Clara's Play

Clara's Play

Clara's Play

Clara's Play

Clara's Play

Overview

Clara, an aging spinster, lives alone in a remote farmhouse, the last surviving member of one of the area's most prominent families. It is summer, 1915. Enter an immigrant, feisty soul named Sverre looking for a few days' work before moving on. But Clara's farm needs more than just a few days' work, and Sverre stays on to help Clara fix up and run the farm. It soon becomes clear unscrupulous local businessmen are bilking Clara out of money and hope to gain control of her property. Sverre agrees to stay on to help Clara keep her family's property.

Produced at Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Theatre and at the Great American Play Festival of the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

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Authors

John Olive

John Olive is a widely produced and award-winning playwright, the author of Minnesota Moon, Clara's Play, Standing On My Knees, The Voice of the Prairie, Careless Love, Killers, The Summer Moon, Evelyn and the Polka King, God Fire, Into the Moonlight Valley, and many others. ...
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