Frank D. Gilroy

Full Length, Drama

2 m., 1 f.

Int.

The action in this engrossing drama is deceptively simple. A son who went away to war as a pampered boy comes back as a man of his own, and the varying effects on his mother and father are devastating. They want to love each other, to relive the good old times and build some better ones together, but each finds it impossible to communicate with either of the others. They have grown irrevocably apart, and can no longer reconcile the dream and the reality. A polka with his mother throws both her and Timmy into fits of laughter; but then, this isn't the boy she remembers at all. His father gives up a lucrative business appointment to take him to a ball game, and they have a whale of a time; but the next morning the rancor of husband and wife turns sour the love of father for son. They want to love one another, but do not know how.

Pulitzer Prize, 1965

Best Play of the Year, N.Y. Drama Critics

"In this corner, the verdict is roses. . . . Tender and lucid play." N.Y. World Telegram & Sun

FEE: $75 per performance.

Slightly Restricted; not available in N.Y.C. area