Fathers and Sons
- ISBN-10
- 057369107X
- ISBN-13
- 9780573691072
- Series
- Fathers and Sons
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 145
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Samuel French, Inc.
- Author
- Brian Friel
Description
Drama / 9 m., 6 f. / Var. sets. In rural Russia in the mid nineteenth century, a brilliant, anarchic young medical student arrives at the provincial family villa of his best friend, Arkady, for the summer vacation. He wants to despise the family for their imperturbable complacency and bourgeois effeteness, but he is tormented by conflicting emotions. His desperate action has tragic consequences. "The evening leaves you pondering not just the play's political implications but the ageless tragedy
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