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The Roads to Home
Author(s):
Horton Foote
THE STORIES: In the first play, A NIGHTINGALE, Mabel, and Vonnie, two Houston neighbors and best friends, both refugees from small Texas towns, are forbearing and patient about the protracted and uninvited visits of Annie Long, a girlhood acquaintance of Mabel's who is slipping inexorably into insanity. As uncomfortable as she makes them, Mabel and Vonnie are more concerned with silencing Annie's vivid recounting of old scandals and the pain they caused. (1 man, 3 women). In the second play, THE DEAREST OF FRIENDS, it is several months later, and Vonnie is facing the crisis of a husband who is involved with another woman and who wants a divorce. Mabel and her husband, Jack are sympathetic to Vonnie's plight but, again, cannot bring themselves to face its disturbing implications. (2 men, 2 women). In the third play, SPRING DANCE, several years have passed, and Annie is now confined to a sanatorium. She and her fellow patients are scrupulously polite and considerate of each other and, obviously, totally divorced from reality. The asylum culture reflects the larger culture--but here the isolation is total and, sadly irreversible.(3 men, 1 woman).
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | 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: | Not Available | | Male Characters: | Not Available | | Female Characters: | Not Available | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $60 per performance when produced together; $20 each when produced individually
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Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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