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The Fourposter
The Fourposter
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Author: Jan de Hartog Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 84 Pub. Date: 2017 ISBN-10: 0573609098 ISBN-13: 9780573609091 Cast Size: 1 woman, 1 man
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About the Play:
Winner of the 1952 Tony Award for Best Play
The Fourposter is a full-length comedy by Jan de Hartog.
This two-character play is
about a couple's
marriage over
many years. The
key moments in their long-lasting marriage are played out around
their four-poster bed.
The Fourposter is about
the ups and downs of
marriage over many years. It is a moving chronicle of a
husband and wife, Agnes and Michael, beginning on their wedding night
and ending thirty-five years later when, empty nesters, they leave
their house for a smaller place. They fret and quarrel, laugh, cry,
and make love in the same room in which they began their married
life. Standing throughout the evening is the old fourposter, silent
witness to all.
The Fourposter premiered in 1951 on Broadway at the Ethel
Barrymore Theatre, later moving to the John Golden. Starring Jessica
Tandy and Hume Cronyn, respected Broadway veterans and a real-life
couple, the initial production earned a Tony Award for Best Play and ran
for 632 performances. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in repertory, college, and community theatre productions because of its simple set and small cast.
Cast: 1 woman, 1 man
What people say:
"...the most civilized comedy
we have had on marriage for years." — The New York
Times
"This amusing account of the
hills and valleys of married life is really a delightful and tightly
written little play. The plot covers thirty-five years of marriage,
including the embarrassment of the wedding night, the birth of the
first child, the problems with the teenage children, the 'other
woman,' and
finally the mellow maturity of middle age." — The
Harvard Crimson
About the Playwright:
Jan de Hartog (1914-2002) was a Dutch-American novelist and
playwright. A former sea captain and a resistance fighter who escaped
from the Nazis during World War II and later moved to the US, he
wrote half a dozen plays and nearly two dozen novels based primarily
on his own adventurous life. His most successful play The
Fourposter, unlike many of his books, was not based on his own
life. He wrote the play while hiding out from Nazis in 1942 –
posing as an old lady in a senior citizens' home in Amsterdam. His
plays have been performed in 23 languages and his novels and
nonfiction books have been translated into 17.
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