"Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts" by D. H. Lawrence, is a play set in a Midlands mining village after World War I that explores the tense relationship between miners and mine owners. As the play begins, a Sunday morning gathering highlights the dissatisfaction of Willie Houghton, who believes the colliers do not understand their own potential for freedom, contrasting them with Gerald Barlow and Oliver Turton. The scene unfolds around a community grappling with social justice, individual purpose, and the stark realities of industrial life, as characters debate their roles and futures in a society defined by class divisions and the struggle for dignity.
Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
In a mining town, heated conversations ignite as workers awaken to their lack of freedom, setting them against the wealthy owners in a battle for their destinies.
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About the AuthorDavid Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels — Sons and Lovers
(1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)— were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality and use of explicit language.
David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels — Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)— were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality and use of explicit language.
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