Lydie Breeze
By: John Guare.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Communal living -- Drama.; Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: pt. 1. Bulfinch's mythology. pt. 2. The sacredness of the next task.