MARY TRASK. Sarah Padden
THADDEUS TRASK. John Cameron
A NORTHERN SOLDIER. Glenn Hunter
A SOUTHERN SERGEANT. Thomas Hamilton
A SOUTHERN PRIVATE. Gordon Gunnis
"The Clod" was first produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club, in March, 1914, with the cast as follows:
MARY TRASK. Christine Hayes
THADDEUS TRASK. Norman B. Clark
A NORTHERN SOLDIER. Dale Kennedy
A SOUTHERN SERGEANT. James W. D. Seymour
DICK. Richard Southgate
THE CLOD CHARACTERS
THADDEUS TRASK
MARY TRASK
A NORTHERN SOLDIER
A SOUTHERN SERGEANT
DICK
SCENE: The kitchen of a farmhouse on the borderline between the Southern and Northern states. TIME: Ten o'clock in the evening, September, 1863.
The back wall is broken at stage left by the projection at right angles of a partially enclosed staircase, four steps of which, leading to the landing, are visible to the audience. Underneath the enclosed stairway is a cubby-hole with a door; in front of the door stands a small table. To the left of this table is a kitchen chair. A door leading to the yard is in the centre of the unbroken wall back; to the right of the door, a cupboard, to the left, a stove. In the wall right are two windows. Between them is a bench, on which there are a pail and a dipper; above the bench a towel hanging on a nail, and above the towel a double-barrelled shot-gun suspended on two pegs.
In the wall left, and well down stage, is a closed door leading to another room. In the centre of the kitchen stands a large table; to the right and left of this, two straight-backed chairs.
The walls are roughly plastered. The stage is lighted by the moon, which shines into the room through the windows, and a candle on table centre. When the door back is opened, a glimpse of a desolate farmyard is seen in the moonlight.
When the curtain rises, THADDEUS TRASK, a man of fifty or sixty years of age, short and thick set, slow in speech and movement, yet in perfect health, sits lazily smoking his pipe in a chair at the right of the centre table.