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Back in the Race
Author(s):
Milan Stitt
Returning to the now ramshackle country house where he had spent his boyhood summers, Jonathan Edwards VII, a direct descendant of the famous eighteenth-century Calvinist preacher, wants to learn why his late father willed the place to the aging caretaker, Cliff, who now lives on there with his assumed daughter, a half-Indian girl named Zabrina. Sensing unanswered questions in the relationship between Cliff, who had served several generations of his family, and his father, Jonathan seeks answers, only to be met with antagonism and the threat of violence. But as he probes deeper he also confronts the disturbing truth of his forebears' often destructive singlemindedness--from those who ravaged souls in order to save them, to those who despoiled the land in search of wealth and power. In the end Jonathan and Zabrina (who may, in truth, be his half-sister) symbolically burn the Edwards family album, thereby exorcising the ghosts of the past and, at last, freeing themselves to deal with the present--and the future--as individuals in control of their own destinies.
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| Genre(s): | 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: | 3 | | Male Characters: | 2 | | Female Characters: | 1 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $40 per performance
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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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