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Illa
Since: Jan, 2013
1st Aug, 2023 05:44:09 AM
A play version (https://www.rusc.com/old-time-radio/Never-Come-Monday.aspx?id=61883)
of "Never Come Monday" from Sam Small Flies Again: The Amazing Adventures of The Flying Yorkshireman (https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20191059) by Eric Knight?
ArtsyDreamer
Since: Apr, 2021
21st Sep, 2023 09:19:34 PM
That looks like the one! Thanks so much!
(SOLVED) A play about a town where Sunday repeated over and over again Literature
When I was in… I think 8th grade, I was homeschooled with the A Beka curriculum, and it came with a literature book that I enjoyed leafing through- it contained many excerpts from such classics as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Adrift on an Ice-pan” and “Mrs. Ching”, but one I remember in particular that I haven’t been able to find anywhere was a transcript for a play
In the play, there’s a little town where everyone is written with a distinct dialect- I seem to remember them having Irish accents or something along those lines? The play opens with a man doing his job of knocking on everyone’s windows to wake them up or something like that, and he’s telling everyone that he has a strong feeling it’s Sunday again- yesterday was Sunday, but he can’t shake the feeling that somehow Sunday is repeating itself
The town ends up deciding to go along with it and do all the things they would normally do on a Sunday- one thing I remember is that the pastor at the local church decides to preach the same sermon he did yesterday, since it’s the same day all over again anyway
The results are quite positive- one delighted woman says that she was able to understand the sermon better the second time around, and after a few days or so of reliving the same Sunday, a big strong man shows everyone how much stronger he’s gotten from all these days of being able to have a day of rest instead of working himself to the bone, and he demonstrates this by bending a penny with only his two fingers
This goes on for a while, until finally the government gets involved for some reason that I forget- the governor or king or whoever is fed up with all this nonsense, and he consults some sort of calendar or something to prove to everyone that time has in fact passed (I think I remember him relaying the information by telephone, but I’m not sure) and he declares what day it is, but then someone points out what day it will be tomorrow… and the town happily declares “It’ll be Sunday!” And that’s about where the play ends
Nothing I search turns up any results, and I can’t remember the title or character names (though I feel like the man knocking on windows was named Cam or Callum or something similar?) and while I was able to find a similar book on the Internet Archive with many of the excerpts I remember, the play wasn’t in there, so maybe I had a different edition? I’d love to find that play again, it was quite memorable
Edited by ArtsyDreamer