The Family Reunion

"The Family Reunion" is a play by Nobel Prize winning poet T. S. Eliot.

Performances

First performance

The play was first performed in March 1939 at the Westminster Theatre, London. (Gallup, p.64)

Other performances

Other performances of the play include:
*The Mercury Theatre, London. (November 1946) (Gallup, p.64)
*The Phoenix Theatre, London (June 1956) (Gallup, p.64)It is due to be performed at [The Donmar Warehouse] [http://www.donmarwarehouse.com/p180.html] in London starting on 20th November 2008 in a production starring Samuel West and Penelope Wilton, directed by Jeremy Herrin, designed by Bunny Christie.

Reception and criticism

Eliot's own criticism

In 1951, in the first Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture at Harvard University Eliot criticized his own plays in the second half of the lecture, explicitly the plays "Murder in the Cathedral", "The Family Reunion", and "The Cocktail Party". The lecture was published as "Poetry and Drama" and later included in Eliot's 1957 collection "On Poetry and Poets".

References

*Gallup, Donald. "T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography (A Revised and Extended Edition)" Harcourt Brace & World (1969)

Further reading

*T. S. Eliot, "The Complete Poems and Plays"
*Grover Smith, "T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning"
*E. Martin Browne, "The Making of T.S. Eliot's Plays".

External links

*Gutenberg author|id=T._S._Eliot|name=T. S. Eliot
* [http://www.english.uga.edu/~232/eliot.taken.html The T.S. Eliot Page]