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Miss Roach's War

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 3m, 1any gender (adult)

Patrick Hamilton, Richard Kane

Miss Roach's War
by Richard Kane
Adapted from "The Slaves of Solitude" by Patrick Hamilton

Adapted from The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton. It's 1943. The Rosamund Tea Rooms houses several women and elderly men, all of them single and lonely, who nurse resentments and wage minor wars with each other. Enid Roach makes two unfortunat…

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Adapted from The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton. It's 1943. The Rosamund Tea Rooms houses several women and elderly men, all of them single and lonely, who nurse resentments and wage minor wars with each other. Enid Roach makes two unfortunate friendships which heighten the tension to breaking point: one with Pike, an American lieutenant, the other with Vicki Kugelmann, a German who steals Pike from Enid and then sets about humiliating her former friend.
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M3 (35, 59, 70s) F5 (20, 39, 60s) or M3 F4 with doubling.
  • Time Period 1940s / WWII

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Patrick Hamilton

Patrick Hamilton

Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) was born in Hassocks, Sussex in 1904. He and his parents moved a short while later to Hove, where he spent his early years. He published his first novel, Craven House, in 1926 and within a few years had established a wide readership for himself.

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