The Red Feathers TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text FIDDLER. Isn't it time to start?<br><br>SINGER. To start? Ah yes, we start this afternoon. Well, we have had a pleasant holiday and must get to work again.<br><br>DAUGHTER (eagerly). And I am coming with you.<br><br>FIDDLER. It is settled?<br><br>DAUGHTER. Oh yes, I think so.<br><br>FIDDLER. It is the best life. (TO DAUGHTER) Play something.<br><br>[As the DAUGHTER goes to the spinet, the SINGER goes out.]<br><br>(They play. When it is over, the DAUGHTER turns round and looks at the FIDDLER, and sighs.)<br><br>DAUGHTER. That is all you want? Just you and your fiddle and the open road?<br><br>FIDDLER. It is the best life.<br><br>[The TALKER appears at the window.]<br><br>TALKER. Aha! what did I hear? Did I hear our loquacious Fiddler perorating upon Life? "Life," quoth she, with much argument and circumstantial matter; "Life," she continued, making her points singly and one by one, thus keeping the business in its true perspective; "Life is--" (Lamely) Well, what is life?<br><br>FIDDLER. When do we start, Johannes?<br><br>[The DAUGHTER goes out.]<br><br>TALKER. Are you so eager to be gone?<br><br>FIDDLER. We have been here eight days.<br><br>TALKER. Eight days! And Troy was besieged for eleven years! COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheRedFeathers.pdf
