May 1950

The Hope River Dramatic Players

present

The Campbells Are Coming

CHARACTERS

MA BRANNIGAN who lives for her grandchildren Helen Reid

CATALPA TAPP —— the hillbilly servant Aline 'Reid

BETTY BRANNIGAN Ma’s younger granddaughter —— Noreen Turner

DICK BRANNIGAN Ma’s grandson —- Vernon O’Connor BILDAD TAPP —— Catalpa’s father Thomas Bolger

CYRUS SCUDDER who wants to marry Ma —- Grant MacLeod

JEFF SCUDDER His nephew -— -— -—- —— Brendan Reid

KAYE BRANNIGAN Ma’s elder granddaughter —- —- Mrs. Grant MacLeod

KINGSTON CAMPBELL Kaye’s fiance Wally Reid

Mrs. AUGUSTA CAMPBELL —-— His aristocratic mother Mrs. Vernon MacLean

PLACE -— The Brannigan’s summer cabin by a lake in the Ozarks.

TIME -— A Saturday morning in June.

ACT I The living room of the Brannigan cabin about ten o’clock on a June morning.

ACT II Same as Act I. Two day! later at eleven a.m. ACT III —— The same as previous acts. A few minutes later.

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