Next Time I'll Sing to You
Next Time I'll Sing to You
Author: James Saunders
First Performance: 1962, London
Published: 1963
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: A theatre, c.1960
Cast: 4m, 1f
Meff, a casual joker, and Dust, more serious and pedantic, have arrived for the rehearsal of a philosophical play, but the director Rudge is late. They are joined by Lizzie, who claims that she is standing in for her identical twin sister, also called Lizzie. Rudge eventually arrives and plays a game of ‘verbal cricket’, while Lizzie wonders what she is doing amongst these eccentrics. When the Hermit arrives, the rehearsal can begin. The play is based on the life of Alexander James Mason, the Hermit of Great Canfield, Essex, who spent the last 36 years of his life alone in a hut almost without human contact. The Hermit wants to...
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