Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading)

This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book "Back At Our Selection". The Synopsis: After being a shy bachelor for a number of years, Dave (Dad Rudd's second eldest son) has finally got married. To a "Girl from Town" named "Lily White". When she first arrives at "Ruddville", she and Dave's sister Sarah get on wonderfully. But after some months, friction between the two young woman sets in, and Dave and Lily seek to have a separate house of their own on the extensive Rudd property. But Dad, though now a prosperous farmer, started out with his wife and children in a two-room settler's slab-hut, and has a notion ... exacerbated by tightfistedness ... that all young folk should start out their married life like that and work their way up. So he finds, demolishes, carts, and re-erects a forty-year-old abandoned shack for his son and daughter-in-law. They acquiesce to accepting it, and in time even become rather contented there. But soon, Dave's mother-in-law arrives for a visit, and cranky old Dad Rudd finally meets his nemesis. - Summary by Son of the Exiles

Cast list:

Dad Rudd, Australian farmer - Patriarch of the Rudd clan: Son of the Exiles

Mother Rudd, wife of Dad Rudd: TJ Burns

Dave Rudd, son of Dad Rudd: Tomas Peter

Sarah Rudd, daughter of Dad Rudd: Linda Olsen Fitak

Lily White, newly married to Dave: Devorah Allen

Lily’s Mother - Dave's mother-in-law: Sonia

Joe Rudd, son of Dad Rudd: Nemo

Bill Rudd, son of Dad Rudd: Foon

Barty Rudd, son of Dad Rudd: Peter Musgrove

Jimmy Regan - Neighbour to the Rudds: ToddHW

Young Regan - Neighbour to the Rudds: Zoe Trang

Willie Wiley - Orphan boy adopted by one of Dad's neighbours: Foon

Mary Murphy - Daughter of one of Dad's neighbours: Leanne Yau

The Parson: Larry Wilson

Mrs Walker: Sandra Schmit

Building Contractor: Larry Wilson

Narrator: Beth Thomas

This project was finished during the March Challenge with the precious help of the following six volunteer editors (thank you all) :

Bhavya

Campbell Schelp

Chuck Williamson

JayS

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Maria Kasper