Lydie Breeze
by John Guare
What readers are saying
Readers find the play interesting but uneven. While the first act is praised for its engaging content, the second act tends to lose focus and coherence, resulting in mixed feelings about the overall execution.
Synopsis
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.
Publication
Lydie Breeze is a American play written by John Guare and published by Overlook Press in New York (2001).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books.
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Dramatists Play Service · 2001 · 72 pp
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