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The man who ate the popomack

Chapter 3: Scenes and Characters
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This four-act tragi-comedy stages the interplay of love, imagination, and social pretension through a sequence of public and private scenes. It deliberately blurs outer action and inner experience by bringing dreams and subconscious memories onto the stage, using theatrical experiment to examine desire, self-deception, and artistic judgment. Characters argue about modern art, enact romantic entanglements, and confront the gap between appearance and interior life, yielding a satirical yet melancholic study of longing and the limits of performance.

Scenes and Characters

Act i. Blair’s Picture Gallery off Regent Street page 1
Act ii. Drawing room at Sir Solomon Raub’s Town House in Charles Street, Mayfair 14
Act iii. Three months later. Lord Belvoir’s flat in Half Moon Street 35
Act iv. The same. Some months later 63
Man-About-Town. Old Man. A Woman. A Man
First Young Man. Second Young Man
Muriel Raub. Lord Belvoir. Parlourmaid

Lady Olivia, daughter of the Marquis of Beaufort

Sir Solomon Raub, millionaire Jewish financier, head of Raub Bros, China & East India merchants

Lady Phaoron, a woman of fifty, wife of Sir Philo

Sir Philo Phaoron, famous Egyptologist, small, and about 60–65

Harringham, butler to Sir Solomon Raub

Nosegay, valet to Lord Belvoir, a simple stolid fellow of 28

Hon. Rupert Clavelly

Captain Anthony, a creation of Belvoir’s imagination, made up exactly to resemble the Old Man of Act I, but with a white beard