Dear Thora, Congratulations on getting the part of Doris in our forthcoming production of 'A Cream Cracker Under The Settee'.

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Thora Hird

126 Stobba Close

Edgware

London

LH5 1HE

Dear Thora

Congratulations on getting the part of Doris in our forthcoming production of ‘A Cream Cracker Under The Settee’.

This play is set in modern times, and is about an old woman called Doris, in her seventies who likes to be very clean and tidy, but because of her age, will have to move into old peoples home if she is caught cleaning. Zulema comes for home help, and Doris believes that she doesn’t do her job properly. Doris goes to prove her point, by getting down her deceased husband’s photo, but unfortunately falls and hurts her leg. She stays like that, and later in the day, she sadly dies.  

The props will include a cracked photo of Doris’s husband, Wilfred, to show that she was once not lonely and used to care for someone.

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The key themes in this play are society’s treatment of the elderly, loneliness, and segregation.

The writer is trying to show how old people, who think they are all well and fit, are not really and need a lot of care. He does this by giving Doris a fearless character and showing that your not as strong as you may seem to be to yourself

Doris is alert, and aware of her situation in life as an old person. She is in poor health and lives alone. Her dominant concern is cleaning. Doris dislikes old peoples ...

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