Synopsis
The Carpetbagger's Children
$13
Published by Dramatists Play Service
0 Male 3 Female
In funny, moving, engaging monologues, three sisters spin the
tale of their family and an era. Their father, the eponymous
carpetbagger, was a former Union soldier who used his post
as county treasurer and tax collector to amass a Texas plantation
of twenty thousand acres
Preserving that plantation through the vicissitudes of their lives becomes a central issue for his daughters, Cornelia, Grace Anne and Sissie
With echoes of The Three Sisters and King Lear, The Carpetbagger's Children explores the bonds of a family to the land that has shaped their identity, influenced their destiny and, like the family itself, undergone dramatic change with the passage of time
"... bitter-sweet music ... a rhapsody of ambivalence ... in its modest, garrulous way, [the play] is theatrically daring" - The New Yorker