The Spanish Patio
Domestic pathos. Cathy yearns for romance in her life and a Spanish Patio in her house. She can’t wait, leaps into the deep end and goes up in flames, so to speak. He husband is caught with the smoking pistol.
The Hanging of Richard Parker
SAILOR RICHARD PARKER could no longer stand ‘the daily cruelties and privations among the people of the King’s Fleet.’ In a time of war, he led a dangerous mutiny which threatened the very survival of England against Napoleon.
Dialogue with Screens
Bed-sitter solitude. Jane re-lives life’s agonies as she decoratesfolding screens with cut-outs of dead dreams. Maggoty and Budgylook on impassively as poor Jane’s life dwindles away by the minute.
Tear-drops of the Sea-Dragon
Set in a cottage by the sea. A ruined poet returns home to visit his ruined friends – Aneurin of the phantom daughters, the sea-wrack Johnny Conch, and the broken diamond merchant, the dumb Tabor.
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