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Reynolds Price

REYNOLDS PRICE

  
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Reynolds Price's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         August Snow         Better Days         Early Dark         Full Moon         Night Dance         Private Contentment

August Snow

Synopsis:
In August of 1937, in a small town in eastern North Carolina, we meet the Avery family. Roma Avery is the widowed matriarch who still maintains a hold on her recently married son, Neal. He and his wife, Taw, a former school teacher, rent a room from their friend, Genevieve Slappy, while Porter Farwell, Neal's boyhood friend, now lives in Romas house. Both Neal and Porter work at the family store, Avery's Clothing. After the first year of marriage, which has seen them drift apart, Taw gives Neal an ultimatum. He must recommit with heart and soul to his marriage vows by ending the long nights he spends out drinking with Porter. He has until supper to abide by her wishes or she will leave him. Neal begins to see life as a grown up, complete with the disappointments he's tried to avoid, and ultimately knows that Taw is the best thing to happen to him. He returns, quietly renewing his love.

Notes:
the first in the poetic trilogy, New Music, which chronicles the Avery family And their friends through 37 years in A North Carolina town. Elegant melancholy follows these people As they live through the depression, WWII And Vietnam, And A few private war

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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - January, 1990    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Better Days

Synopsis:
takes place in 1974, the day of Roma Avery's funeral. Neal and Taw have moved to Roma's house to care for her in her final illness. Porter has come home on leave from the Navy. Neal and Taw's son, Cody, now a captain in the Marines serving in Vietnam, has also returned on leave for his grandmother's burial. In the course of a day, all the characters make plans for themselves - and for others - as they are visited by Wayne's father, once sweet on Roma, and by Roma's old lover, Fontaine, a man Neal had heard about and never met and about whom he had only just told Cody. Grief gives way to humorous surprise and renewed bonds as Cody finds himself in the middle of a bottle spin to see who gets Roma's house - a place so full of memory some want to stay forever, some want to leave it behind as soon as the bottle stops spinning. With Vietnam calling Cody, Neal and Taw must contend with a new future, more hopeful that they can give their son, if he returns, better days ahead.

Notes:
part of New Music Trilogy

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1991   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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Early Dark

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in "Full Moon and other plays", Hern, London,    -

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Full Moon

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in "Full Moon and other plays", Hern, London,    -

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Night Dance

Synopsis:
chronicles the Avery family and their friends through 37 years in a North Carolina Town

Notes:
part of New Music Trilogy

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1st Published:
in "New Music", Hern, London,    -

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Private Contentment

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in "Full Moon and other plays", Hern, London,    -

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