Ludlow Fair and Home Free by Lanford Wilson (1998, Trade Paperback)
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THE STORIES: Ludlow Fair. In words of the Village Voice, this ”…is a bedtime story about two girl roommates. Rachel is glamorous, fast-living, sometimes lost in her own self-dramatizations; Agnes is plain, matter-of-fact, her shyness masked by a kooky personality. The play is ostensibly about Rachel: She turned her latest boyfriend in to the police when he stole from her, and now she is remorseful—now she decides she is in love with him. Agnes tries to cheer her up with wisecracks, then tries to rekindle her self-awareness, and finally Rachael goes to sleep. Agnes is left alone, thinking about her lunch date with the boss' disappointing son tomorrow. And suddenly it is her play, the realist is the true romantic. Agnes' unprepossessing but real emotions outweigh Rachel's trumped-up, self-indulgent flourishes, and suddenly the play is simple and moving.“ (2 women.) Home Free! Lawrence and Joanna, a brother and sister in their mid-twenties, have cut themselves off from the world ”outside,“ living in a cluttered playroom which they share with two imaginary companions, ”Edna“ and ”Claypone.” Surrounded by toys, including a brightly colored miniature Ferris wheel, they have created an atmosphere of almost suffocating intimacy and remove, where play becomes the business of life and reality an alien force to be kept at bay. But life intrudes all the same, and their fantasies have betrayed them into Joanna's pregnancy. Yet even this cruel irony can only be dealt with in almost antic,
- Publisher: Dramatists P.L.A.Y. Service, Incorporated
- Year: 1998
- ISBN: 9780822216285
- Condition: Very Good
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