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Skirmishes

  • Catherine Hayes
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3F
  • ISBN: SFUK-12643

An old lady is dying. At her bedside sits her eldest daughter, Jean, who has nursed her throughout. When the younger sister, Rita, arrives the daughters angrily bicker and bait each other, gradually revealing the miserable unhappiness of their own lives.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
An old lady is dying. At her bedside sits her eldest daughter, Jean, who has nursed her throughout. When the younger sister, Rita, arrives the daughters angrily bicker and bait each other, gradually revealing the miserable unhappiness of their own lives. Jean gives vent to her feelings with biting, black humour and sarcasm, berating Rita, who has remained deaf to entreaties for help nursing the mother. The ultimate schism comes with the mother's final outburst, denouncing Jean and telling Rita all will be left to her.

  • Casting: 3F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female