Dramatisation of Last Leaf

“ The Last Leaf”
by O . Henry
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“The Last Leaf”
by O. Henry
adapted to audio script by Don Kisner
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CHARACTERS
JOHNSY SUE DOCTOR MR. BEHRMAN NARRATOR

SCENE ONE
NARRATOR: In New York City, there's a small district just west of Washington Square, where the narrow, irregular streets have run crazy and broken themselves into short strips called places. It's an ancient, residential community where many of the beautiful, old, brick houses date back to the 1820's, when an epidemic forced people from the city to what was then a rural suburban village. Now, in the final year of the nineteenth century, we find clusters of colorful restaurants, theaters, and shops. People interested in the creative lifestyle were attracted by the quaint, continental atmosphere, and so, to this village of the big city, they've come: the artists, the actors, the musicians, the dancers, the writers, hunting for nirth windows and 18th century gables and Dutch attics and low rents. [RESTAURANT SOUNDS] It's an evening in late spring, and the dinner hour finds the little Eighth Street Delmonico's busy as usual. Most of the patrons this evening, the village old-timers, blend into...