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'''''Summer Brave''''' is a play by [[William Inge]], a revision of his [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning 1953 play ''[[Picnic (play)|Picnic]]''. Set in a small town in [[Kansas]] in the early [[1950s]], it focuses on Hal Carter, an attractive young stranger who drifts into town just before the annual [[Labor Day (United States)|Labor Day]] celebration and sets off a chain of events that prompts various residents to reflect on the present and contemplate an unpromising future. |
'''''Summer Brave''''' is a play by [[William Inge]], a revision of his [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning 1953 play ''[[Picnic (play)|Picnic]]''. Set in a small town in [[Kansas]] in the early [[1950s]], it focuses on Hal Carter, an attractive young stranger who drifts into town just before the annual [[Labor Day (United States)|Labor Day]] celebration and sets off a chain of events that prompts various residents to reflect on the present and contemplate an unpromising future. |
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==External links== |
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[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3763 ''Summer Brave'' at the Internet Broadway Database] |
[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3763 ''Summer Brave'' at the Internet Broadway Database] |
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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=1pKYt515GHoC&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=%22Summer+Brave%22+by+William+Inge&source=web&ots=0Jqyol_cns&sig=nM3rQNT34_o1N3MlLr89LDBFPvY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result ''Summer Brave'' at Google Books] |
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*[http://www.ernestthompson.net/SummerBrave.html ''Summer Brave'' at ErnestThompson.net] |
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[[Category:1975 plays]] |
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Revision as of 19:08, 1 October 2008
Summer Brave is a play by William Inge, a revision of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 play Picnic. Set in a small town in Kansas in the early 1950s, it focuses on Hal Carter, an attractive young stranger who drifts into town just before the annual Labor Day celebration and sets off a chain of events that prompts various residents to reflect on the present and contemplate an unpromising future.
Of it, Inge said, "A couple of years after Picnic had closed on Broadway, after the film version had made its success, I got the early version out of my files and began to rework it, just for my own satisfaction. Summer Brave is the result. I admit that I prefer it to the version of the play that was produced [originally], but I don't necessarily expect others to agree . . . I feel that it is more humorously true than Picnic, and it does fulfill my original intentions." [1]
The Broadway production was staged two years after Inge's death. Directed by Michael Montel, it was not a success. After three previews, it opened on Oct 26, 1975 at the ANTA Playhouse and closed after 18 performances. Ernest Thompson, who later won fame as the writer of On Golden Pond, starred as Hal Carter. The supporting cast included Nan Martin, Alexis Smith, Jill Eikenberry, Miles Chapin, and Peter Weller.