Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act
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Why the Chimes Rang - Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden
Why the Chimes Rang
A Play in One Act
by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden
Adapted from the story of the same name:
by Raymond McDonald Alden
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Table of Contents
PREFACE.
CHARACTERS.
WHY THE CHIMES RANG.
APPENDIX.
SCENERY.
LIGHTING.
MUSIC.
COSTUMES.
PROPERTIES.
PREFACE.
This little play is prentice work done in Professor George P. Baker's class, English 47 at Radcliffe College in the fall of 1908. Several years later it was staged by Professor Baker in the 47 Workshop,
his laboratory for trying out plays written in the Harvard and Radcliffe courses in dramatic technique.
I am glad to acknowledge here my indebtedness to the Shop
and its workers for this chance of seeing the play in action. Of the various advantages which a Workshop
performance secures to the author none is more helpful than the mass of written criticism handed in by the audience, and representing some two or three hundred frank and widely varying views of the work in question. I am especially grateful for this constructive criticism, much of which has been of real service in the subsequent rewriting of the piece.
Why the Chimes Rang
was again tried out the next year in seven performances by the Workshop
company in various Boston settlements. Other groups of amateurs have given it in Arlington, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, California and in Honolulu. These performances have proved that while its setting may seem to call for the equipment of a theatre, the play can be acceptably given in any hall or Sunday school room.
Suggestions for the simplest possible staging have been added to the present publication in an appendix which contains data on the scenery, music, lighting, costumes and properties for the piece.
CHARACTERS.
Time:—Dusk of a day of long ago.
__________
Scene:—The interior of a wood-chopper's hut on the edge of a forest.
WHY THE CHIMES RANG.
The scene is laid in a peasant's hut on the edge of a forest near a cathedral town. It is a dark low-raftered room lit only by the glowing wood fire in the great fireplace in the wall to the right, and by a faint moonlight that steals in through the little window high in the left wall. This window commands a view of the cathedral and of the road leading down into the town. The only entrance into the hut is the front door near the window.
The furnishings are few: two substantial stools, one near the window, the other before the fire, logs piled up near the hearth, and on the chimney shelf above a few dishes, three little bowls, three spoons and a great iron porridge pot. A wooden peg