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May 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 1991
Plank Road School |
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The story
chronicles the trials and tribulations of Newton Fuller who craves—and
gets—"a little place in the country to call his own." Newton and his
wife, Annabell, and their daughter, Madge, are hypnotized into taking
over one of those windowless, waterless, almost roofless houses that dot
the countryside. The ensuing troubles may be summed up by a search for
water, a quarrel with a neighbor who owns not only the brook but the
very road that leads from the highway to the house, the attempted
elopement of the daughter with a summer-theatre actor, and the usual
invasion of the weekend guests, including a prodigal uncle who is
assumed to be rich but turns out to be just another bankrupt. It is
discovered that the neighbor really doesn't own Newton's roadway, and
that Newton's wife, who began by showing disgust over her husband's
idiocy in wanting to live in the country, decides that he was right all
along.
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