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Playwright
Ellen Wood
Performance Dates
May 3, 1930
Creative Team
Director................................................................J. A. Smith
Stage Manager....................................................Horace White
Assistant Stage Managers..................................William White and Ed Ricketts
Properties Manager ............................................Grace Norris
Assistant Properties Manager.............................Carl Starkey
Electrician and Stage Carpenter ........................Robert Myers
Assistant Electrician and Stage Carpenter..........Roger Moore
Publicity and Advertising Manager......................Paul Hughes
Business Manager...............................................Linnaeus Pounds
Synopsis
Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working lawyer-husband, Carlyle, and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor, Francis Levison, after wrongfully suspecting and becoming jealous of her husband's friendship with Barbara Hare. However once abroad with Levison she realises he has no intention of marrying her, despite her having borne their illegitimate child. He deserts her, Lady Isabel is disfigured in a train accident and the child is killed. Following this Isabel is able to take the position of governess in the household of her former husband and his new wife allowing her to be close to her children but which also becomes a source of great misery. The pressure of keeping up a façade and being constantly reminded that her husband has moved on eventually physically weakens her. On her deathbed she tells all to Carlyle who forgives her.
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Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
Otterbein Theatre, Performing Arts, College Theater
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University, "East Lynne" (1930). 1907-1958 Productions. 54.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1907-1958/54