Eleanor and Noel decide to have a 'real' experience and go to spend the night under a bridge together. They meet two thieves and an Aboriginal girl, Daisy, who has just left her job as a nurse maid. Eleanor and Noel decide this rough living isn't for them after all, but Eleanor begins to question the differences between herself and Daisy.
A shorter form of 'Summer Solstice'.
Characters
Mrs Boyd: a grandmother, a wheelchair oracle.
Mrs Jennie Evans: Mrs Boyds widowed daughter.
Mrs Paula Scott: a friend.
Joe Curtis: a scissors and knives man.
Barney: a sneak-thief.
Daisy Bradford: an aboriginal. [sic]
Eleanor Wilkins: a university student.
Noel Bygrave: a university student.
Time
An evening early in the Christmas holidays.
Place
Ipswich.
Scene 1: in Mrs Evans' living-room.
Scene 2: under a bridge.
Scene 3: as Scene 1.
Set
(The scenery may sound involved for a One-Act Play - but it seems simple enough to me. Little space is needed for the Bridge scene, and I think it could be done before a curtain dropped over the living-room. Specially as this scene is to be rather dark, with some moonlight, and only one hurricane lamp.) [Verbatim from author's manuscript]
Scene 1: Mrs Evans' living-room. Let it be of a standard to eschew Genoa Velvet, otherwise it is just as any other living room. Probably Grandma surrounds herself with masses of family photographs, and Jennie adds a a few of her own. The three ladies are having supper round a table, at the end of an evening visit. Mrs Boyd sits there in her wheelchair.
