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Title: The Straw

Author: Eugene O'Neill

Release Date: September 16, 2007 [EBook #22638]

Language: English

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The Emperor Jones

_The Straw_, and '_Diff'rent_

Three Plays by

Eugene O'Neill

Jonathan Cape
Thirty Bedford Square, London

FIRST PUBLISHED 1922
REPRINTED IN 1925
REPRINTED IN 1931
REPRINTED IN 1935
REPRINTED IN 1953
REPRINTED IN 1955
REPRINTED IN 1958
REPRINTED IN 1965

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
BUTLER AND TANNER LTD. FROME AND LONDON
BOUND BY A. W. BAIN AND CO. LTD.

Characters

Bill Carmody
Mary }
Nora } _his children_
Tom }
Billy }
Doctor Gaynor
Fred Nicholls
Eileen Carmody, _Bill's eldest child_
Stephen Murray
Miss Howard, _a nurse in training_
Miss Gilpin, _superintendent of the Infirmary_
Doctor Stanton, _of the Hill Farm Sanatorium_
Doctor Simms, _his assistant_
Mr. Sloan
Peters, _a patient_
Mrs. Turner, _matron of the Sanatorium_
Miss Bailey }
Mrs. Abner } _Patients_
Flynn }
Other Patients of the Sanatorium
Mrs. Brennan

(_The characters are named in the order in which they appear_)

Act One

Scene One: The Kitchen of the Carmody Home--Evening.

Scene Two: The Reception Room of the Infirmary, Hill Farm
Sanatorium--An Evening a Week Later.

Act Two

Scene One: Assembly Room of the Main Building at the Sanatorium--A
Morning Four Months Later.

Scene Two: A Crossroads Near the Sanatorium--Midnight of the Same Day.

Act Three

An Isolation Room and Porch at the Sanatorium--An Afternoon Four Months
Later.

TIME--1910

The Straw

Act One

Act One: Scene One

_The kitchen of the Carmody home on the outskirts of a manufacturing
town in Connecticut. On the left, forward, the sink. Farther back,
two windows looking out on the yard. In the left corner, rear, the
icebox. Immediately to the right of it, in th