Characters: 4 or 5 male, 4 or 5 female, plus many small parts w/doubling Scenery: Interiors and Exteriors Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the groundbreaking satiric fantasy follows the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of "The War" surviving flood, fire, pestilence, locusts, the ice age, the pox and the double feature, a dozen subsequent wars and as many depressions. Ultimately, they are the stuff of which heroes and buffoons are made. Their survival is a vividly theatrical testament of faith in humanity. "Wonderfully wise...A tremendously exciting and profound stage fable."-Herald Tribune
- ISBN10 0573615489
- ISBN13 9780573615481
- Publish Date 7 July 2017 (first published 15 April 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Samuel French Inc
- Imprint Samuel French, Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 142
- Language English