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Plays by Reynolds Price |
August Snow | ||
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| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - January, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28507 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | The first in the poetic trilogy, New Music, which chronicles the Avery family and their friends through 37 years in a North Carolina town. Elegant melancholy follows these people as they live through the depression, WWII and Vietnam, and a few private war | |||||
Synopsis: | In August of 1937, in a small town in eastern North Carolina, we meet the Avery family. Roma Avery is the widowed matriarch who still maintains a hold on hèr recently married son, Neal. He and his wife, Taw, a former school teacher, rent a room from their friend, Genevieve Slappy, while Porter Farwell, Neal's boyhood friend, now lives in Romas house. Both Neal and Porter work at the family store, Avery's Clothing. After the first year of marriage, which has seen them drift apart, Taw gives Neal an ultimatum. He must recommit with heart and soul to his marriage vows by ending the long nights he spends out drinking with Porter. He has until supper to abide by her wishes or she will leave him. Neal begins to see life as a grown up, complete with the disappointments he's tried to avoid, and ultimately knows that Taw is the best thing to happen to him. He returns, quietly renewing his love. | |||||
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Better Days | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28508 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of New Music Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | takes place in 1974, the day of Roma Avery's funeral. Neal and Taw have moved to Roma's house to care for her in her final illness. Porter has come home on leave from the Navy. Neal and Taw's son, Cody, now a captain in the Marines serving in Vietnam, has also returned on leave for his grandmother's burial. In the course of a day, all the characters make plans for themselves - and for others - as they are visited by Wayne's father, once sweet on Roma, and by Roma's old lover, Fontaine, a man Neal had heard about and never met and about whom he had only just told Cody. Grief gives way to humorous surprise and renewed bonds as Cody finds himself in the middle of a bottle spin to see who gets Roma's house - a place so full of memory some want to stay forever, some want to leave it behind as soon as the bottle stops spinning. With Vietnam calling Cody, Neal and Taw must contend with a new future, more hopeful that they can give their son, if he returns, better days ahead. | |||||
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Early Dark | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Full Moon and other plays", Hern, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28509 | |||
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Full Moon | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Full Moon and other plays", Hern, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28510 | |||
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Night Dance | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "New Music", Hern, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28511 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | part of New Music Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | chronicles the Avery family and their friends through 37 years in a North Carolina Town | |||||
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Private Contentment | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Full Moon and other plays", Hern, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28512 | |||
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