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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>One of the great successes of this distinguished writer. A serious
and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious
youngster starts a rumor about the two women, the rumor soon turns to scandal.
As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her
story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the
gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage has been
done.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><U><o:p><SPAN
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face=Calibri>ROLES TO BE
CAST:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Mrs. Amelia Tilford</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><I>A </I>wealthy widow, Mrs. Tilford is a dignified woman in her
sixties. She has been an influential supporter of the Wright-Dobie School, where
her granddaughter, Mary, is enrolled. Although she is a fair and generous
person, she lacks good judgment when it comes to matters concerning her
granddaughter. She recognizes that Mary is both spoiled and manipulative, but
she dotes on the child and is utterly blind to the girl's vicious
nature.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Agatha</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>A no-nonsense, middle-aged maid in the employ of Amelia Tilford.
She is stern and straight-laced with Mary, who calls her "stupid," although
Agatha clearly sees through Mary's deceptions.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri> <U>Dr. Joseph Cardin</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>Cardin, about thirty-five, is a relaxed and amiable doctor and
Karen Wright's fiancé.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is also
gracious and humorous and seems ideally suited to Karen. Like her, he recognizes
that his cousin, Mary Tilford, is a spoiled but troubled child, which makes him
a dangerous adversary for Mary because he has influence with her
grandmother. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Karen Wright</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>Karen Wright is Martha Dobie's close friend and partner in the
Wright-Dobie School. She is twenty-eight, attractive, warm, and outgoing. She is
admired and respected by her students, for whom she has a genuine affection. She
is also an emotionally stable woman, at ease with herself and
others.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Martha Dobie</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>Karen Wright's friend and co-owner of their school, Martha is about
the same age, twenty-eight. She is described as "nervous" and "high strung" and
is certainly far less composed and self-assured than her friend. It quickly
becomes obvious that she greatly depends on Karen's emotional stability and good
sense to provide her with the confidence needed to make a go of their school.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Lily Mortar</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>Hellman describes Lily Mortar as "a plump, florid woman of
forty-five." She is Martha Dobie' s aunt and teaches at the Wright-Dobie School.
A self-centered woman, she lives in romanticized delusions of her past triumphs
as an actress. She is also vain and very susceptible to flattery, an easy patsy
for a conniving student like Mary Tilford. She refuses to grow old gracefully,
dying her hair and dressing too fancifully for her reduced circumstances (and
expanded waistline). She is also a thorn in the side of Karen and Martha, who
find her pretensions and meddling very
annoying. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=yiv1255901453galesubheader><B><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Grocery
Boy- Teenager</SPAN></U></B></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">He is
almost mute, but his puerile gawking and giggling are indicative of the damage
done to the reputations of Karen and Martha as a result of Mary's
accusations.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Calibri> </FONT></o:p></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Calibri> </FONT></o:p></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>THE GIRLS:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Mary Tilford-14</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>The spoiled granddaughter of Amelia Tilford, Mary is a problem
child at the Wright-Dobie School. She appears "undistinguished," but she is
clever and used to having her own way with her doting grandmother. She also
attempts to manipulate everyone at the school, resorting to a variety of tricks,
including flattery, feigned sickness, blackmail, physical intimidation, and
whining complaints. Karen and Martha are not fooled by her behavior. They easily
penetrate her lies and schemes and insist on disciplining her, but they do not
really understand the depths of the girl's
depravity.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Catherine- 12</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>Catherine is one of the students at the Wright-Dobie School. She
appears only in the first scene, where she attempts to help Lois prepare for a
Latin test. The Latin lesson contributes to the chaotic lack of discipline in
Mortar's classroom, revealing Lily's incompetence as a
teacher.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><U><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>Lois Fisher- 11<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></U></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; RIGHT: auto" class=MsoNormal><B
style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Another of Karen and
Martha's students, she receives Lat<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>in tutoring from
Catherine at the play's opening, conjugating Latin in hectic counterpoint to
Peggy Roger's reading of Portia's "quality of mercy " speech from Shakespeare's
<I>Merchant of Venice </I>and Lily Mortar's languid criticism. Like Catherine,
she plays no significant role in the rest of the
drama<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Evelyn Munn-13</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>One of the girls at the Wright-Dobie School, Evelyn, who lisps, is
relatively quiet and timid. With Peggy Rogers, she overhears the conversation
between Martha Dobie and Lily Mortar; the overheard conversation becomes the
keystone in the malicious arch of lies that Mary Tilford constructs.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Peggy Rogers-13</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><I>A </I>student at the Wright-Dobie School, Peggy, like Evelyn
Munn, is easily intimidated by Mary Tilford. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Helen Burton- 12</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>It is her bracelet that classmate Rosalie Wells "borrows." an act
which allows Mary to blackmail Rosalie into confirming Mary's lies about Karen
and Martha. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri><U>Rosalie Wells-10</U><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>Unlike Peggy and Evelyn, she is not cowed by Mary Tilford, whom she
does not like. In fact, Karen and Martha plan to move Mary in with Rosalie,
hoping that rooming with the stronger girl will put an end to Mary's
troublemaking. But Mary finds out that Rosalie has stolen a bracelet from Helen
Burton and threatens to expose her crime unless Rosalie does what Mary asks.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
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