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10 Minute Play, Comedy / 3w, 2m
Thornton Wilder
This short play, set in the living room of an upscale home in 1910s Boston, is part of Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons .
“The Living room of Mrs. Eva Hibbert-Havens, Boston.”
In this five-minute, five-person drawing room comedy, the mother, daughter and son of a blue-blooded aristocratic Boston family wrestle with social mores, hypocrisy and each other as they contemplate the hazards, fortunes and possible delights of marrying beneath themselves. The work foreshadows Wilder’s fascination, often hilariously depicted, with the deleterious impact of wealth and class on personality and community; see such works as The Cabala (1926) The Matchmaker (1954) and Theophilus North (1973).
This short play is included in the collection Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons.
This play, written in 1917 when Wilder was a Yale College sophomore, was first published by TCG Press in 1998 in The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II.
EVA
CHARLES
JULIA
GEORGE
PHYLLIS
The living room of Mrs. Eva Hibbert-Havens, Boston.
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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both drama (Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth) and fiction (The Bridge of San Luis Rey). He collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt, hiked the Alps with the heavyweight boxing champion ...