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Matchmaker de Thornton Wilder

Matchmaker

Autor Thornton Wilder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2010
Farce / Casting: 9m, 7f / Interior SceneryA certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into a hilarious complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically and has his heart's desire, the merchant finds himself affianced to the astute matchmaker herself. He who was so shrewd in business is putty in the hands of Dolly Levi. He is fooled by apprentices in a series of hilarious hide and seek scenes, and finally has all his bluster explode in his face.
"Loud, slap dash and uproarious ... extraordinarily original and funny." - The New York Times
"Rolls along merrily and madly and the customers are convulsed." - N.Y. Journal American.
"The lines of Wilder are so often brilliant, sage, and witty." - N.Y. Daily News
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ISBN-13: 9780573612220
ISBN-10: 0573612226
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:A Samuel Fr Act.
Editura: Samuel French, Inc.

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Now, for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Thornton Wilder’s brilliant, hilarious play, which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, with an afterword by Tappan Wilder
Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy old merchant residing in Yonkers, decides it’s time to take a wife and hires a matchmaker. But Dolly Gallagher Levi is no ordinary matchmaker. She’s a force of nature, with a plan of her own. Levi soon becomes embroiled in the affairs of the hearts of all those around her—including Vandergelder’s niece, his store clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant, where this swift farce inevitably runs headlong into hilarious complications. Indeed, after a series of slapstick situations involving mistaken identities, a secret rendezvous behind carefully placed screens, separated lovers, and a trip to night court, everyone eventually finds themselves paired with a perfect match.
A delightful, deliciously funny classic by Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker is astonishingly modern and is sure to resonate with audiences and readers today.

Notă biografică

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!. He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, the opera, and films. (His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt [1943] remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day.) Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.