The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act

By Booth Tarkington

"The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act" by Booth Tarkington takes place in a country hotel in the United States which has been made to serve the upper class. This setting is an ideal location for trysts of all kinds, with romance heavy in the air as young men and women find themselves on the premises. With a small cast of characters, the psychology of what happens when one finds themself somewhere new where they can be uninhibited runs rampant throughout the act.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 6, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066230609

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist, known for most of his career as “The Midwesterner.” Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Tarkington was a personable and charming student who studied at both Purdue and Princeton University. Earning no degrees, the young author cemented his memory and place in the society of higher education on his popularity alone—being familiar with several clubs, the college theater and voted “most popular” in the class of 1893. His writing career began just six years later with his debut novel, The Gentleman from Indiana and from there, Tarkington would enjoy two decades of critical and commercial acclaim. Coming to be known for his romanticized and picturesque depiction of the Midwest, he would become one of only four authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once for The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921), at one point being considered America’s greatest living author, comparable only to Mark Twain. While in the later half of the twentieth century Tarkington’s work fell into obscurity, it is undeniable that at the height of his career, Tarkington’s literary work and reputation were untouchable.

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Booth Tarkington

The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066230609

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THE PEOPLE AS THEY COME INTO THE PLAY

THE TRYSTING PLACE

Dorothy’s Neighbors

Miss Somebody Else

Purple and Fine Linen

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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.

Printed in the United States of America

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THE PEOPLE AS THEY COME

INTO THE PLAY

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Mrs. Curtis

, The Young Woman, twenty-five or perhaps even a little older.

Lancelot Briggs

, The Boy, slim and obviously under twenty.

Mrs. Briggs

, his mother, a handsome woman of forty-five or fifty.

Jessie

, his sister, a pretty girl of about twenty.

Rupert Smith

, The Young Man, about twenty-five.

Mr. Ingoldsby

, a man of fifty-five or, possibly, sixty.

The Mysterious Voice

, male and adult.

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THE TRYSTING PLACE

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The scene is a room just off the lounge of a hotel in the country. However, this is not a country hotel; but, on the contrary, one of those vast and elaborate houses of entertainment that affect an expensive simplicity in what is called the colonial manner, and ask to be visited—by those financially able to do so—in the general interest of health and the outdoor life. The wall at the back of the stage is broken only by symmetrically spaced pilasters of an ivory color; each of the side walls is broken in the same manner; but here the pilasters help to frame two rather broad entrances, one at the right and one at the left, and beyond these entrances, on both sides, we have glimpses of the two corridors that lead to them. There are a few old prints—or new prints from old plates—upon the walls; and there are flowering plants on stands in the corners. The furniture consists of some chintz-covered easy-chairs, a light wicker settee with a chintz cushion and a valance that reaches the floor; and there are two