JOHN P MARQUAND |
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Plays by John P Marquand |
Late George Apley, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyceum Theatre | 1944 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1946 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22500 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 3 acts and epilogue Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by George S Kaufman and John P Marquand. Based on Marquand's novel of the same name | |||||
Synopsis: | The Apleys and their in-laws furnish delightful and incisive comedy and drama against which we see George's two children, a young man and a young woman, each of whom strives heroically to break away from the shackles of family and tradition: Eleanor manages to do so and makes a satisfactory life for herself, while John, who falls in love with a young woman who had the bad taste not even to be born in Boston, is crushed by his father and all his father stands for | |||||
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