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Orphans;A Play

✍ Scribed by Lyle Kessler


Publisher
Grove Atlantic;Grove Press
Year
2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
177 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0802193110

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Now a Broadway production directed by Daniel Sullivan and starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster, and Tom Sturridge

" I have dreamed, for a long time, of doing this play with this director."--Alec Baldwin

In a run-down house in North Philadelphia live two orphan brothers: the reclusive, sensitive Philip, sealed off in a world of StarKist tuna and Errol Flynn movies, and Treat, a violent pickpocket and thief. Into this ferocious and funny world enters Harold, a mysterious, wealthy, middle-aged man who is kidnapped by Treat, but who soon turns the tables on the two brothers, changing forever the delicate power balance of their relationship. Both hilarious and heartbreaking, Orphans is a story of the universal love of a father for his son, and a son's need to live his own life.

Orphans is an international theatrical phenomenon, and has been produced in almost every country in the world. It premiered in 1983 at the...


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