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    The Skin Game
    The Skin Game
    The Skin Game
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    The Skin Game

    Written by John Galsworthy

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives in the manor house where his family has lived for generations. He has a daughter, Jill, who is in her late teens; and a wife, Amy, as well as servants and retainers. He is "old money", although his finances are at a bit of low ebb. The other family is the "nouveau riche" Hornblowers, headed by the single-minded and rich industrialist Hornblower, who throws old retainers the Jackmans out of their home (much to the Squire's disgust), and who plans to surround the Hillcrist's rural estate with factories. (Summary by catrose and Wikipedia)

    Cast:
    Hillcrist: Anthony
    Amy, or Mrs H.: Amanda Friday
    Jill: April Gonzales
    Dawker: Charlotte Duckett
    Hornblower: Delmar H. Dolbier
    Charles: Chuck Williamson
    Chloe: CaprishaPage
    Rolf: Chris Marcellus
    Fellows: Aidan Brack
    Anna; Auctioneer: MJ Franck
    Mr. Jackman: TriciaG
    Mrs. Jackman: Jeannie Tirado
    First Stranger: Kristingj
    Second Stranger: Elizabeth Klett
    Narrator: SallyMc

    Editors: Charlotte Duckett & CaprishaPage

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    John Galsworthy

    John Galsworthy was a Nobel-Prize (1932) winning English dramatist, novelist, and poet born to an upper-middle class family in Surrey, England. He attended Harrow and trained as a barrister at New College, Oxford. Although called to the bar in 1890, rather than practise law, Galsworthy travelled extensively and began to write. It was as a playwright Galsworthy had his first success. His plays—like his most famous work, the series of novels comprising The Forsyte Saga—dealt primarily with class and the social issues of the day, and he was especially harsh on the class from which he himself came.

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