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CARSON MCCULLERS
(1917 - 1967)Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Pollinger Ltd
Carson McCullers's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Ballad of the Sad Cafe F Jasmine Addams Member Of the Wedding, The Square Root Of WonderfulBallad of the Sad Cafe
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Top of PageF Jasmine Addams
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Tomboy Frankie thinks that she will be going with her brother and his new wife on their honeymoon and that afterwards she will live with them.
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Music by G Wood; lyrics by G Wood; book by Carson McCullers; book by G Wood; book by theodore Mann. Based on "the Member of the Wedding" by Carson McCullers
1st Produced:
Circle in the Square, New York 1971
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Musical
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Male: 5 Female: 8 Other: -
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Top of PageMember Of the Wedding, The
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the Times wrote of this play: "Carson McCullers' report of a harum-scarum adolescent girl in Georgia is wonderfully-almost painfully-perceptive; and her associated sketches of a Negro mammy and a busy little boy are masterly pieces of writing." According to the Journal-American, "Something rare and special." John Mason Brown wrote: "(This) study of the loneliness of an over imaginative young Georgian girl is no ordinary play. It is felt, observed and phrased with exceptional sensitivity. It deals with the torturing dreams, the hungry egotism, and the heartbreak of childhood in a manner as rare as it is welcome. . .plainly, it is the work of an artist."
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adapted from her own novel
1st Produced:
Empire Theatre, New York 05 Jan 1950
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Male: 6 Female: 7 Other: -
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Wearing - the London Stage 57.27
Top of PageSquare Root Of Wonderful
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Samuel French, NY, 1958 -
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Tragic Comedy Tragedy
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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