Tongue of a Bird
- Full Length Play, Drama
- 5F
- ISBN: 9780573627071
Emotionally powerful...and intensely satisfying.
Seattle Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
The search lasts for three days. Each night Maxine must face the girl's distraught mother, Dessa, and her own grandmother, Zofia, a reclusive Polish refugee. In sleep, Maxine is prey to nightmares and fragmented memories of a mother who abandoned her in childhood and was lost to insanity.
Cherry Jones starred Off Broadway in this powerful consideration of the notions of loss, motherhood and the vexed yearning for release.
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Emotionally powerful...and intensely satisfying.
Seattle Times
Characters
- Casting: 5F
- Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Roles for Children, All Female
MAXINE - mid to late thirties; a search and rescue pilot; solitary, ironic, and guarded.
DESSA - mid to late thirties; Charlotte's mother; tough, without self-pity, and utterly focused.
ZOFIA - early to mid-seventies; Maxine's grandmother, Evie's mother; a Polish exile, survivor of the 1939 Nazi invasion; visionary, difficult, and wise.
CHARLOTTE - twelve; Dessa's daughter; canny, bold, and slightly malicious.
EVIE - roughly Maxine's age; Maxine's dead mother; cool, wry, and lucid.
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Maxine, a search and rescue pilot, returns in midwinter to her childhood home in the Adirondacks. There she conducts a search for a girl who, while on a field trip in the mountains, was abducted by a stranger in a black pick up truck. The search lasts for three days. Each night Maxine must face the girl's distraught mother, Dessa, and her own grandmother, Zofia, a reclusive Polish refugee. In sleep, Maxine is prey to nightmares and fragmented memories of a mother who abandoned her in childhood and was lost to insanity. Cherry Jones starred Off Broadway in this powerful consideration of the notions of loss, motherhood and the vexed yearning for release. |
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