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The Rimers of Eldritch.
by: Lanford Wilson

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812
EAN: 9780822209539
ISBN: 0822209535
Label: Dramatists Play Service
Manufacturer: Dramatists Play Service
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 63
Publication Date: 1998-01
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Sales Rank: 368865
Studio: Dramatists Play Service

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- A rewarding play experience whether you see it, or read it.
I think that's a very interesting thing to happen especially with a play as interestingly written as this. As a previous reviewer put it, much of the play is composed in a nature of chanting chorus of performers, almost impressionistic and cinematic in it's presentation and yet remaining immediate and intimate in feel. I don't look at this film as being about the Bible belt and such, so much as it's about how people judge others in contradiction of what the Bible teaches, they may go to church, but the church should punish those who knowingly gossip. What you get in this play is a preacher who is roundly ignored, people who largely care about rumor because the truth is something they don't want to face, and the beggar being the only one who is truthful and honest about who he is, and they hate him for it (most of them do). The play is set within a certain time-frame so it is dated, but is a great time capsule ... Read More

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- "People don't care! They don't see. What they want to think they think; what they don't they don't."
Living in Eldritch, a nearly abandoned Bible Belt town which was formerly a center of coal-mining, the remaining residents are hard-pressed to find much to do, other than to gossip about each other and attend church activities run by the hell-fire-and-damnation preacher. Anyone who is different from the norm is ostracized--a senile old woman, the town derelict living in a shack, the woman who runs a café and who is apparently having an affair with a much younger man. Since "there's nothing for a strong young man in this dead town," the young men who remain ride around in trucks, race cars, and look for easy sex. The murder of the derelict and the attempted rape of an innocent young girl become the events which trigger the "action."

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, in this early play from 1966, creates high tension throughout the play, which is a series of scenes--almost choral readings ... Read More

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- An amusing two faced play
This play beautifuly written about a sinister and "un-happening" town called Elderitch illuminates and shows how differen't it is from our society. This town is stuck in an atmosphere that is creepy and insincere. I am currently in the play and being two of the caracters, Lena and Mary. Acting out these two parts really shows the two differen't sides of one town. I love this play and would recomend it to anyone. This play is not for children, it is unforgiving and unseteling, and has some highly rated content and scenes.

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- What A Play!
The Rimers of Eldritch is an innotive piece of American theatre focused upon the Bible belt culture of the 1960's. Wilson writes about community life with such an edge an audience or reader will never forget the dark atmosphere of life the characters are condemned to.

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