Title
Playwright
Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Performance Dates
October 21-23, 1971
Creative Team
Director - Dr. Roy Bowen
Designer-Technical Director - Fred Thayer
Synopsis
Life With Father is a 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day. Clarence Day wrote humorously about his family and life. The stories of his father, Clarence "Clare" Day, Senior, were first printed in the New Yorker magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. The more he rails against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, holidays, his children and the inability of the world to live up to his impossible standards, the more comical and lovable he becomes to his own family who love him despite it all. First published in 1936, shortly after his death, Day's book is a picture of New York upper-middle-class family life in the 1890s. The stories are filled with affectionate irony. Day's understated, matter-of-fact style underlines the comedy in everyday situations.
Life With Father. (2017, March 18). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:34, August 31, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Life_With_Father&oldid=770988748
Disciplines
Acting | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
College Theater, Otterbein University Theater, Drama
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "Life With Father" (1971). 1971-1972 Season. 5.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1971-1972/5