The Long Christmas Dinner
by Thornton Wilder

Name: The Long Christmas Dinner
Brand: Thornton Wilder
SKU: 9780573662829
Rating: 3.84 (1 reviews)

Off-Broadway

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One Act40 mins1930sEnsemble CastInterior SetPeriod CostumesComedy

Synopsis

The Long Christmas Dinner – nine decades long – showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family.

Wilder breaks the boundaries of time as we measure it, and invites us to partake of “one long, happy Christmas dinner” – past, present and future.

As generations appear, have children, wither, and depart, only the audience appreciates what changes and what remains the same.

“Every last twig is wrapped around with ice.

You almost never see that,” young Genevieve marvels, not realizing that her mother made this observation years earlier, or that her daughter-in-law will one day do the same.

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Roderick Mother Bayard's son	female	—	Mother Bayard's son
Mother Bayard	—	—	—
Cousin Brandon	—	—	—
Charles Lucia and Roderick's son	—	—	Lucia and Roderick's son
Genevieve Lucia and Roderick's daughter	female	—	Lucia and Roderick's daughter
Leonora Banning Charles's wife	female	—	Charles's wife
Lucia Leonora and Charles's daughter, Samuel's twin	female	—	Leonora and Charles's daughter, Samuel's twin
Samuel Leonora and Charles's son, Lucia's twin	—	—	Leonora and Charles's son, Lucia's twin
Roderick Leonora and Charles's youngest son	—	—	Leonora and Charles's youngest son
Cousin Ermengarde	—	—	—
Servants	—	—	—
Nurses	—	—	—
Lucia Roderick's wife	female	—	Roderick's wife