Charles Ives Take Me Home
by Jessica Dickey

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Highlights

90 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Basketball and music collide in this smart, endearing story about a daughter yearning to connect with a distant father.

Coach Laura visits her divorced dad John on weekends, desperately trying to breach the gap between their passions.

Only long-dead modernist composer Charles Ives can convince John to see the connections between violin and basketball and help this family reunite.

Characters

Character
Coach Laura Starr

30s. Slightly butch, geeky, high school basketball coach. Takes the game very seriously. Great dribbling skills. Tough and vulnerable.

John Starr

50s. A talented violinist. Strict, patriarchal, devoted to his music, a cold father. Resentful of sports.

Charles Ives

The modernist composer. Well into the latest years of his life, but full of enthusiasm and mischief and humor. Deeply subversive and humanist.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573702709
ISBN-10 0573702705

Charles Ives Take Me Home is a play written by Jessica Dickey and published by Samuel French .

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