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'Surplus Women' by Stuart Smithers - additional information.


'Surplus Women' by Stuart Smithers
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Period and Geography
Location: Great Britain. Time Periods: 1900 to 1919 and 1940s
Settings and Set Complexity
Number of Sets: 1
Setting: A Room
Set Requirements: Furniture Only and Multiple locations in one set
The script includes characters in the following age range(s):
21 to 35
36 to 50
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In addition to the text, the "Producer's Copy" of the Script includes the following:
A list of the required properties
A description of the set requirements
Style:
Play for two women, which the author describes as a shared monologue - interleaving the thoughts of one woman at two different times of her life, the aftermath of WW1 and the start of WW2.
Synopsis:
In 1919, Mahala, recently widowed in the First World War, looks ahead to an uncertain future. In 1940, now going by the name May, she reflects on her experiences ath the start of the Second.

 
 

 
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