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Last Looks
Author(s):
Grace Mckeaney
After more than thirty years in their comfortable summer home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Ray and Delia Morrow are preparing to sell the house and move to New Mexico. They summon their grown children to sort out the sharing of a lifetime's accumulation of possessions, but their return brings an uncomfortable juxtaposition of cherished memories and a sometimes harsh present. Son Guy, a hard-driving commodities broker now living in Chicago, is divorced and drinking more than he should; daughter Val, also divorced and raising two children, laments her failed marriage; while Clair, the egghead of the family, puts career ahead of anything else. And there is Howard, a now successful local businessman who cannot shake his self-consciousness despite his material possessions and whose adoration of Val has never dimmed. While old rancors and joys are revived, so are present needs and frustrations, but always with humor, compassion and a leavening irony. And, in the end, there is also a sense of unity and understanding--the inescapable knowledge that while the bric-a-brac in the attic can be disposed of, a family, for better or worse, is forever.
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| Genre(s): | Comedy
Drama
| | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 7 | | Male Characters: | 3 | | Female Characters: | 4 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $50 per performance
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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