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The Rimers of Eldritch
by: Lanford Wilson

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Binding: Paperback
Label: Dramatists Play Service
Manufacturer: Dramatists Play Service
Publication Date: 1967
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Sales Rank: 2399408
Studio: Dramatists Play Service

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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. The young men who remain in Eldritch ride around in trucks, race their cars, and look for easy sex. The attempted rape of an innocent young girl and the murder of a derelict become the events which trigger the "action."

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, in this early play from 1966, creates a mood of high tension through a series of scenes which move back and forth through time. The dialogue between the characters overlaps, ... Read More

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