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Time: Winter and Spring of 1932
Place: The campus of Thomas Malory College in the fictitious town
of Glorious, Pennsylvania.
Two acts. Representative set. Lighting crucial in changing locales, periods of the day, seasons and atmosphere.
CAST
JOAN BERK 19, one of first Jewish students at a formerly restricted college. On the defensive, impulsive, socially green, but determined.
FAYE OWEN 20s, artist's model, undernourished, a survivor.
SUSAN SHAW 19, stylish, affected, well-to-do young coed.
MILDRED HINES 19, Joan's Jewish roommate. Overweight and overprotected, shy, romantic.
MORGAN DALTRY 19, law student with strong feelings for Joan. Wealthy with an easy manner, but not complacent.
CHICK MASON 19, student. Athletic, open and matter-of-fact.
MARGARET FURY 40's to 60s, art professor, earthy, penetrating, droll.
NIVEN LANDAU 60s, glamorous, charismatic, yet often fussy teacher of Poetry and English Literature. At a loss to feel authentic emotions, including humiliation at being relegated to the lower rungs of society because he is a Jew, and at his own physical decline.
JOHN FLANDERS 30s, the Dean of English studies. Wholesome and articulate. New on the faculty and feeling his way. Hired before the Depression sunk it's teeth into the country to a post that, were Niven not Jewish, would have gone to Niven.
ALAN CATHCART 40s, chairman of Board of Trustees of Malory college called in to save the school from financial ruin - grew up in poverty and struggled to achieve his position. He disguises his feelings of inferiority with an exaggerated gregariousness, fueled by an unexpressed sense of injustice.
TED VALLEY 40s, Trustee Board member, accustomed to comfort, scrupulously honest.
JAMES MORROW 30s, Trustee Board member. Fastidious and self-important, maintains a taut rein on his feelings, becoming befuddled and irritated if they are unexpectedly aroused.
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