Jan 2, 2010
This convoluted play brings stream-of-consciousness techniques to the modern stage, achieving this effect through asides and soliloquies, which fill to some extent the role of the chorus in Greek plays.
Nina Leeds wished to marry Gordon Shaw, but her possessive father prevented it. Gordon’s death in the war leads to Nina’s promiscuity with soldiers.
Her father’s friend Charles Marsden, much her senior, wants to marry her, but his aged mother stands in the way. Dr. Edmund Darrell is attracted to Nina, but marrying such a neurotic woman would damage him professionally....
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