Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958 / 2008-07-13 00:00:00
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RADA
_A DRAMA OF WAR IN ONE ACT_
BY
ALFRED NOYES
Author of "The Wine Press," "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern," Etc.
1913
PERSONS OF THE PLAY
RADA, _wife of the village doctor_.
SUBKA, _her daughter, aged twelve_.
ARRAM } _two hostile soldiers quartered_
MICHAEL } _in her house, in time of war_.
NANKO, _a half-witted schoolmaster_.
Several soldiers.
THE SCENE is in the Balkans, in a village which has just been taken by the
enemy, on Christmas Eve.
RADA
SCENE--_A guest-chamber, the typical living-room of a prosperous village
doctor in the Balkans. On the left, a small window and an entrance door.
On the right, a door leading into a bedroom. At the back, an open fire of
logs is burning brightly. Over the fireplace is the eikonostasis, with
three richly coloured and gilded eikons, the central one of the Madonna.
The light, which is never allowed to go out, is burning before it. The
room is lit at present only by this, the fire-light, and two candles in
brass candlesticks on a black wooden table under the window. Rows of
porcelain plates round the walls gleam fitfully.
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