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Fifth of July
by Lanford Wilson
2004-2005 Season -
Spring Production
April 1, 2, 3 and
April 8, 9, 10
View Photos from the production
Play Description
As worded in the 2003-2004 Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Catalogue
of Plays:
Comedy/Drama. Presented by New York's famed Circle
Repertory Company, this brilliant, enthralling play has been hailed as
a major work by one of our theatre's most important and celebrated writers.
Alternately funny and moving, it deals with a group of former student
activists and the changes that have been wrought in their lives and attitudes
in the years since leaving college.
"This is one of the most incredibly well-written, beautifully acted,
profound and moving and often hilarious plays it has ever been my privilege
to see in the American theater."-NY Daily News. "Few contemporary
playwrights are as craftsmanlike and humane, or as wise as Lanford Wilson.
There aren't many plays to see that are as interesting and absorbing and
feeling and funny as this."-Cue Magazine. "The characters are
mostly flamboyant, their dialogue crackles with laugh-inducing lines and
we find ourselves dazzled by Wilson's virtuoso writing."-Hollywood
Reporter.
THE STORY: The scene is a sprawling farmhouse in rural
Missouri, which is home to Ken, a legless Vietnam veteran, and his lover,
Jed, a horticulturist. They are visited by Ken's sister, June, and her
teenage daughter, and by Gwen and John-the former a hard-drinking, pill-popping
heiress who aspires to be a rock star, the latter her wary-eyed husband
and manager. All are old friends from college days, and former activists
who agitated for what they hoped would be a better world.
The action centers on Gwen's offer to buy the farm, which she plans to
convert into a recording center, and on Ken's Aunt Sally, who has come
to the family homestead to scatter the ashes of her late husband. Their
talk, as the play progresses, is sharp and funny and, in the final essence,
deeply revealing of lost hopes and dreams and of the bitterness that must
be fought back if one is to perceive the good that life can offer.
CAST: 4 men, 4 women.
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