The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) - Softcover

Carson McCullers

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9780822200925: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822200929 ISBN 13: 9780822200925

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1963

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This play has a cast of 14 men and 6 women. Amelia, the proprietor of the Sad Cafe, throws her new husband out of their bedroom on their wedding night. Torn between anger and desire the husband finally leaves town only to return some years later to find Amelia showering all her affection on a dwarf cousin who has come to live with her. At their first meeting the dwarf is hopelessly attracted to the husband. In turn, the husband moves back into the Sad Cafe, threatening to run away with the dwarf if Amelia objects. The day of reckoning soon arrives and the husband and wife meet to settle their differences with their bare hands.

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This collection's major work--the haunting title novella--is an outstanding example of Southern Gothic. We learn of solitary, sour, Miss Amelia; and her cousin, a hunchbacked dwarf; and Amelia's rascally former husband. Peter Whitman gracefully conveys the moodiness, pain and struggles of these anguished and self-defeated characters through his steady pacing, authentic accents and sympathetic gender depictions. Unfortunately, Whitman is unable to arouse the listener's interest in any of the accompanying six short stories, which are undeveloped and poorly read. E.E.L. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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