Fifth Of July
by Lanford Wilson

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120 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Comedy

Synopsis

A group of friends who came of age in the sixties have a reunion in an old Missouri farmhouse, where their reminiscences reveal shattered hopes, buried resentments, lost dreams, and the unhealed trauma of the Vietnam War.

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"This brilliant, enthralling play has been hailed as a major work by one of our theatre's most important and celebrated writers. Alternately funny and moving, it deals with a group of former student activists and the changes that have been wrought in their lives and attitudes in the years since leaving college. “This is one of the most incredibly well-written, beautifully acted, profound and moving and often hilarious plays it has ever been my privilege to see in the American theater.” —New York Daily News. ”Few contemporary playwrights are as craftsmanlike and humane, or as wise as Lanford Wilson. There aren't many plays to see that are as interesting and absorbing and feeling and funny as this.“ —Cue Magazine. ”The characters are mostly flamboyant, their dialogue crackles with laugh-inducing lines and we find ourselves dazzled by Wilson's virtuoso writing."

— The Hollywood Reporter

Publication

Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Edition Acting Edition
Pages 86
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822203995
ISBN-10 0822203995
LCC PS3573.I458

Fifth Of July is a American comedy play written by Lanford Wilson and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).

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