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SYNOPSIS The play takes place at Green Hills Farm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania on a spring day in the late 1960's, and at various locales in Pearl's memory, representing the past from 1900 up to the "present."
ACT 1 SCENE 1 The garden at Green Hills Farm. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck SCENES 2 & 3 The kitchen of the Sydenstricker home in Chinkiang. Wang Amah & Carie Stulting Sydenstricker SCENE 4 The back porch of the Stulting family home in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Young Pearl, Age 8 SCENE 5 The veranda of the Stulting family home. Carie SCENE 6 A hall in the imperial palace, The Forbidden City, Peking (Beijing). Dowager Empress, Tz'u-hsi SCENE 7 The parlor of the Sydenstricker home in Chinkiang. Carie SCENE 8 A street in front of The Door of Hope in Shanghai. Peony SCENE 9 A hallway at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Pearl SCENE 10 A parlor at Randolph-Macon. Pearl SCENE 11 A veranda at a mountain resort in Kuling. Pearl SCENE 12 The kitchen of the Sydenstricker home in Chinkiang. Carie SCENE 13 Emmaline Bull's dining room in Nanking. Emmaline Bull SCENE 14 The staircase of the Buck home in Nanking.Pearl SCENE 15 The kitchen of the Sydenstricker home in Chinkiang. Wang Amah & Carie SCENE 16 A walled cemetery in Chinkiang. Pearl
There will be one 15 minute intermission.
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ACT 2
SCENE 1 The garden at Green Hills Farm. Pearl SCENE 2 The attic of the Buck home in Nanking. Pearl SCENE 3 The Sydenstricker home in Chinkiang. Carie SCENE 4 An adoption agency in Ithaca, New York. Pearl SCENE 5 The dining room of the Buck home in Nanking. Pearl SCENE 6 Mrs. Lu's mud hut. Mrs. Lu & Pearl SCENES 7 & 8 The parlor of the Buck home in Nanking. Pearl SCENE 9 A room at the Vineland Institute in New Jersey. Pearl SCENE 10 A conference room at the John Day Company in New York City. Dick Walsh SCENE 11 The dining car of a train in the Chinese country side. Pearl SCENE 12 A grave in the Lu Shan Mountains. Pearl SCENE 13 An office at the Presbyterian Overseas Mission Board. Reverend Courtenay Fenn SCENE 14 The parlor of the Buck home in Nanking. Pearl SCENE 15 A hotel suite in Reno, Nevada. Mrs. Kolak, "The Duchess" SCENE 16 The grounds of an estate in Bucks County. Pearl SCENE 17 A hospital room in Pennsylvania. Pearl SCENE 18 A dining room at the White House in Washington, D.C. Eleanor Roosevelt SCENE 19 The garden at Green Hills Farm. Pearl SCENE 20 The kitchen of the Sydenstricker home in Chinkiang. Wang Amah
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