Dec 29, 2009

Reunion | Summary

Reunion takes place in the apartment of fifty-threeyear- old Bernie Cary. Carol Mindler, Bernie’s twenty- four-year-old daughter, has come to visit him. She hasn’t seen her father in twenty years, since he and her mother divorced. The play takes place in a series of fourteen short scenes, each of which represents a segment of one long conversation between father and daughter.

Scene 1
As the play opens, Carol has just arrived at Bernie’s apartment on a Sunday afternoon in early March. Bernie comments, ‘‘This is a very important moment.’’ He’s...