Lydie Breeze, Part Two: Aipotu
John Guare
Lydie Breeze, Part Three: Madaket Road
by John Guare
Synopsis
THE STORY: In this final installment of the Lydie Breeze trilogy, three decades of tragedy come to a close as the nation approaches the turn of the century.
It’s 1895, and all hopes for the utopian commune Aipotu have been destroyed by adultery, murder, and suicide.
Those haunted by the past gather to seek expiation: the patriarch, Joshua Hickman; his youngest daughter, Lydie; his oldest daughter, Gussie; and Jeremiah Grady, the long-lost son of Dan Grady.
Moving from comedy to melodrama to tragic destiny, MADAKET ROAD untangles the twisted strands of their lives, illuminating the undying optimism that underlies the American ethos and the endemic corruption that subverts the cherished hopes of the future.
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"John Guare’s groundbreaking Lydie Breeze trilogy concludes with the powerful MADAKET ROAD… The personal tragedies of its young characters and the ghostly presence of the trilogy’s elders are finely wrought. Its imposing foreshadowing of the 20th century, the bold and violent ‘American century,’ looms large."
— Broad Street Review
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Lydie Breeze, Part Three: Madaket Road is a play written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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