The Complete Plays of J. M. Barrie - 30 Titles in One Edition. Джеймс Барри

      Ibsen’s Ghost

       Table of Contents

      CAST

      GEORGE TESMAN (an idiot)

      THEA (his wife for the present)

      PETER TERENCE (her Grandpapa)

      DELIA TERENCE (Peter’s doll)

      Scene: The room in George’s house where rubbish is shot.

      Note: Peter uses the Gosse’s translation and the other characters the Archers.

      Scene as in Hedda Gabler.

      IBSEN’S GHOST

      (GEORGE sits writing at desk R. TIA is at fireplace L.I. burning letters. She is very mournful, kisses letters, etc.)

      GEORGE: Do you know, dear, I think I shall be able to make something of poor Eylbert Lovborg’s notes after all. There is no title, cast list or note in TH. Then I will publish the book as my own, and it may bring me fame. Just think of that now, Hedda!

      TIA: I wish you would remember that my name is Tia.

      GEORGE: I mean Tia, I married you so soon after Hedda shot herself, that I mix you up still. Tia, how many T’s in ‘tentative’.

      TIA (indifferently): Four.

      GEORGE: And how many z’s in ‘influenza’?

      TIA: What does that matter, you take it all the same.

      GEORGE: Does ‘civil’ begin with ‘s’?

      TIA: Don’t know, write polite.

      GEORGE: I will Hedda, I mean Tia, and is there a K in Christianity.

      TIA: There is nothing in Christianity.

      GEORGE: Tia, I think I had better leave the spelling to my secretary, where is he now?

      TIA: He is upstairs packing his bag.

      GEORGE: Think of that now, Hedda. (rises) He is leaving me, and he is the sixth secretary I have engaged during the last month — I wonder why they all desert me thus?

      (comes to her)

      TIA: Dear simple George, can he not guess.

      GEORGE: And, oh! I say Tia what are you doing there?

      TIA (wringing her hands): Burning the letters you wrote me before our marriage, George.

      GEORGE: There now! and Tia what is inside that parcel you have been making up all the morning?

      TIA: