Quartet
Carole Tricker
Genre: Drama
Cast size: 4
Duration: One Act
Carole Tricker | Drama | One Act | 1m, 3f
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This is a story of a dysfunctional family who have never talked to each other enough or shared their thoughts and feelings. After many years of marriage, middle-aged Jeff and Margaret do not get on. Arguments are frequent in their house. They also have two daughters – Sheila and Pauline. Sheila, who used to live at home has recently moved to her own flat. She used to be her father’s favourite daughter, but with revelations about her sister Pauline, who lives in a nursing home puts a new strain on her relationship with her parents.
The play is in the form of three linked monologues which makes it easy for rehearsal. It requires little in the way of a set. The first part of the play is set around a bench outside the nursing home, the second also outside, and the last monologue is in Sheila’s flat – which can be represented by a sideboard with some framed photos on it. It is a play for four actors, but one is a non-speaking part. This play won the 1999 Fife Council Libraries Creative Writing Award and was highly commended in the Fife round of the SCDA Festival that year.
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