



 Produced by David Widger



PLAYS IN THE FOURTH SERIES


A BIT O' LOVE

By John Galsworthy



PERSONS OF THE PLAY

     MICHAEL STRANGWAY
     BEATRICE STRANGWAY
     MRS. BRADMERE
     JIM BERE
     JACK CREMER
     MRS. BURLACOMBE
     BURLACOMBE
     TRUSTAFORD
     JARLAND
     CLYST
     FREMAN
     GODLEIGH
     SOL POTTER
     MORSE, AND OTHERS
     IVY BURLACOMBE
     CONNIE TRUSTAFORD
     GLADYS FREMAN
     MERCY JARLAND
     TIBBY JARLAND
     BOBBIE JARLAND




   SCENE: A VILLAGE OF THE WEST

   The Action passes on Ascension Day.

   ACT I.  STRANGWAY'S rooms at BURLACOMBE'S.  Morning.

   ACT II.  Evening

        SCENE I.  The Village Inn.
        SCENE II.  The same.
        SCENE III.  Outside the church.

   ACT III.  Evening

        SCENE I.  STRANGWAY'S rooms.
        SCENE II.  BURLACOMBE'S barn.




A BIT O' LOVE




ACT I

     It is Ascension Day in a village of the West.  In the low
     panelled hall-sittingroom of the BURLACOMBE'S farmhouse on the
     village green, MICHAEL STRANGWAY, a clerical collar round his
     throat and a dark Norfolk jacket on his back, is playing the
     flute before a very large framed photograph of a woman, which is
     the only picture on the walls.  His age is about thirty-five his
     figure thin and very upright and his clean-shorn face thin