Thornton Wilder
In this one-act play, originally entitled A Matter of Conscience, a lordly novelist, his wife, their doctor, their maid, her brother and a visiting stranger are caught up in various deceptions, illusions and mysteries – including a murder mystery in a haunted house. Novelist John's two pleasures in life are losing at solitaire and lecturing his wife about how there are no plots in life. Of course, his wife is cheating on him with the family doctor, who reveals not only their infidelity but a whole network of jailbreaks, murders, mutilations and buried treasure, all of which have taken place in John's house.
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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at Yale and Princeton, was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one ...
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