The Eclipse
by Joyce Carol Oates
Synopsis
A middle-aged professor lives with her ailing mother.
The old lady, once a brilliant teacher, moves in and out of reality, has a fantasy Latin lover, and makes her daughter’s life miserable.
One night she whirls in a torrid dance with her lover while her daughter sleeps; death has released both from suffering.
This haunting play by one of America’s foremost authors was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville for the Humana Festival and was subsequently produced Off Broadway.
Published with Tone Clusters in In Darkest America .
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The Eclipse is a play written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Samuel French (1991).
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Samuel French · 1991 · 102 pp
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