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Title: Lucky Pehr

Author: August Strindberg

Translator: Velma Swanston Howard

Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8510]
Posting Date: August 8, 2009

Language: English

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LUCKY PEHR

[A Drama in Five Acts]

By August Strindberg

Author Of "Easter," Etc.

Translated By Velma Swanston Howard

Authorized Edition

CHARACTERS

OLD MAN IN THE TOWER.
PEHR.
LISA.
FAIRY.
ELF.
RATS [NILLA AND NISSE].
BUTLER.
ASSESSOR.
PETITIONER.
FIRST FRIEND.
SECOND FRIEND.
A WOMAN.
PILLORY.
STATUE.
WAGONMAKER.
SHOEMAKER.
CHIROPODIST.
STREET-PAVER.
RELATIVE.
BURGOMASTER.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
CHAMBERLAIN OF THE CALIPH.
AMEER.
COURT HISTORIAN.
COURT MULLAH.
GRAND VIZIER.
POET LAUREATE.
BRIDE.
SINGER.
DEATH.
WISE MAN.
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW.
SAINT LAURENCE.
BROOM.
PALL.
A VOICE.

Townspeople, Dancers, Viziers, Courtiers,
Court Attendants, etc.

LUCKY PEHR

[Allegorical play in Five Acts]

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

ACT I.--Room in a Church Tower.

ACT II.--[a] Forest--[b] Rich Man's Banquet Hall.

ACT III.-Public Square and Town Hall.

ACT IV.--[a] Caliph's Palace--[b] Seashore.

ACT V.--Country Church [Interior].

TIME: Middle Ages.

ACT ONE

SCENE: A Room in the Church Tower.

Window shutters at back wide open, starlit sky is seen through windows.
Background: Snow covered house-roofs; gable windows in the distance
brilliantly illuminated. In room an old chair, a fire-pan and a picture
of the Virgin, with a lighted candle before it. Room is divided by
posts--two in centre thick enough to conceal an adult.

Chant, in unison, from the church below:

A Solis ortus cardine
Et usque terrae limitem
Christum canamus principem
Natum Maria Virgini.

[Old Man comes up tower steps and enters