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    One Day More: A Play In One Act
    One Day More: A Play In One Act
    One Day More: A Play In One Act
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    One Day More: A Play In One Act

    By Joseph Conrad

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    One Day More by Joseph Conrad is a play about young Bessie and her cruel, blind father Carvil and their difficult, trapped seaside life. Excerpt: "Bessie (Flattering). Oh, you are a great one for bargains. (Captain Hagberd delighted.) But, Captain Hagberd—if—if—you don't know what may happen—if all that home you've got together were to be wasted—for nothing—after all. (Aside.) Oh, I can't bring it out. Capt. H. (Agitated; flings arms up, stamps feet; stuttering). What? What d'ye mean? What's going to happen to the things? Bessie (Soothing). Nothing! Nothing! Dust—or moth—you know. Damp, perhaps. You never let anyone into the house . . ."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 26, 2019
    ISBN4057664628558
    One Day More: A Play In One Act
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    Joseph Conrad

    Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad’s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad’s writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad’s novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

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      One Day More - Joseph Conrad

      Joseph Conrad

      One Day More

      A Play In One Act

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664628558

      Table of Contents

      CHARACTERS

      SCENE

      A small sea port.

      ONE DAY MORE

      SCENE I.

      SCENE II.

      SCENE III.

      (Capt. H. Harry. Later Bessie) .

      SCENE IV.

      (Bessie and Harry. Later Capt. H. from window) .

      CHARACTERS

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      Captain Hagberd (a retired coasting skipper).

      Josiah Carvil (formerly a shipbuilder—a widower—blind).

      Harry Hagberd (son of Captain Hagberd, who as a boy ran away from home).

      A Lamplighter.

      Bessie Carvil (daughter of Josiah Carvil).

      SCENE

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      A small sea port.

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      To right, two yellow brick cottages belonging to Captain Hagberd, one inhabited by himself the other by the Carvils. A lamp-post in front. The red roofs of the town in the background. A sea-wall to left.

      Time: The present-early autumn, towards dusk.

      ONE DAY MORE

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      SCENE I.

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      CURTAIN RISES DISCLOSING CARVIL and Bessie moving away from sea-wall. Bessie about twenty-five. Black dress; black straw hat. A lot of mahogany-coloured hair loosely done up. Pale face. Full figure. Very quiet. Carvil, blind, unwieldy. Reddish whiskers; slow, deep voice produced without effort. Immovable, big face.

      Carvil (Hanging heavily on Bessie's arm). Careful! Go slow! (Stops; Bessie waits patiently.) Want your poor blind father to break his neck? (Shuffles on.) In a hurry to get home and start that everlasting yarn with your chum the lunatic?

      Bessie. I am not in a hurry to get home, father.

      Carvil. Well, then, go steady with a poor blind man. Blind! Helpless! (Strikes the ground with his stick.) Never mind! I've had time to make enough money to have ham and eggs for breakfast every morning—thank God! And thank God, too, for it, girl. You haven't known a single hardship in all the days of your idle life. Unless you think that a blind, helpless father———-

      Bessie. What is there for me to be in a hurry for?

      Carvil. What did you say?

      Bessie. I said there was nothing for me to hurry home for.

      Carvil. There is, tho'. To yarn

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