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Winter Journey

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 6m

Clifford Odets

One of America's greatest dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife.

Winter Journey

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    2w, 6m
  • Audience
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    Adult

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One of America's greatest dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor, Frank Elgin, and Georgie, his long-suffering wife.  A searing, emotional play of love and redemption.

First published and performed in the US under the title A Country Girl, the play premiered in London in 1952 as Winter Journey, starring Michael Redgrave as Frank and Googie Withers as Georgie.

Bernie Dodd, stage director, 35

Larry, stage manager

Phil Cook, producer

Paul Unger, playwright, 30

Nancy Stoddard, an actress, 17

Frank Elgin, an actor, 50

Georgie Elgin, Frank's wife, early 30s

Ralph, Frank's dresser

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (1906-63) was born in Philadelphia and reared in New York City. In 1931 he was a founder of the Group Theatre in New York City. Most of his plays were produced by the Group Theatre, including Waiting For Lefty (1935), a one-act play that established his fame; A ...

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