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Thornton Wilder Holiday Comedy 5m, 7f Interior The Long Christmas Dinner--nine decades long--showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family, and some of their Christmas dinners. Wilder breaks the boundaries of time as we measure it, and invites us to partake of "one long, happy Christmas dinner"-past, present and future. As generations appear, have children, wither and depart, only the audience appreciates what changes and what remains the same. "Every last twig is wrapped around with ice. You almost never see that," young Genevieve marvels, not realizing that her mother has made this observation years earlier nor that her daughter-in-law will one day do the same.
The Long Christmas Dinner was first produced November 25, 1931 in a joint performance by the Yale Dramatic Association and the Vassar Philalethesis at the Yale University theater in New Haven, Connecticut, along with Love and How to Cure It, Such Things Only Happen in Books, and The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden. "Like a surprise holiday gift...[these plays] shine like gems." - The New York Times. FEE: $45 per performance. Other Thornton Wilder titles available from Samuel French include:
The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun The Beaux' Stratagem Bernice Cement Hands Childhood The Drunken Sisters The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden In Shakespeare and the Bible Infancy Love and How To Cure It The Matchmaker Our Town Pullman Car Hiawatha Queens of France A Ringing of Doorbells Rivers Under the Earth The Skin of Our Teeth Someone from Assisi Such Things Only Happen in Books Theophilus North The Wreck on the 5:25 Youth
Collections
Collected Plays and Writings on Theater The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume I The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder Three Plays (Thornton Wilder) Thornton Wilder One Act Series: Wilder's Classic One Acts Thornton Wilder One Act Series: The Seven Deadly sins Thornton Wilder One Act Series: The Ages of Man
Novels
The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Cabala and The Woman of Andros: Two Novels The Eighth Day Heaven’s My Destination The Ides of March Theophilus North
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