cover art by Ann Harakawa
“...The play has a smart,
engaging premise. Rip Van Winkle's sleep and waking are used to
frame a variety of themes: men and women, parents and children,
alcoholism, superstition, and, above all, the battle between
industry and agriculture in the social history of the Hudson
Valley. The style is also interesting: a kind of terse Bondian
dialogue In short Brechtian scenes which allow the audience to
find its own path between two ends of an imaginative
leap....”
Erika Munk, The Village
Voice
originally produced by the Yale Repertory Theater
15 M, 7 F, minimum
I S B N: 0-88145-044-8: $8.95
also available in PLAYS BY RICHARD NELSON, EARLY PLAYS VOLUME THREE