Summer of the Seventeenth DollRay Lawler Characters:3 male, 4 female Interior Set This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane cutters: Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck. They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city. Every year Roo has brought a tinsel doll to Olive, his girl, as a gift to symbolize their relatio |
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ain't anythin anyway arch arguin armchair asked back verandah Barney's beer bottles better bloke boys Breaking BUBBA C'mon chair CHAISE LONGUE Crossing d'yer doin Dowd Downstage end dunno EMMA enters Exits upstairs fellers fireplace flamin French doors French windows front door front verandah gettin give goin gunna hand handbag hell JIMMY DEAN Johnnie Johnnie Dowd Kewpie dolls kitchen last night laugh lay-off Left of table look mantel mantelpiece Nancy never nods nothin offstage OLIVE's oughta pause PEARL piano stool pick play pretty races Ray Lawler reckon Right of table Rising Roo and BARNEY Roo's s'pose SCENE season seventeenth doll sideboard silly singin sofa somethin Standard lamps stands staring starts talk taxi tell there's thing told tryin trying turns vase walkin walking sticks What's the matter woman y'know Year's Eve