The Farmer's Daughter - Acting Edition

by F. Andrew Leslie, from the screenplay by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr

• ISBN13: 9780822203865
• ISBN10: 0822203863
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1962-10-26
• Publisher: DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE INC

Summary

THE STORY: Katrin Holstrom, in the big city to study nursing, is obliged for financial reasons to take a temporary position as maid in the home of the wealthy and politically powerful Morleys. Mrs. Morley and her son Glenn being political leaders, their home is a gathering place for newspaper people, candidates and party regulars and Katrin, with her encyclopedic knowledge of rural politics, is fascinated by the inside goings-on. While serving coffee, however, she also expresses her opinions on people and policies, and soon it is clear that her ideas of how to run a political organization are somewhat at variance with those of her employers. The upshot, after a perfectly logical if uproarious course of events, is that Katrin becomes the candidate of the opposition party-and the battle lines are drawn. But politics can be dirty as well as exhilarating and the introduction of a trumped-up scandal involving Katrin forces her to give up her campaign for the good of the party. It also brings Glenn to her defense, and in the fast-moving climax of the play he proves the falsity of the charges; exposes the other candidate for the bigot he is; and persuades Katrin that if she can't go to Washington one way she should go another-as his wife.