Off the Main Road
- Full Length Play, Drama, 1960s
- 6M, 5F
- ISBN: ps2869
"For admirers of Inge, a chronicler of desperate American lives... Off the Main Road provides a highly legible map of its creator's abiding preoccupations."
The New York Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 100 minutes
- Time Period: 1960s
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
But everyone seems to reflect her stifled longing, from her serious teenage daughter, who struggles to reconcile first love with faith, to her friend Jimmy, who avoids the subject altogether as a gay man in 1960s Missouri. Faye can't hide forever, from her dangerous husband or her own desires, and she may not be able to control what happens when she's found.
William Inge deploys the fierce empathy for his characters that makes him an essential American playwright in this passionate, newly-discovered drama.
REVIEWS:
"For admirers of Inge, a chronicler of desperate American lives... Off the Main Road provides a highly legible map of its creator's abiding preoccupations."
The New York Times
"Faye Garrit is an immediately recognizable William Inge woman: anxious, unmorred and yearning for something more... [Inge provides] insight into three generations of women in a changing mid-century America."
Variety
"Set in the Midwest in 1966, Off the Main Road is at once a period piece and contemporarily relevant, the roles are meaty, and the language and ideas are elevated. Rich in its portrayal of the opportunities and limitations on women's lives in the period between the Eisenhower 1950s and the feminism coming in the 1970s."
Albany Times Union
"Inge is superlative at exploring the obsessions and blind spots in mother-daughter relationships; the play is filled with dialogue that is at times painfully insightful, often probing the vulnerability of American illusions."
The Arts Fuse
"Inge was always a master of the English language and in this play he is on top of his game... Even as characters fold back they reveal more than they realize..."
The Berkshire Edge
Characters
- Casting: 6M, 5F
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Faye Garrit believes in hiding things. That's why after an incident with her abusive ex-baseball-player husband, she covers her black eye with makeup and lies low at an off-season resort, seeking to ease her creeping sense of aimlessness with pills and people. |
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