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"