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Keep Smiling Through
Lisa Evans
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Keep Smiling Through
Lisa Evans
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Keswick, 1940 ā Britain is at war with Germany. Maggie's life is under invasion too: Gran knitting for England, evacuee lodgers, helping with the war effort ā and now a fund-raising concert party! Husband Rob is due home on RAF leave and best friend Peg has just learnt that she's pregnant ā but no such luck for Maggie and Robā¦ Nostalgia, romance, laughter and tears all feature in this comedy world premiĆØre, full of live music, songs and dance from the war years.
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Act Two
Song: āBe Like The Kettle And Singā
SCENE ONE
Next day. Wednesday afternoon.
They are cleaning up the fire damage, and more importantly water damage, with mops and buckets, brushes and cloths. Lines are strung across the room with donated clothes drying on them. Present are PEG, HILDA, PERCE, MAGGIE ā with a bruise on her face ā ROB, ALEC, LEONORE, and GRAN. ROB helps LEONORE move the piano so he can mop behind it. She smiles at him. He has a knack of making people feel at ease. Four evacuees, all wearing sooty face decoration, are playing cowboys and indians.
ROB: Is here okay? Careful, donāt hurt your back. Let me do it. Ok?
LEONORE: Thank you.
ROB: It looks odd seeing it down here.
LEONORE: You donāt mind?
ROB: Pianos donāt mean anything if thereās nobody playing them.
LEONORE: Thank goodness it is not burned.
PEG: Oh yes, thank goodness for that. As long as the Swanky Rodents can have their piano lessons everythingās all right with the world.
ROB imitates her, sending her up. She grins.
Oh shut up.
Where do you want these putting Maggie?
MAGGIE: Are they wet?
PEG: Everything in the back roomās wet.
MAGGIE: Hang them up with the rest. I suppose theyāll dry out eventually.
GRAN, knitting, starts to sing āHang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Lineā.
PEG: The fire would have probably gone out in the snow but oh no, they had to hose fifty million gallons in here as well.
PERCE: (Up a stepladder fixing up drying lines.) Sorry.
PEG: Donāt even start with sorry.
MAGGIE: Cocktails, I ask you.
PEG: What were you thinking?
PERCE: I wanted to impress her.
PEG: Who?
PERCE: Jean.
PEG: Dear God.
PERCE: Thought sheād see me like a commando. You know...
He mimes Lighting the Molotov cocktail, throwing it and ducking.
Cover!
PEG: You idiot.
PERCE: I werenāt aiming at the hall. That were an accident.
PEG: Youāre an accident.
PERCE: Iāve got a new idea now. For the concert party.
PEG: Is it flammable?
PERCE: I hope not.
PERCE checks his pockets. MAGGIE smiles, heās told her about his magic tricks. Thereās a crash off.
Peg: Oh my god. Sidney!
PEG exits to the back.
MAGGIE: (To the evacuees.) And you lot. Out of here. Come along, youāre not helping.
MAGGIE shoos the evacuees off. They run round her.
In the name ofā¦where the hell is Lorna Pepper when thereās work to be done?
LEONORE: She said sheād be here.
ROB gets onto his mop and rounds them up and, firing an imaginary gun, chases them out. He smiles over at MAGGIE. She smiles back but thereās distance between them.
ALEC: I see war paint is in fashion for both cowboys and Indians.
ROB: Any excuse to get really filthy.
LEONORE: Mrs Pepper is putting on her boots when I leave the house.
MAGGIE: Well I wonāt hold my breath. How does it sound? Has water got into it?
LEONORE: So you do care about it after all?
MAGGIE: Itās the only heirloom Iāve got. Apart from Gran of course. Must count for something I suppose.
LEONORE: Well, of course. It belonged to your mother who loved it.
MAGGIE: Oh yes, she loved that piano all right. OK everyone, we need to keep this end clear for the soup and sandwiches. Thereās still a war on and stomachsāll still rumble come dinnertime.
MAGGIE and LEONORE move tables together.
ALEC: Sheās amazing, your Maggie, never stops.
ROB: Yeah Iād noticed. Iād quite like her to actually. Itās not long before Iām due back.
ALEC: I envy you.
ROB: What, me wife?
ALE...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Characters
- Act One
- Act Two
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APA 6 Citation
Evans, L. (2012). Keep Smiling Through (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1980798/keep-smiling-through-pdf (Original work published 2012)
Chicago Citation
Evans, Lisa. (2012) 2012. Keep Smiling Through. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.perlego.com/book/1980798/keep-smiling-through-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Evans, L. (2012) Keep Smiling Through. 1st edn. Bloomsbury Publishing. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1980798/keep-smiling-through-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Evans, Lisa. Keep Smiling Through. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.