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The Keepers
Author(s):
Barbara Lebow
It is 1854. On a remote stretch of Maine coast live Captain Nathaniel Brockett and his wife, Octavia, lighthouse keepers who have had to move into the tower itself after a terrible winter storm wrecks their cottage. With them is Angeline, the young black woman raised as their daughter. Claiming that she received a head injury during the storm, Octavia begins to have attacks of delirium. Past and present merge for her as she fantasizes about the captain's lustful nature and instigates bizarre arguments with Angeline, mistaking her for a woman who died long ago. The captain tries to divert his wife with romantic tales of his adventures at sea, but her brain fever, it seems, may have other, more sinister roots. As she tries to draw the others into her suddenly realized memories, we discover how Octavia's fears have brought about her own repression as well as her apparent domination over Angeline and Nathaniel. While the captain cannot face the reality of his wife's continuing decline, Angeline can no longer suppress questions about her real mother or her heritage. Racially isolated and kept under Octavia's thumb, Angeline struggles to break free of her stifling environment. She grows stronger as Octavia weakens, but it is only upon Octavia's death that the truths she's been seeking will out, whatever the consequences.
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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: | 1 | | Female Characters: | 2 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $50 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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