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Legacy by Austin Hawkins Page L e g a c y b y A u s t i n H a w kin s P a g e | 1 PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS PLAY IS FULLY PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT All plays, books, music and other materials published by Heartland Plays, Inc. are fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America and all countries which the United States has reciprocal relations including, but not limited to all countries covered by the Pan-American Copyright Convention, The Universal Copyright Convention and the Berne Convention. All rights to the plays and materials on our website are strictly reserved including, and without limitation, professional and amateur performance rights; motion pictures; public reading; radio and television broadcasting; audio and video recording and reproduction of any type known or yet to be invented; information storage and retrieval systems of any type known or yet to be invented; and the rights of translation into any and all languages. 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L e g a c y b y A ustin Hawkins P a g e | 2 Product Code A0560-F Legacy by Austin Hawkins Dramatised from the papers of Frederick Joseph Manning of Octon Cottage Torquay, England (1879 - 1950) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REPRODUCTION WITHOUT SPECIFIC WRITTEN PERMISSION PROHIBITED Performance Rights Available Exclusively through Heartland Plays, Inc. at heartlandplays.com [email protected] customer service: 406-431-7680 Copyright © 2016 by Austin Hawkins L e g a c y b y A u s t i n H a w kin s P a g e | 3 Legacy by Austin Hawkins A saga of loyal service, unexpected good fortune, betrayal and disappointment set against the background of a fast-changing social scene and the looming threat of World War II. CHARACTERS 5W / 4M + 2 Offstage Voices MAISIE COOPER: About 17, a parlourmaid; innocent, a bit happy go lucky. MARY DRAPER: Mid 40’s, a housekeeper, widow; inclined to be direct and rather bitter but does has a softer side to her nature. JOSEPH MANNING: 56, (in 1935), a gardener/chauffeur; reliable dependable type, down to earth. LADY BANBURY: About 55; dominant haughty manner as befits the class structure in the 1930’s. MR. CODNER: Late 50’s to mid-60’s, local solicitor; rather staid and very formal manner. MR. DIAMOND: Mid 20’s to mid-50’s, Auctioneer's clerk. Cheerful type. LEONARD ST. JOHN COURTNEY: A local “Annuity Consultant” 40 - 50 years old; very dapper, suave manner. but perhaps a bit shifty. FANNY MANNING: About 47, Joseph’s wife; timid manner, but knows her own mind. OLIVE MANNING: Olive and Joseph’s daughter, late 20’s/early 30’s; cheerful, plain “girl next door” type. OFFSTAGE VOICES: (1) Voice of Radio newsreader; (2) Voice of Senior Civil Servant. SETTING ACT 1: Withdrawing room of Octon, a villa in Torre Torquay late 1935, the home of the recently deceased Mr. Noble Acutt. ACTS 2 AND 3: Sitting room of a small rented, working man’s house, the home of Joseph Manning and his Family. The play straddles the era leading up to World War II and the threat of war is becoming very real. The social order is changing as an ongoing result of the first World War and the recovery of the economy following the deep recession of the late 1920’s. There are still many domestic servants, but the practice of employing live-in servants, housekeepers, maids, chauffeurs etcetera is in decline. Electricity and domestic machines are being developed. The play reflects the challenges which the characters are facing as they deal with social changes entwined with the true story of their personal fortunes and follies, and contemplating the enormity of another World War. AUTHOR’S NOTES AT END OF SCRIPT L e g a c y b y A ustin Hawkins P a g e | 4 LEGACY By Austin Hawkins ACT I Scene 1 SETTING: An upper middleclass villa, (Octon St. Michael's Road in Torquay), January 1936. The withdrawing room furnished in an earlier style for the times, a bit "genteel shabby". Stage L an entrance door from the hall, Centre R a plain panel door covered in green baize. Stage R French doors to the garden. There is a large radiogram, or wind up gramophone of the period, a bureau, a three-piece suit or a couple of sofas and a coffee table. A telephone of early vintage, A call bell for servants, and with a clock. On a side table there are silver frames with black and white photos of an old gent with a younger woman. AT RISE: Daytime; the room is unoccupied and is gloomy because the curtains over the French doors are closed. Daylight flooding through the gap. Enter from the hall door, 17-year-old housemaid MAISIE wearing a rather worn and shabby overcoat. She walks over to the window, opens the curtains half way to let in more daylight. She is carrying a 78rpm record. She takes the record from its paper sleeve and puts it on the player, whips off her coat to reveal her black and white maid’s uniform, goes to the green baize door peeks behind it and returns to start the record playing. SFX: Recording of "CHEEK TO CHEEK", (Original version from the 1935 film), starts to play. L e g a c y b y A u s t i n H a w kin s P a g e | 5 MAISIE sways about in a dance adopting the posture of a ballroom dancer lead by an imaginary partner and sings along with the record. Unseen by MAISIE the hall door opens and MRS. DRAPER in hat and coat, clutching her handbag, stands in the doorway, her frame perhaps casting a slightly sinister shadow across the room. MRS. DRAPER, 45 – 50, is a tidily dressed working class woman of the era. She waits for a beat or two unseen by MAISIE. MRS. DRAPER (Loudly) And just what do you think you're up to? MAISIE startled, stops, rushes to the radiogram and stops the music. MRS. DRAPER advances into the room. Getting above yourself aren't you? MAISIE (Contrite) I'm sorry Mary, I just so wanted to try.... MRS. DRAPER I'm still not sure you grasp what being in service is all about Maisie, I'd have thought better of you that I would, and this house still in mourning. (She fixes MAISIE with a stern look) You've done well in the few months you've been here but you need to learn a bit of decorum. (MAISIE looks nonplussed) Don't know, do you? MAISIE (Uncertainly) Manners? MRS. DRAPER Yes that, and deference... In service you defer to your betters. MAISIE Yes, but we're all people. MRS. DRAPER Maybe so, but you owe your daily bread to 'the quality' as people used call 'em. They have money, and what's more a position in society. You have neither. L e g a c y b y A ustin Hawkins P a g e | 6 MAISIE looks uncomfortable. MRS. 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