Dec 21, 2009
The Kentucky Cycle | The Kentucky Cycle
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Schenkkan
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: Epic theater; family
- Time of Work: 1775-1975
- Setting: Southeastern Kentucky
- Principal Characters: Michael Rowen, Morning Star, Patrick Rowen, Sallie Biggs, Joe Talbert, Rebecca Talbert, Jeremiah Talbert, Ezekiel Rowen, Richard Talbert, Jed Rowen, James Talbert Winston, Franklin Biggs
- Genres: Family literature, Drama, History play, Epic theater
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Slavery or slaves, Native Americans or American Indians, Capitalism, Property, Economic conditions, Progress, Labor, Appalachia, Kentucky, Unions or unionism, Land settlement, Feuds, Coal or coal mining
- Locales: Kentucky
The Play
The Kentucky Cycle, as its title suggests, is actually a series of nine short plays
dramatizing the interrelated history of three fictional southeastern Kentucky families over two
hundred years. The plays are grouped in two parts that may be performed in all-day sessions
(with lunch or dinner breaks) or on consecutive evenings. Part 1 consists of five short plays
(with their times) titled “Masters of the Trade” (1775), “The Courtship of
Morning Star” (1776), “The Homecoming” (1792), “Ties That
Bind” (1819), and “God’s Great Supper” (1861)....
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