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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Comedic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Time/Place
Florence Lancaster's flat, London, 1924
Act/Scene
Act 1

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START: Pawnie : It may be tiresome of me, but I think all this colouring is oppressive.
Helen: You make such a “ Fetish ” of house decoration, Pawnie.
Pawnie {wandering round the room): Not at all, but I do like things to be good and right.
[...]
END: Helen ; Thank you so much.
Pawnie: You must realize one thing, everyone is sacrificed to Florence — it’s as it should be — of course, she’s a couple of hundred years too late — she ought to have been a flaunting, intriguing King’s mistress, with black page boys and jade baths and things too divine--

Noel Coward. The Vortex. Ernest Benn Ltd, 1924. Pp. 9-13

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