Sunrise at Campobello
by Dore Schary
Synopsis
THE STORY: Brooks Atkinson in The New York Times , describes ”The play covers thirty-four months when F.D.R.'s crisis was a private one—from the day in August, 1921, when he was stricken by infantile paralysis at his summer home at Campobello, in Canada, to the day at Madison Square Garden in June, 1924, when he was able to stand on his feet long enough to nominate Al Smith for President of the United States …”
Press Reviews
"Superb…SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO is an enormously moving and gratifying experience in the theatre.” —New York Journal-American. “…much more than a stirring drama…it is a very beautiful play.” —New York Daily News. ”…the virtue of this deeply moving chronicle…is simplicity, tenderness and reticence. Mr. Schary has recorded the ordeal of a vigorous man struck down by a terrible illness but not defeated. What rose from the invalid's chair was greater than what had climbed into it.“ —The New York Times. ”[SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO is] in no sense a political play…It is an entirely personal document."
— New York Post
Publication
Sunrise at Campobello is a play written by Dore Schary and published by Dramatists Play Service (1961).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1961
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