The Long Christmas dinner by Thornton Wilder

Duration: 37

Year Published: 1976

Creator: ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA EDUC. (FILM

Format: 16mm

Copyright: Registered 5Jan76 · MP30949 (Jan-Jun 1977) Copyright holder: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation

Description: Thorton Wilder's example of the modern trend toward nonrepresentational symbolic theater represents ninety Christmas dinners (and ninety years of life) in the Bayard household. All action takes place around the dining room table, laden with imaginary food and drink. By stylizing dialog, dispensing with "real" scenery, ignoring the illusion of time, and emphasizing universal experiences. Wilder expresses his view that life is cyclical.

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