The Knack
Knack, The Author: Ann Jellicoe
First Performance: 1961, Cambridge, England
Published: 1962; rev. 1964
Genre: Com. in 3 acts
Setting: Rented house in Tottenham, London, c.1960
Cast: 3m, 1f
Tom, Colin, and Tolen, three young men who have rented a house in north London, are now inexpertly attempting to decorate it. Tolen, a flashy motorcycle-riding individual, is head of the pecking order, so does not help with the work, but impresses the others with boasting about his ‘knack’ for sexual conquests. Tom, a voluble schoolteacher, has persuaded Colin, the lowest in the pecking order, in whose name the house is rented, to help him decorate Tom's room, which now contains nothing but a ladder, a couple of chairs, and a bed. When Nancy Jones, a young new arrival in London, knocks on the window to ask for...
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