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RAYMOND CARVER (1938 - 1988)
Nationality: USAemail: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: ICM Partners
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Carnations Favor, The May I Help You?Carnations
Synopsis:
Carnations concerns the existential predicament of 28-year-old George Redfeather. It is an impressionistic, overtly-symbolic work of stagecraft influenced by the playwrights Carver was studying in the class. George, in Scene One, is in a park, standing next to a bench, holding a bouquet of carnations. He places the flowers on the ground and sits on the bench, forlorn. He is joined by 25-year-old Lucy Lascombe; he seems delighted to be in her company, saying, Its not often you meet somebody you can talk to
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1st Produced:
Humboldt State University 1962
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1st Published:
Engdahl Typography (Dec 1992) 978-0939489145
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Genre:
nine-page play in three short scenes
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Synopsis:
The Favor depicts a couple, Jim and Beth, harassed over the telephone by a friend who has lost something. The friend holds them responsible and blames them for this loss. They look everywhere for this objecti - it is indeed a tangible physical thingbut they cannot find it. I even looked in the toilet, Beth complains (27). as the couple frantically search they also analyze their relationship, how they appear to others, especially this particular, nameless friend. They do not seem to be in their own home, nor is it ever stated who the friend is and what was lost. We are told, however, that at a party or gathering once Jim witnessed Beth kiss the friend
http://dept.kent.edu/english/rcr/issues/03/1%20RCR%203%20pdf%20files/6%20Hemmingson.pdf
http://dept.kent.edu/english/rcr/issues/03/1%20RCR%203%20pdf%20files/6%20Hemmingson.pdf
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written by Raymond Carver And Tess Gallagher
1st Produced:
- 1982
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One act
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Synopsis:
Clothes are at the center of May I Help You? set in a womens clothing store as two friends trying on outfits reach an epiphanic moment over age and weight gain
http://dept.kent.edu/english/rcr/issues/03/1%20RCR%203%20pdf%20files/6%20Hemmingson.pdf
http://dept.kent.edu/english/rcr/issues/03/1%20RCR%203%20pdf%20files/6%20Hemmingson.pdf
Notes:
written by Raymond Carver And Tess Gallagher
1st Produced:
- 1982
Organisations:
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1st Published:
- -
Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
One act
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
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