured, he is a social embarrassment, because his constant drinking has led him to believe that he is accompanied everywhere by Harvey, an invisible giant white rabbit. When Elwood upsets the rich and well-connected Mrs Ethel Chauvenet by introducing Harvey to her, Myrtle decides it is time to lock her uncle away. However, when they arrive at the asylum, it is Myrtle who is assumed to be...
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