The Season at Sarsaparilla
Season at Sarsaparilla, The Author: Patrick White
First Performance: 1962, Adelaide
Published: 1965
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Kitchens and yards of 3 middle-class families, suburbs of Sydney, 1960s
Cast: 9m, 5f, 2 children (f)
Three families are beginning their day in Sarsaparilla: business executive Clive Pogson and his fastidious wife Girlie, with their daughter Judy, a keen violinist, and their second precocious daughter Pippy; Harry Knott, trading in men's wear, and his pregnant wife Mavis, with her brother Roy, a teacher with pretensions to becoming a writer; and the Boyles, which the others look down on, because Nola is jolly and blowsy, and her husband Ernie is a sanitary man. Judy and Roy, who are close, suffer from the philistinism of their families. Housework is carried out, and the day passes....
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