The Audition Is Over

On the bare stage of a summer theatre, Emily Haven, this week’s visiting star, is about to audition Nancy Russell, protegee of an old friend, now a professor and dramatic coach at a nearby college. The actress learns that the teacher and Nancy’s mother have fought over the girl’s career and that the audition is to determine her future. Emily is resentful of this high-handed arrangement, and in a tense scene exposes the selfishness of the two women who want to live their lives over again in the girl.