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A New England household gathers as an elderly matriarch lies dying, and the confinement of winter brings family tensions, resentments, and competing claims to light. Siblings and in-laws squabble over caregiving, social standing, and the family homestead while secrets from the past surface. Over three acts spanning late autumn to the following spring, the play traces how duty, greed, regional manners, and buried grievances shape each character's choices, producing moral reckonings and a claustrophobic portrait of rural community life rendered through plainspoken dialogue and domestic realism.

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Title: Icebound: A Play

Author: Owen Davis

Release date: June 18, 2019 [eBook #59777]

Language: English

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ICEBOUND


By Owen Davis

The Detour
Icebound



ICEBOUND

A Play

BY
OWEN DAVIS

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1923


Copyright, 1922, 1923,
By Owen Davis.

All rights reserved

Published July, 1923

No performance of this play, professional or amateur,—or public reading of it—may be given without the written permission of the author and the payment of royalty. Application for the rights of performing “Icebound” must be made to Sam H. Harris, Sam H. Harris Theatre, New York City.

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