Trelawny of The "Wells": A Comedietta in Four Acts

A young performer in a small popular theatre prepares to abandon the stage after becoming engaged to a gentleman from a prominent household, prompting a subdued farewell and a short stay with his family to adjust to respectable society. The play alternates between lively backstage scenes—rehearsals, costumes, company camaraderie—and polished drawing-room situations that expose social awkwardness, class prejudices, romantic misunderstandings, and the tension between artistic impulse and domestic convention, resolving through compromise and a tentative reconciliation of theatrical identity with social expectation.