ACT I: Twilight
ACT II: Midnight
ACT III: Daybreak
Characters
Old Karvan, retired.
John Karvan, his nephew, the present incumbent at the pharmacy.
Anna, his wife.
Julia, Anna’s sister.
Johnny, Anna’s son, ten years old.
Little Jack, Julia’s son, five years old.
Mr. Hans, the old man’s son.
The Dean, brother of the old man, in charge of the parish church.
Andrew, a chemist, employed in the pharmacy.
Granny, an old woman employed in the Karvan family.
Doctor Crow, family physician.
An Officer.
A Sexton.
Fable, A notary.
The scene is laid in the garden of the Karvan estate in the town of Potsedin, a small village on the edge of the Bohmerwald.
The time is between evening and morning of St John’s day,—1874.
ACT I. Twilight
The garden. In the background an inspiring view of the Bohmerwald. The slopes are covered with a dense forest. Above the forest, on the barren crest of a conical hill, is the ruined castle of Shorfstein. The garden plot is enclosed in a picket fence, with a wicket gate at back C.
- ↑ First performance at the Municipal Theatre of Prague, November 5, 1912.
Copyright 1925.
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