Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
In the Whittaker family home, Marion Whittaker casts Larita's marriage to John as another humiliation in the family's history.
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Context
Marion Whittaker is speaking from a place of
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Why should she have married him? Except for what she can get out of him — money and position. He's been made a fool of, just as your father was made a fool of — hundreds of times. We know she's older than John — I don't suppose there was any love, as far as she was concerned; she's just twisted him around her little finger. [...] I thought he would at least have had the decency to give me fair warning.
Noel Coward. Easy Virtue. Harper & Brothers, 1926. pp.19-20.
Performance Tips
- Aim the accusations as if building a case the
Emotional Beat Breakdown
1. Money and Position
- What shifts:
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