Waiting for an Omnibus in the Lowther Arcade on a Rainy Day: A Farce, in One Act

Chapter 1: WAITING FOR AN OMNIBUS IN THE LOWTHER ARCADE ON A RAINY DAY.

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The play takes place during a downpour in a crowded covered arcade where sheltering shoppers and passersby collide and converse. A matchmaking mother and her daughter, an enthusiastic suitor about to marry, a wealthy bachelor relative, a tailor, and a beadle trade witty banter and comic observations while umbrellas, crowding, and polite etiquette cause minor frictions. Through rapid entrances, exits, and misunderstandings about courtship and money, the one-act farce satirizes social manners and the mercenary side of matrimonial arrangements, relying on timing, physical business, and verbal repartee to drive its compact comic action.

WAITING FOR AN OMNIBUS
IN THE
LOWTHER ARCADE ON A RAINY DAY.

A Farce,

IN ONE ACT.

JOHN MADDISON MORTON,

(Member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society),

AUTHOR OF

Away with Melancholy, From Village to Court, Whitebait at Greenwich, To Paris and Back for Five Pounds, The Woman I Adore, A Capital Match, The Two Bonnycastles, Who Stole the Pocket-book, Your Life’s in Danger, The Midnight Watch, Going to the Derby, Box and Cox, Done on Both Sides, Poor Pillicoddy, Young England, The King and I, My Wife’s Second Floor, Double-Bedded Room, Wedding Breakfast, The Milliners’ Holiday, The Irish Tiger, Who’s the Composer, Who do they take me for? The Attic Story, Brother Ben, Who’s my Husband? Slasher and Crasher, Old Honesty, &c.

THOMAS HAILES LACY,

WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND,

LONDON.