Word: moonchildren
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Moonchildren...
...Moonchildren" by Michael Weller...
...your bellbottoms and bongs--these two plays appearing side by side will take you back the '60s where they examine college life from male and female perspective. Uncommon focuses on eight college friends at Mount Holyoke bonding through the travails of the feminist revolution with wit and warmth. Moonchildren breaks on through to the other side with the male student perspective as it features men wrestling with issues surrounding the Vietnam War and the mysterious disappearance of bottles of milk...
...guilt-ridden memory play, from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Eugene O'Neill's long-concealed Long Day's Journey into Night to Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky and Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Into those ranks comes Michael Weller. Heretofore best known for Moonchildren and the screenplay of Hair, both valedictories to the '60s, Weller looks back to his adolescence, a decade earlier, in Spoils of War. His story of estranged parents and a teenage son who schemes to reunite them is a harrowing addition to the genre and the only work of lasting value...
...makes the right phone call, no one finishes a project before the next begins and ultimately, Weller reveals that the youth of the '60s have, in the interest of self, failed to spawn a new generation with their former vitality. Weller captured that spirit perfectly in his first hit, Moonchildren, about college students in the '60s. Loose Ends surpasses Moonchildren in scope and finesse...