Tons of Money


by

Will Evans and Valentine

Rover Dramawerks May 2024

Cox Playhouse Plano TX

Director Carol Rice

Set Design and Build Mike Straub

The Setting

Library of AUBREY HENRY MAITLAND ALLINGTON's house at Marlow. The room is handsomely furnished. At back c.-somewhat deeply recessed--double French windows, approached from the room by shallow steps, open to a terrace, and command a view of the river and the landscape beyond. In the recess and to the L. of the window, built into the wall, is a bookcase, and below this, in the angle of the room facing the audience, a door. At the extreme L. of the room is a low-backed arm-chair, and behind it, against the wall, a bronze statuette with an electrolier(chandelier). Below the window L.C. a large settle couch with cushions is set at an angle facing R., and immedwtely above it, and at its right end, a small, square table on which is a telephone. In the right wall of the window recess, facing the bookcase, is a low cabinet, and in the wall above it a speaking-tube. On the right of this, in the wall facing the audience, stands a grandfather's clock. On the right of the clock, right center in the back flat, are large double door, which lead to a passage from which a stairway rises to the right, and at the foot of the stairway a large leaded window. The square, stone fireplace is in the right wall, with bronze and irons ln the hearth and a fender stool against the high curb. Above it a small dinner waggon (tea cart). Right center is a gate-legged table, which at the rise of the curtain is laid for breakfast : there is a small chair behind it and one is set on its right. A winged arm-chair immediately in front of the fireplace and a smaller one facing it.

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