The Breadwinner
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 10, 2005
Closed Oct 2, 2005
Opened Sep 10, 2005
Closed Oct 2, 2005
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A middle class man confronts his comfortable middle class family with a startling announcement, and no one's life will ever be the same. A surprising domestic comedy from the writer who famously once had four plays running simultaneously in London.
Written by Somerset Maugham and directed by Keen Company Artistic Director Carl Forsman.
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Men who abandon their wives and children aren't usually viewed sympathetically; they're talked about endlessly in psychotherapy sessions and called names not printable on a family website. Yet W. Somerset Maugham invites not only understanding but celebration for the defecting Charles Battle in his 1931 dramedy The Breadwinner.
Maugham's initial tactic in making the rich man's departure laudable is to present his children, Patrick (Joe Delafield) and Judy (Virginia Kull), as a pair of self-centered adolescents. They are challenged in superficiality only by their chums Timothy (David Standish) and Diana (Margaret Laney); indeed, the opening chatter among these "bright" young things would be [...]