Listen To The Wind
by James Reaney
What readers are saying
Readers find the play to be extraordinarily beautiful and moving, commending both its outer and inner narratives. The use of simple, poetic language contributes to its epic quality, making it a highly recommended experience.
Synopsis
In a Perth County farmhouse some time during the 1930s, a boy named Owen decides to spend the summer putting on plays with the help of his cousins, his grown-up relatives and the neighbourhood children.
One of the plays they put on is their adaptation of a Victorian novel, The Saga of Caresfoot Court
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In James Reaney’s Listen to the Wind
, we watch a double story unfold: we see Owen fighting illness and trying to get his parents back together again; and we see Angela Caresfoot treading her way through a world of evil manor-houses and sinister Lady Eldreds.
The two stories intertwine and illuminate each other.
Publication
Listen To The Wind is a Canadian play written by James Reaney and published by Talon Books (1972).
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Talon Books · 1972 · 144 pp
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