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Cairn Stones, The
Author(s):
Anne V. Mcgravie
The Cairn Stones is about love and longing, about regrets for the past and some hope for the future; it's about age and how it limits only those who would be limited by it. "In her strong but always lyrically written memory play [McGravie]…hints at the way the seeds of one's character and passions are planted in youth and tend to grow stronger in one's later years. Based loosely on events of her own life, particularly childhood memories of summers spent with her mother's family on a remote island off the western coast of Ireland, McGravie…has created a play in which the youthful and aging incarnations of three characters continually shadow each other. The teenage Brighid is a rebellious, relatively well-to-do girl, passionately attached to her wild island culture. Her neighbor, Shelagh, is poorer and restless in another way—hell-bent on leaving for America. Shelagh loves Brighid's half-brother, Michael, but he cannot find it in himself to leave the island. So when she decides to make the trans-Atlantic journey she enlists his best friend, Joe, who Brighid happens to love." (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times) Fifty years later and now a widow, Shelagh returns from Chicago. She has never forgotton—or forgiven?—Michael. "McGravie has interwoven the past and present, and the conflicting cultures and personalities of her characters, with great skill." (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times). McGravie infuses her play with a sense of déjá vu—a knowledge of how the past is viewed when it begins to retreat fast, moving farther and farther from reach.
One integrated int./ext. set.
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | 87 minutes | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 7 | | Male Characters: | 2 | | Female Characters: | 5 | | Androgynous Characters: | 0 | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: |
$60.00 /per performance
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatic Publishing
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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