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'Felicity, who has just finished school, lives in a 'Time-warp' house with her father and aunt. Her mother has lived overseas for ten years. The father is in line for a job appointment to London and his daughter will be required to be hostess, even though she would prefer to go to university — which father thinks would be wasted on a woman. (The play is set in 1959 and echoes the social mores of the time). Is the boss's son who has arrived and taken an interest in Felicity his father's son?' (Source: Helen Haenke Plays Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)
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Characters
Felicity Ryder: 18, unconsciously pretty, introspective.
Ethel Ryder: Felicity's aunt, 50ish.
Sam Ryder: Felicity's father, a little younger than Ethel.
Colin Bakeney: 28, son of Sam's employer.
Dora Ryder: Felicity's mother, right side of 40.
Set
The scene is the living-room of Sam's house. It is an old home, with its Victorian furniture and furnishings perpetuated. The walls, curtains and venetian blinds are a serviceable and unattractive deep green. There is a Victorian lounge-suite, beautifully preserved, of couch, grandfather and grandmother chairs, and six hollow-backed upright ones. Ideally these would be covered in black horsehair; otherwise something serviceable, colourless and unattractive. An oval table. Something large against one wall - say, a bookcase full of bound editions or a fireplace and over-mantel. Opposite wall, onto street, has french-doors. The back of the room is arched into the hall - a wide arch. You can see the stairs going up right, the door to the study near the stair-foot, but the front door is behind the archway. There is a door and kitchen. Two small half-tables - one with telephone near dining-room door, against archway; the other somewhere near french doors. Possibly a couple of large gloomy paintings, executed by Sam's mother. But don't overdo them, or the bric-a-brac.
