Six Short Plays

Produced by David Widger
By John Galsworthy
Contents:
The First and The Last The Little Man Hall-marked Defeat The Sun Punch and Go
KEITH DARRANT, K.C. LARRY DARRANT, His Brother. WANDA.
Between SCENE I. and SCENE II.—Thirty hours. Between SCENE II. and SCENE III.—Two months.
It is six o'clock of a November evening, in KEITH DARRANT'S study. A large, dark-curtained room where the light from a single reading-lamp falling on Turkey carpet, on books beside a large armchair, on the deep blue-and-gold coffee service, makes a sort of oasis before a log fire. In red Turkish slippers and an old brown velvet coat, KEITH DARRANT sits asleep. He has a dark, clean-cut, clean-shaven face, dark grizzling hair, dark twisting eyebrows.
KEITH. Who's there?
The sound of LARRY's breathing can be heard.
LARRY comes skirting along the wall, as if craving its support, outside the radius of the light.
LARRY stands still again and heaves a deep sigh.
LARRY. It's true.