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The Roads to Home - Three Inter-related One-act Plays - A Nightingale & The Dearest of Friends & Spring Dance
9 Male, 5 Female
Horton Foote Price: $8.00
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 - M1,F3
In the 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 - M2,F2
In 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 - M3,F1
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