After her death the girls were placed in foster homes, and now (which for the play’s purposes is circa 1975) we find them all in Los Angeles, in widely differing circumstances. One of the most powerful scenes, and also one of the briefest, is the first, in which the girls’ mother is gunned down by state troopers (at least I think that’s what they are) who she fears have come to take her children from her: an anxiety well-rooted in both personal and tribal history. Heather managed to purchase a small house on the outskirts of Lincoln, learnt to drive. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Line by line, even scene by scene, it’s often very well written. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Buddies by Barbara Park () at. They inhabit a political-psychological-symbolical drama whose powerful qualities are sidelined by diffuse construction and flat performance. About the author (1986) Barbara Park was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey on April 21, 1947. Spiritually, they may still be family practically, not a chance. Unlike in a folk tale, their proximity doesn’t result in their paths actually crossing not at least on any realistic level.

They were separated in childhood and, as in a folk tale, all turn up in the same place years later. Unlike the Fine sisters, or indeed the Chekhov sisters, the Native American sisters in Clements’ play haven’t grown up together. Though in Marie Clements’ Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (a Native Earth Performing Arts production) the invoking is done in the program rather than, as cheekily in More Fine Girls, in the script itself. Tombs of the Vanishing Indian a lopsided case study of family lifeīy Robert Cushman For the second time in one week we have a new play that revolves around three sisters, and that invokes Chekhov in doing so.

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