Pride's Crossing
by Tina Howe

Pride's Crossing Book Cover
Pride's Crossing Cover

Awards & Recognition

Drama Critics Circle Pulitzer Prize

Finalist: 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 1997 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best American Play

Synopsis

The latest work by the award-winning author of Coastal Disturbances and The Art of Dining.

Press Reviews

"A play you will remember and forever cherish."

— New York Post

"Infused with Ms. Howe's lyrical sense of mortality [...] The dramatist's ear for the music in everyday conversation is obvious."

— The New York Times

"A lovely achievement."

— Variety

Characters

Character
Vita Bright

Mabel's housekeeper

Chandler Coffin

An old friend of Mabel's

West Bright

Vita 's son

Gus Tidings

Mabel's father

Maud Tidings

Mabel's mother

Frazier Tidings

Mabel's brother

Phineas Tiding
Julia Renoir

Mabel's granddaughter

Minty Renoir

Julia's daughter

Mary O'Neill

The Tidings's cook

Pru O'Neill

The Tidings's serving girl and Mary's daughter

Anton Gurevitch

Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orcchestra

Porter Bigelow

Mabel's husband

Emma Bigelow

Mabel's daughter

Kitty Lowell

An old friend of Mabel's

Pinky Wheelock

An old friend of Mabel 's

Wheels Wheelock

Pinky 's husband

Dr. Peabody

A Unitarian minister

David Bloom

A doctor and swimmer

Mabel Tidings Bigelow

A swimmer

Publication

Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 112
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9781559361538
ISBN-10 1559361530
LCCN 98014964
LCC PS3558.O894 P75 1998
DCC 812/.54

Pride's Crossing is a American play written by Tina Howe and published by Theatre Communications in New York (1998).

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