Where is he?

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

"Where is He?" Is the question troubling the simple mind of the devout chapel-going widow of an agnostic miner, who has just lost his life in a pit accident and lies in his coffin in a room adjoining the scene of this depressing little play. All of the widow's religious teaching from the pulpit leads her, and the deacon of her chapel, to believe that the deceased, in spite of his virtues as a man, a husband and a father, must be suffering in hell he punishment of his refusal of a creed. The poor woman defends his memory as best she may, in the course of a characteristic argument over a proposed prayer-meeting to be held in sympathy with her and her children. But she is getting the worst of it when the news comes that the poor fellow's death was due to his deliberate self-sacrifice of [on] behalf of a fellow-workman; whereupon the Pastor sensibly ends the discussion with the quotation "Greater love hath no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends." Didactic rather than dramatic; but sound if heavy-hand in its teaching [...]

Researcher's Summary:

A performance was also given at the Royal Court in January 1917 by Annie Hornimann's company. 'It was so much like life that half of it was inaudible from the dress circle' (unidentified newspaper article, Court Theatre records, VAM)