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From the British novelist, this Tony Awardâwinning drama of family secrets delivers âbrilliantly effective . . . enormously provocative . . . theatrical suspenseâ (New York Post). The Callifer family has assembled in the English country home of Wild Grove where its patriarchâa once-renowned rationalist and man of lettersânears death. Arriving unexpectedly to pay his respects is his son, James, a pariah among the Callifers, who finds a dark veil still drawn over his mysterious childhood. It was decades ago, when James was fourteen, that something happened to him in the garden shed, a black hole in his memories. For everyone else, itâs an unforgettable source of uneaseâand for some, unforgiveable. To discover the truth, James seeks out his ostracized uncle, an alcoholic priest with nothing left to lose. What unfolds makes for âsome of the most moving, forceful and compelling theatre since Eugene OâNeillâ (The Harvard Crimson). Graham Greeneâs Tony Awardâwinning work for the stage made its Broadway debut in 1957 and was hailed by the New York Times as âan original drama that probes deep into the spirit and casts a spell.â  |
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