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A Poetic Drama in One Act

on 5WA Cardiff

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Presented by The Bath Citizen House Players
Relayed from The Summer School of Dramatic Art, Citizen House, Bath

"Holiday"
by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Characters:
Eva Sparks, a widow
Polly, her younger daughter
Nelly, her elder daughter
Daniel, Nelly's lover
Scene: A room in a tenement dwelling on the evening of Whit-Monday. Eva Sparks is sitting on the bed on which her daughter Nelly lies unconscious, with her eyes open, and her hands moving in a regular succession of mechanical motions. Her second daughter Polly stands near the window looking out into the dismal courtyard.

The Bath Citizen House Players in A Reading of the Poems of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
including "Songs of the Fair" and "Flannan Isle"

Contributors

Author (Holiday)/Poet:
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
[Actors]/Readers:
The Bath Citizen House Players

5WA Cardiff

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