Harry Tighe - The Canary Waistcoat

Brief description

Harry Tighe's The Canary Waistcoat forms part of the Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript, a resource that provides a unique body of research material concerning Australian drama of the period 1920–55.

Full description

Play Length: One Act
Synopsis: Set in a Hertfordshire Valley. Two widows believe that Zedekiah Twopenny is a widower and is in love with them. They discuss their hopes (and fears of each other) while Zeddy is in a tree eavesdropping. He flirts with them both simultaneously until his wife Selina appears and breaks the spell. The widows resume their neighbourly relations and return home for a cup of tea with a little something in it.
Setting: The top of a hill in Hertfordshire. An afternoon in August.
Characters:
MRS DAVIDS, a widow
MRS SIMMONS, a widow who takes in lodgers
ZEDEKIAH TWOPENNY, a village dry-goods shopkeeper
SELINA, a fluffy young lady of 25

Notes

NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. ANL holds a collection of Henry (Harry) Tighe papers, MS 3696.

Details for description taken from the Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955, compiled and edited by Jack Bedson and Julian Croft.