Holiday
by Philip Barry

Name: Holiday
Brand: Philip Barry
SKU: 9780573610196
Rating: 3.86 (85 reviews)

Broadway

Highlights

Female

Male

1920sUnit Set/Multiple SettingsComedy

Synopsis

This classic romantic comedy became a beloved film starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

Free-spirited Johnny Case finds himself engaged to one girl but preferring another.

The wealthy Seton sisters are his intended: socially proper Julia and Linda, non-conforming and fresh.

Expecting his future son-in-law to toe the family line, patriarch Edward Seton realizes that Johnny cannot.

Johnny and Linda fall in love, and the two kindred souls take their “life-as-a-holiday” in the company of each other.

Press Reviews

"Barry’s Jazz Age hit... The play’s disparaging portrait of that plenty-for-some, and Johnny’s objections to money worship and the rat race, certainly speak to our era of glaring inequality and pandemic-prompted career rethinks. It’s also nice to have an opportunity to admire Barry’s prescience: Predating the 1929 stock market crash, Holiday seems prophetic in its critical attitude to go-go business mind-sets and irrationally exuberant investing."
— The Washington Post

"A classic theatrical chestnut."
— DC Theatre Scene

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Johnny Case 30, medium-tall, slight, attractive-looking, luckily not quite handsome.	—	—	30, medium-tall, slight, attractive-looking, luckily not quite handsome.
Julia Seton 28 and quite beautiful.	—	—	28 and quite beautiful.
Ned Seton 26. He is as handsome in his way as JULIA is in hers. His features are fine, a little too fine. He displaces very little, but no one minds: he is a nice boy.	male	26	26. He is as handsome in his way as JULIA is in hers. His features are fine, a little too fine. He displaces very little, but no one minds: he is a nice boy.
Susan 30, smart and attractive.	—	—	30, smart and attractive.
Nick Potter About 34, with an attractive, amusing face.	—	—	About 34, with an attractive, amusing face.
Edward Seton 58, large, nervous, distinguished.	—	—	58, large, nervous, distinguished.
Laura SETON's wife, 32, a shade taller than SETON, with a rather handsome, rather disagreeable face. She is as smartly dressed as a poor figure will allow.	female	—	SETON's wife, 32, a shade taller than SETON, with a rather handsome, rather disagreeable face. She is as smartly dressed as a poor figure will allow.
Seton Cram 36, somewhat bald, inclined to a waistline, but well turned out.	—	—	36, somewhat bald, inclined to a waistline, but well turned out.
Henry 50, of pleasant appearance and manner.	—	—	50, of pleasant appearance and manner.
Charles A younger man-servant.	—	—	A younger man-servant.
Delia A housemaid of about 35.	—	—	A housemaid of about 35.
Linda Seton 27, looks about 22. She is slim, rather boyish, exceedingly fresh. She is smart and pretty, but beside JULIA's grace and beauty, she seems a trifle gauche, and almost plain.	female	—	27, looks about 22. She is slim, rather boyish, exceedingly fresh. She is smart and pretty, but beside JULIA's grace and beauty, she seems a trifle gauche, and almost plain.