num_pages: 72
description: An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism. The result is an almost surreal saga of American life, with allegorical meditations on the contradictions and interconnectedness of all things and the chaotic nature of the universe.
language: English
title: Lydie Breeze
titlecomplete: Lydie Breeze (Acting Edition)
genres: Plays
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.