That Championship Season (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jason Miller
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1972
- Setting: Lackawanna Valley, Pennsylvania
- Principal Characters: James Daley, Tom Daley, George Sikowski, Phil Romano, The Coach, Norman Sharmen
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Memory, Politics, Prejudices or antipathies, Schools or school life, American Dream, Politicians, Small-town life, Athletes, Sports, Morality or morals, Middle age, High schools or high school students, Basketball, Nostalgia, Coaching or coaches
- Locales: Pennsylvania
The Play
The Coach, about sixty years old, has lived in his nostalgia-filled home nearly all of his life. In a ritual that he has continued for several years, he and four of his “boys,” as he still calls them, celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their victory in the 1952 Pennsylvania state high school basketball championship. Prominently displayed in the parlor, which provides the sole setting for the play, is the large silver trophy award with the players’ names engraved in it.
George, the current mayor of the town and a none-too-bright former insurance...
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