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Set in a sitting room off a fashionable hotel lounge, this one-act farce follows a lovesick young man who awkwardly declares affection to a married woman, prompting a cascade of interruptions, misunderstandings, and competing suitors. Family members, a rival young man, an older gentleman, and an unexplained disembodied voice complicate courtship and escalate social embarrassment. The single-scene piece relies on precise stagecraft, brisk dialogue, and physical comedy to expose manners, romantic pretension, and generational differences, driving toward a compact comic resolution.

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Title: The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act

Author: Booth Tarkington

Release date: June 19, 2019 [eBook #59778]

Language: English

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The Trysting Place

A Farce in One Act

By
BOOTH TARKINGTON

New YorkLondon
SAMUEL FRENCH     Samuel French, Ltd.
PublisherPublisher
25 West 45th Street26 Southampton St., Strand

COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

All rights reserved

The professional stage rights of this play are reserved by the Author. The amateur stage rights are held by the Ladies Home Journal. For permission to produce the play application should be made by professional producers to Mr. Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, Indiana, and by amateur producers to the Editor of the Ladies Home Journal.

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