Word: lanford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RIMERS OF ELDRITCH is both evocative and entertaining, as Lanford Wilson re-creates the mood and the milieu of a ghost mining town in the Midwest. Fluidly paced by Director Michael Kahn, Rimers is a collection of vignettes that might have come from Winesburg, Ohio, set in the dramatic form of Under Milk Wood...
...Rimers of Eldritch, by Lanford Wilson, is a little bit like seeing and hearing vignettes from Winesburg, Ohio set to the cadences and dramatic form of Under Milk Wood. Eldritch is a once coal-rich Midwestern ghost town, whose remaining citizens have become tiny little slag heaps of humanity. The frustrated urge to flee has become the venomous urge to flail one another. They use one of the weapons of the weak-their tongues-and the air they breathe is incessant and malicious gossip. It takes a crime for anyone to become visible in Eldritch, and the play revolves around...
...Home Free!, by Lanford Wilson. A poignant fairy-tale quality pervades this story of a brother and his incestuously pregnant sister and helps the play achieve an astonishingly tender tension between sickness and sweetness. The boy (Michael Warren Powell) and girl (Joanna Miles) live in a fantasy playroom of imaginary companions and real toys, such as a miniature Ferris wheel. The atmosphere has a suffocating intimacy, an airless immunity to reality that recalls Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, with its similarly incestuous relationship. Reality finally intrudes with cruel pathos as the girl's birth pangs become her death...