Characters
- Parker Ballantine: a theater critic in his late 30s or early 40s.
- Angela Ballantine: Parker’s second wife; a blonde of twenty-seven or twenty-eight.
- John Ballantine: twelve years old, Parker’s son with his first wife Ivy.
- Dion Kapakos: twenty-nine or thirty, the director of Angela’s new play.
- Essie: the Ballantine’s black maid.
- Charlotte Orr: Angela’s mother.
- Ivy London: Parker’s first wife, Mother of John. In her mid-to-late thirties.
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