Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822209539
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The plot revolves around the sexual assault of a teenage girl and an unrelated murder trial in the town of Eldritch, exploring a community's reaction to rape, lies and murder.
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374521689
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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"Mr. Wilson handles the collage technique so beautifully that we leave convinced no other method would have served half so well. This reviewer liked Rimers for its fluidity, for its language, for its almost musical sense of pattern."--The New York Times The mystery is, who he is, who murdered him and what were the circumstances? And to solve it, Wilson looks at the outsides and insides of his tiny, Middle Western town. He looks at a middle-aging woman who falls in love with the young man who comes to work in her café. He looks at a coarse, nasty woman mistreating her senile mother, who is obsessed with visions of Eldritch being evil and headed for blood-spilling. He looks at a tender relationship between a young man a dreamy, crippled girl. But Wilson sees far more than this. He is grasping the very fabric of Bible Belt America, with its catchword morality (“virgin,” “God-fearing”) and its capability for the vicious. He senses the rhythm of its life and the cruelty it can impose. He understands the speech patterns of its loveless gossips, its sex-hungry boys, its compassionless preachers, its car-conscious blondes. In the end his portrait of Eldritch is full length, and the truth of its revelations will be pondered long after the stage lights have dimmed and the play has ended.
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822216278
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Length: 2 acts.
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217671
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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THE STORY: When murder roars through a small Missouri town, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mys
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216308
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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THE STORY: Liz Barnard is an anthropologist studying West Coast gangs for behavior similar to African tribes. Her son, Don, is a homosexual Episcopal minister whose parishioners are poor and many sick with AIDS. Liz's daughter, Barbara, is a gifted
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216247
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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THE STORY: The scene is a small mission church in a remote part of New Mexico, where a middle-aged college professor and his lovely young wife detour unexpectedly after the highway is closed because of a possible accident at a nearby nuclear faci
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822210115
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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THE STORY: Two young suburban couples, friends of long standing, are suddenly aware of strains and pressures that have inexorably come into their lives. Adultery is one of these--a fact for one of the wives, an imminent possibility for one of the husbands--
Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521668071
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.
