Big Drum

Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! "
- Summary by ToddHW

NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file.


Cast list:

Philip Mackworth: Nemo

Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW

Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter

Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone

Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens

Collingham Green: Larry Wilson

Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola

Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles

Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows

Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS

John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen

Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis

Lady Filson: Sonia

Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau

Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns

Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle

Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs

Edited By: ToddHW