Contents

Acknowledgements

Pre-Show Announcement

OVERTURE The Country Wife

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Act One
The Wild Duck

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Act Two Sea How They Run

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Act Three Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight

Twenty-Nine

Act Four An American in Paris

Thirty

Thirty-One

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Three

Thirty-Four

Thirty-Five

Thirty-Six

Thirty-Seven

Curtain

Dramatis Personae

A Short Glossary