Ashes
by David Rudkin

Ashes

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Expandable Casting Bare Stage/Simple Set American

Synopsis

Drama Charcters: 2 male, 2 female w/doubling Bare stage with set pieces Anne and Colin are a thirty-ish British couple who desperately want a child.

With stark realism, harrowing insight, and dark humor, their efforts to achieve this blessing are portrayed as the embers of their hope become the ashes of their dreams and with bitter experience they summon the strength and love to go on.

"Probably the most important play of the season...It is entertaining, it is funny, it is bitter, and it is handsomely poetic."-The New York Times "Astonishing "-The Village Voice

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"Probably the most important play of the season...It is entertaining, it is funny, it is bitter, and it is handsomely poetic."

— The New York Times

"Astonishing!"

— The Village Voice

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1974
Pages 64
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573605635
ISBN-10 0573605637

Ashes is a American play written by David Rudkin and published by Samuel French (1974).

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