Angels Fall: A Play

By Lanford Wilson

Book Overview

THE STORY: The scene is a small mission church in a remote part of New Mexico, where a middle-aged college professor and his lovely young wife detour unexpectedly after the highway is closed because... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809012456
• ISBN13: 9780809012459
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Angel's Fall

On the day Angels Fall takes place, all roads in a remote northeast corner of New Mexico are closed because of a nuclear accident at a nearby uranium mine. Four very different confused people find themselves confined to the sanctuary of a quiet sunbaked mission, where they find Frather Doherty, the mission priest, and Don Tabaha, a young Indian, his unofficial foster son and helper. Together thay act out "what is a rehearsal for the end of the world" and face the problem of "what manner of person' each will be. Julius Novick, writing in the Village Voice, commented: "Mr Wilsom has dramatized their interactions so deftly, and Marshall W. Mason has directed such a full and mellow production, that Angels Fall is a warm, funny, touching, highly satisfying theatrical evening ... Mr. Wilson characters - most of them, anyway - have their own voices, their own way of speaking, feeling, being. They're there. They're themselves. They cast shadows. They draw you in." --- from book's back cover