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Three Generations in a Court of Domestic Relations

from Ruth Draper and Her Company of Characters: More Selected Monologues by Ruth Draper

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With its three characters - a grandmother, her daughter and her granddaughter - "Three Generations" is one of only two sketches Draper acknowledged as having been based on real people. (Draper knew a family court judge and once sat in on a session in his courtroom.) The three are in court seeking resolution of a domestic dispute. The 19-year-old granddaughter, who is the sole support of her sickly mother and aged grandmother, wants to quit her job as a stenographer, marry her boyfriend and move out West, leaving her mother and grandmother in a home for the aged and infirm. Not surprisingly, they do not support the plan. Audiences were wowed by Draper's simple use of a shawl to clearly differentiate the characters: for the grandmother, she pulled it tight around her face; to play the daughter, Draper let the shawl fall to her shoulders, with one part wrapped under a paralyzed arm; for Rosie, the young girl, she dropped the shawl entirely. First performed before 1920.

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from Ruth Draper and Her Company of Characters: More Selected Monologues, released July 18, 2020

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Ruth Draper was the undisputed queen of the one-woman theater in the 20th century. Throughout nearly forty years as a professional performer, Draper filled theaters all over the world through her unique ability to transform herself into a vast array of characters. Draper composed more than fifty monologues over the course of her career, seventeen of which are available here. ... more

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