Five Finger Exercise: A PlayDrama / 3m, 2f / Comp. Int. The first stage success from the author of Equus and Amadeus, this taut family drama centers on a young German student who, coming to England to tutor the daughter of well-to-do family is drawn into the various individual dramas of these fractured, isolated people. "A powerful and absorbing drama." - New York Post |
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armchair ashtray bedroom bench Brahms chair cigarette CLIVE crossing CLIVE moving CLIVE rising CLIVE sitting closes the door coffee coffee-table course crosses and exits dear dessert spoon downstage end drink father FIVE FINGER EXERCISE french windows front door Gas-fire girl goes Gramophone needle Gramophone record hall door Harrington Hepcat Jou-Jou kitchen door living-room LOUISE crossing LOUISE enters LOUISE exits LOUISE moving LOUISE putting LOUISE rising LOUISE turning mean morning mother napkin PAMELA enters PAMELA moving PAMELA rising pauses PETER SHAFFER petit fours picks rises and crosses rises and moves saucer SCENE schoolroom stairs scrambled eggs scrim sideboard Snap sofa sorry spectacles spoon STANLEY moving STANLEY rising Stanley's Stanley's cup stares suppose switches takes talk tell There's things tray upstage end voice wall-bracket WALTER enters WALTER exits WALTER looks WALTER rising WALTER smiling Walter's room What's the matter