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American Plays Dets
Details like setting and characters
Play | Details |
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Our Town | Three acts: “Daily Life”, "Love and Marriage", "Death" Takes place in the village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire Professor Willard - gossips about the residents Editor Webb - gossips about the residents Emily Webb - Dies while giving birth Georg |
Long Day’s Journey Into Night | Actually produced three years after the author died Edmund and the rest of the Tyrone family Really an autobiographical account of the dysfunction of author's family August 1912 Father is a miserly actor Mother is a morphine addict Brother is a drun |
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O’Neill |
The Glass Menagerie | Narrated by Tom Wingfield Tom supports his mother Amanda and his crippled sister Laura Laura - takes refuge from reality in her glass animals) Jim O’Connor - Toms friend /engaged Tom brings Jim to the house as a “gentleman caller” for Laura The horn |
The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O’Neill |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Centers on a fight between two sons Gooper and Brick over the estate of their father Big Daddy Pollitt- The father/dying of cancer Brick - his friend Skipper dies and he becomes a alcholic with his wife Maggie - Brick's wife - "The cat" Maggie tells |
The Little Foxes | Set on a plantation in 1900 Three Hubbard siblings (Regina and her two brothers) Scheme to earn riches at the expense of other family members like Horse and Alexandra Horace - Regina's Husband Alexandra - Regina's daughter |