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< p >A gripping collection from Rutherford Mayne, The Drone and Other Plays, brings stark rural drama to life. These plays braid ordinary lives with extraordinary pressure, revealing how fear, loyalty, and pride shape a tight-knit community. < /p >
From tense kitchen confrontations to acts of defiance against powerful threats, the plays explore how ordinary people face crisis with grit and dignity. The settings span intimate domestic rooms and the surrounding countryside, where decisions ripple through families and neighbors alike. The result is a urgent, character-driven portrait of a world on the edge.
- Vivid, edge-of-seat moments that hinge on choice under pressure
- Ruthless conflicts between neighbors, families, and those who hold power
- Sharp dialogue that captures regional voice and social tension
- Themes of survival, courage, and the moral costs of conflict
Ideal for readers who enjoy lean, powerful drama set in close-knit communities and driven by human stakes rather than spectacle.
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And he's been grumbling all morning about the way things IS going on in this house. Bread and things wasted and destroyed altogether.
Kate. Well, it's all Miss Mary's fault. I told her about this bread yesterday forenoon, and she never took any heed to me.
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Scene: The farm kitchen of John Murray. It is large and spacious, with a wide o-pen fire-place to the right. At the back is one door leading to the parlour and other rooms in the house also a large window overlooking the yard outside. To the left of this window is the door leading into the yard. Opposite to the fire-place on the left side is another door leading into Daniel Murray's workshop, and beside this door is a large dresser with crockery, &c. At the back beneath the window is a table near which Kate, the servant, a slatternly dressed girl of some thirty years of age or more, is seated. She is carefully examining some cakes of soda bread, and has a bucket beside her into which she throws the rejected pieces.
Kate. That one's stale. It would break your teeth to eat it. (She throws the cake into the bucket.) And the mice have nibbled that one. And there's another as bad. (She throws both pieces into the bucket.)
(Brown, the servant man, opens the door from yard and enters. He is elderly, and with a pessimistic expression of face, relieved somewhat by the sly humour that is in his eyes. He walks slowly to the centre of the kitchen, looks at Kate, and then turns his eyes, with a disgusted shake of the head, towards the dresser as if searching for something)
Brown. Well! Well! Pigs get fat and men get lean in this house.
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