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Drawing Rooms, Second Floor, and Attics: A Farce, in One Act

Chapter 1: Characters.
By John Maddison Morton
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The one-act farce follows the chaotic preparations for a house party in a crowded London lodging, where servants, retired tradesmen, young women, and prospective suitors collide in a succession of comic mishaps. Rapid entrances, physical humor—including chimney-climbing and a crushed hat—and mistaken identities create escalating confusion that drives brief, tightly staged scenes. The play trades on social pretension, domestic disorder, and romantic misunderstanding, using cramped spaces (attic, second floor, drawing rooms) for sight gags and verbal sparring. Designed for a short, lively performance, it emphasizes pace, character types, and situational comedy over psychological depth.

DRAWING ROOMS,
SECOND FLOOR, AND ATTICS.

A Farce,

IN ONE ACT.

BY

JOHN MADDISON MORTON, ESQ.,

(Member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society),

AUTHOR OF

Lend me Five Shillings, Three Cuckoos, Catch a Weazel, Where there’s a Will there’s a Way, John Dobbs, A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion, Going to the Derby, Your Life’s in Danger, Midnight Watch, Box and Cox, Trumpeter’s Wedding, Done on Both Sides, Poor Pillicoddy, Old Honesty, Young England, King and I, My Wife’s Second Floor, Who do they take me for? The Thumping Legacy, Milliners’ Holiday, Wedding Breakfast, Irish Tiger, Attic Story, Who’s the Composer? Who’s my Husband? Slasher and Crasher, Prince for an Hour, Away with Melancholy, Waiting for an Omnibus, Betsy Baker, Who Stole the Pocket-Book? Two Bonnycastles, From Village to Court, Grimshaw, Bagshaw, and Bradshaw, Rights and Wrongs of Women, Sent to the Tower, Our Wife, Brother Ben, Take Care of Dowb—, Wooing One’s Wife, Margery Daw, The Double-Bedded Room, the “Alabama,” &c. &c.

THOMAS HAILES LACY,
89, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.

DRAWING ROOMS, &c.

First performed at the Royal Princess’s Theatre, (under the management of Mr. George Vining), on Easter Monday, the 28th of March, 1864.

Characters.

TRIPTOLEMUS BROWN Mr. DAVID FISHER.
MR. BUNNY (a retired Furrier) Mr. H. MELLON.
MR. COCKLETOP Mr. C. SEYTON.
CAPTAIN HARDAPORT Mr. H. FORRESTER.
LUKE SHARP (a Pastrycook’s Assistant) Mr. R. CATHCART.
JONATHAN (Servant to Mr. Bunny) Mr. CHAPMAN.
CAROLINE BUNNY Miss EMMA BARNETT.
ARABELLA HARDAPORT (a Miliner) Miss REBECCA POWELL.
PHŒBE FURBELOW (niece to Jonathan) Miss HELEN HOWARD.

Time in Performance—45 minutes.

COSTUMES OF THE DAY.