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Robert Lowell
MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUX
CHARACTERS
(In order of appearance)
ROBIN
Boy (his brother)
FERRYMAN
FIRST BARBER
TAVERN KEEPER
MAN WITH PEWTER MUG
CLERGYMAN
PROSTITUTE •
MAN WITH MASK
MAN IN PERIWIG
SECOND BARBER
WATCHMAN
FIRST INDIAN
SECOND INDIAN
MAJOR MOLINEUX
CITIZENS OF BoSTON
THE SCENE
Boston, just before the American Revolution
(To the left of the stage,.RoBIN,
a young man barely eighteen, in a
coarse grey coat, well-worn but
carefully repaired, leather breech–
es, blue yarn stockings, and a
worn three-cornered hat. He car–
ries a heavy oak-sapling cudgel
and has a wallet slung over his
shoulder. Beside him, his brother,
a
Boy
of ten or twelve, dressed in
the same respectable but some–
what rustic manner. On the far
left of the stage, the triangular
prow of a dory; beside it, a huge
FERRYMAN
holding an upright
oar. He has a white curling beard.
His dress, although eighteenth–
century, half suggests that he is
Charon. Lined across the stage
and in the style of a primitive
New England sampler, are dimly
seen five miniature houses: a
barber shop, a tavern, a white
church, a shabby brick house
with a glass bay window, and
a pillared mansion, an official's
house, on its cornice the golden
lion and unicorn of England. The
houses are miniature, but their
doors are mansize. Only
ROBIN,
his brother, and the
FERRYMAN
are lit up.)