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Independence

Independence
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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Author: Lee Blessing
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 72
Pub. Date: 1985
ISBN-10: 082220567X
ISBN-13: 9780822205678
Cast Size: 4 female

About the Play:

Independence has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female/Female Scenes.

Independence is a full-length drama by Lee Blessing. A family crisis brings three sisters together in the Iowa house where they all grew up, caring for their emotionally-challenged and dangerously manipulative mother. A powerful female-fueled project, Independence is the story of a family divided against itself.

Independence is about an uneasy family reunion between a mother and her three daughters, each attempting to find her own independence from a mother who feels abandoned first by her husband then by her children. The setting is the small town of Independence, Iowa, the lifelong home of Evelyn Briggs. Her oldest daughter, Kess, is a university professor in Minneapolis, but she has come home at the request of her sister, Jo who is concerned for Evelyn's mental health. Kess, a professed lesbian, wants to cut her family ties once and for all; Jo, an incurable romantic and longtime virgin, has now become pregnant; while Sherry, salty-tongued and amoral, wants only to finish high school so she can leave home for good. In the end, they discover there is no accommodation possible but, instead, only a kind of arbitrary independence for each of the protagonists, as they come to realize that each must find her own heaven – or hell – in her own way.

Independence premiered in 1984 to critical and popular acclaim at the famed Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the annual Festival of New American Plays, an influential showplace for playwrights. Since then it toured Scandinavia, premiered in France and Belguim. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has become a staple of community theatres and regional repertory houses.

Cast: 4 female

What people say:

"Mr. Blessing writes admirably well timed and weighted dialogue, and the play takes the cleverly invented characters through to a chilling end." — Plays and Players (England)

"Blessing has a hair-trigger sensitivity to what families are saying and doing now, this minute…." — Dallas Times Herald

"…a delicate balance of comic and tragic elements." — Louisville News American

About the Playwright:

Lee Blessing is an American playwright who remained in his hometown of Minneapolis working in regional theater before relocating to New York when he was in his forties. The author of over twenty plays and screenplays, he been nominated for Tony and Olivier Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize. He is professor emeritus at Rutgers University, where for a dozen years he headed the Graduate Playwriting Program of Mason Gross School of the Arts.

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