title: Night of the Living Dead: A Play in Three Acts
author:  John F. Carroll 
description: John F. Carroll is a professional voice and stage actor, director and writer. John is founding artistic director of Weird City Theatre in Austin, Texas and has written and produced several works including The Cask of Amontillado, Curse of the House of Usher, and Nosferatu. John can also be seen as horror host, Danvers, on Demented Features and lends his voice to the travel series, The Macabre Tourist. JohnFCarroll.com
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  # A Collier's Friday Night
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### D. H. Lawrence
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  ACT I
  
  
  ACT II
  
  
  ACT III
  
  
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  This eBook was produced by: Don Lainson dlainson@sympatico.ca
  
  
  A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
  
  
  
  
  
  CHARACTERS
  
  
  MRS LAMBERT
  
  
  LAMBERT
  
  
  NELLIE LAMBERT
  
  
  ERNEST LAMBERT
  
  
  MAGGIE PEARSON
  
  
  GERTIE COOMBER
  
  
  BEATRICE WYLD
  
  
  BARKER
  
  
  CARLIN
  
  
  The action of the play takes place in the kitchen of the Lamberts'
  
  
  house.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## ACT I
  
  
  The kitchen or living-room of a working-man's house. At the back the
  
  
  fireplace, with a large fire burning. On the left, on the oven side of
  
  
  the stove, a WOMAN of some fifty-five years sits in a wooden
  
  
  rocking-chair, reading. Behind her and above her, in the recess made by
  
  
  the fireplace, four shelves of books, the shelf- covers being of green
  
  
  serge, with woollen ball fringe, and the books being ill-assorted
  
  
  school books, with an edition of Lessing,