I Never Sang For My Father
by Robert Anderson

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Unit Set/Multiple Settings American

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THE STORY: This is the story of Gene, a widower, with an elderly mother whom he loves and an eighty-year-old father, whom he has never loved, hard as he tried.

The father has been mayor of a small town in Westchester County, self-made and highly re

Press Reviews

"This moving and perceptive work, by one of our most distinguished playwrights, probes into the disquieting alienation that can exist between father and son—and which time and old age can only deepen—despite the best intentions of both. "…written with skill, insight and feeling…"

— NY Post

"…a playwright of deep compassion"

— NY Newsday

Publication

Year 1968
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place [New York]
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822205487
ISBN-10 0822205483
LCC PS3501.N34 I2 1968

I Never Sang For My Father is a American play written by Robert Anderson and published by Dramatists Play Service in [New York] (1968).

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