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Roots (Wesker)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 5m

Beatie Bryant, daughter of farm laborers, works in London where she fell in love with Ronnie Kahn. She goes home and enthusiastically tells her family about his views on life. Ronnie is to visit the Bryants and everyone is eager, if skeptical, to meet him but he doesn't turn up. He writes that he…

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    Cast Size
    4w, 5m

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Beatie Bryant, daughter of farm laborers, works in London where she fell in love with Ronnie Kahn. She goes home and enthusiastically tells her family about his views on life. Ronnie is to visit the Bryants and everyone is eager, if skeptical, to meet him but he doesn't turn up. He writes that he doesn't think it would work. Ronnie's disillusionment has seeped into his relationship with Beatie. Stunned and under her mother's mockery, Beatie stutters into a defense which becomes an attack on her stifling background and blossoms into a vision of what could have been.

Published in Wesker Plays: 1, The Wesker Trilogy.

  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker, considered one of the key figures in 20th Century drama, is the author of 44 plays, 4 volumes of short stories, 2 volumes of essays, an autobiography, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings. He was born ...

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