Talley and Son (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lanford Wilson
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Domestic realism, Family literature, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Values, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Tradition, Love or romance, 1940’s, Midwest, Individuality, War, Missouri, Accountants or accounting
- Locales: Missouri, Lebanon, MO
This play, produced relatively late in Lanford Wilson's Talley cycle, actually had its first Broadway airing in 1981, when it was produced as A Tale Told. This early version of the play was not a notable success, although it received some encouraging critical attention. After it closed on Broadway, it enjoyed a continued run Off-Broadway.
Wilson has a habit of working and reworking plays that do not please him, and he reworked A Tale Told for four years, bringing it to Broadway with the new title Talley and Son. The play has a complicated plot, but Wilson...
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