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Two Summers

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 4m

Gillian Plowman

Two Summers
by Gillian Plowman

Stifled by army life, the Colonel's wife falls in love with the Sergeant sent to play the piano at her dinner parties. Towards the end of the play we realize that the Old Man and Old Woman on stage are their future selves.

Two Summers

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 4m
  • SubGenre
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  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

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Summary
Stifled by army life, the Colonel's wife falls in love with the Sergeant sent to play the piano at her dinner parties. Towards the end of the play we realize that the Old Man and Old Woman on stage are the Sergeant and the Colonel's wife forty years on: she had sacrificed her lifestyle to marry the Sergeant.
Keywords
M4 (30s, 70s) F2 (30s, 70s)
  • Time Period 1970s, 1930s
  • Setting Two sitting-rooms
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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Gillian Plowman

Gillian Plowman
Gillian won the Verity Bargate award in 1988 with Me and My Friend, a poignantly funny play about the release of four patients from a psychiatric hospital into the community. It was first produced at the Soho Poly Theatre in 1990 and at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1992 ...
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