F. M

F. M.

    Alternative Title: Gardens of Eden

    Author: Romulus Linney

    First Performance: 1982, Philadelphia

    Published: 1984

    Genre: Drama in 1 act

    Setting: Classroom of small southern college near Birmingham, Alabama, 1981

    Cast: 1m, 3f

Celebrated novelist Constance Lindell, an attractive woman in her thirties, is teaching a creative fiction course, for which, owing to a dreadful tutor the previous year, only three students have enrolled: May Ford (forties), mother of three, gushingly admiring of Constance's writing; Suzanne Lachette, a pretty young divorcee; and Buford Bullough, a wild-looking young man who presents as a hick. Constance invites the students to read aloud from their work. May, who likes writing about the beauty of nature, begs Suzanne to go first. Suzanne reads from her...

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