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Last of the Dutch Hotel, The

  • Don Nigro
  • Short Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1900-1910
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573696398

Early in the twentieth century, on the terrace of a Dutch seaside resort hotel, very late in the season, Lady de Grey, patroness of the Royal Italian Opera, and Harry Cust, a newspaper editor who may be her lover, linger at the shore, full of suppressed regrets and dread...

  • Short Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: 1900-1910
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Early in the twentieth century, on the terrace of a Dutch seaside resort hotel, very late in the season, Lady de Grey, patroness of the Royal Italian Opera, and Harry Cust, a newspaper editor who may be her lover, linger at the shore, full of suppressed regrets and dread, endure the ministrations of a sinister waiter and observe some unspeakable, ambiguous and possibly horrifying events transpiring near the edge of the sea.

Published in Gorgons & Other Plays.

  • Casting: 1M, 1F