8th July: Two Graham Greene Short Plays

 

As we will be a small group this month, we will read 2 short plays by Graham Greene.

 

Yes and No

Yes and No is a short play consisting of a conversation between a fictional, unnamed Play Director and a fictional, unnamed Actor. The Actor's only lines, as the Director discusses the play script, are the words "Yes" or "No". Greene wrote the play following a dream; it was inspired by his observations of interactions between Sir John Gielgud, director, and Sir Ralph Richardson, actor, during rehearsals for the original 1959 production of Greene's The Complaisant Lover. 

 

For Whom the Bell Chimes

For Whom the Bell Chimes is a three-act comedy farce set in a one-room, studio apartment. Each act starts with the chime of the doorbell and the entrance of a new character and farce in the room. 

 

These two plays have been performed together in the West End - but in the 60s I think!