The Apple Family. Richard Nelson

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      OTHER BOOKS BY RICHARD NELSON AVAILABLE FROM TCG

       Frank’s Home

       Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays

      INCLUDES:

       Franny’s Way

       New England

       Some Americans Abroad

       Two Shakespearean Actors

       Rodney’s Wife

      IN A TRANSLATION SERIES WITH RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY:

       The Inspector

       The Cherry Orchard

       A Month in the Country

      The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country is copyright © 2014 by Richard Nelson

      That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing are copyright © 2014 by Richard Nelson

      Introduction is copyright © 2014 by Oskar Eustis

      The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country is published by Theatre Communications Group, Inc., 520 Eighth Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10018-4156

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      The publication of The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country, by Richard Nelson, through TCG’s Book Program, is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

      Special thanks to Long Wharf Theatre for its generous support of this publication.

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      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Nelson, Richard, 1950–

      The Apple family : scenes from life in the country / Richard Nelson.

      pages cm

      ISBN 978-1-55936-775-2 (ebook)

      1. Rhinebeck (N.Y.)—Drama. 2. Domestic drama. I. Title.

      PS3564.E4747A85 2014

      812’.54—dc23 2014006961

      Book design and composition by Lisa Govan

      Cover design by Mark Melnick

      Cover photograph: Arvind Garg / The Image Bank / Getty Images

      First Edition, November 2014

      CONTENTS

AN AMERICAN SAGA

       An Introduction

       By Oskar Eustis

       THE APPLE FAMILY: SCENES FROM LIFE IN THE COUNTRY

THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING

A Conversation in Rhinebeck Election Night, November 2nd 2010

       SWEET AND SAD

       A Conversation on September 11th The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 2011

       SORRY

       Conversations on Election Day Election Day, November 6th 2012

       REGULAR SINGING

       Conversations on November 22nd The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy 2013

       Author’s Notes

       Acknowledgments