The Rope Dancers: A Play in Three Acts
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0573614903
ISBN 13
9780573614903
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1983
Publisher
Description
5 m, 4 f/ Int. This poetic drama starred Art Carney and Siobhan McKenna in the New York premiere. The story reveals the struggles of an Irish American couple at the turn of the century whose daughter has been born with six fingers on her left hand and who later becomes the victim of what appears to be St. Vitus' Dance. Margaret Hyland is convinced that the child's suffering is punishment from God, penance for James' alcoholism. Believing that the guilt is partially her own, she has become embittered, resentful and distant. Resolved in tragedy, the torments, repressions and denials of human beings caught in a inevitable maelstrom they can neither understand nor resist. - from Amzon
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