Rip Van Winkle Or "The Works"
by Richard Nelson

Rip Van Winkle Or  "The Works"

Synopsis

“...The play has a smart, engaging premise.

Rip Van Winkle's sleep and waking are used to frame a variety of themes: men and women, parents and children, alcoholism, superstition, and, above all, the battle between industry and agriculture in the social history of the Hudson Valley.

The style is also interesting: a kind of terse Bondian dialogue In short Brechtian scenes which allow the audience to find its own path between two ends of an imaginative leap....”Erika Munk, The Village Voice

Publication

Publisher Samuel French

Rip Van Winkle Or "The Works" is a play written by Richard Nelson and published by Samuel French .

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