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Two stories about life intertwined with the creative dream. Cast of 4 women, 4 men, 1 girl and 1 boy.
About the author
James ReaneyJames Reaney was born in 1926 near Stratford, Ontario. Reaney taught at the University of Manitoba and the University of Western Ontario for a total of 40 years. He received his doctorate with Northrop Frye. Talonbooks published his plays
Colours in the Dark (1969) and
Listen to the Wind (1972). In 1975,
The St. Nicholas Hotel: the Donnellys Part II won a Chalmers Award. Reaney received the Order of Canada in 1976. He passed away in June 2008.
Summary
In a Perth County farmhouse some time during the 1930s, a boy named Owen decides to spend the summer putting on plays with the help of his cousins, his grown-up relatives and the neighbourhood children. One of the plays they put on is their adaptation of a Victorian novel, The Saga of Caresfoot Court. In James Reaney’s Listen to the Wind, we watch a double story unfold: we see Owen fighting illness and trying to get his parents back together again; and we see Angela Caresfoot treading her way through a world of evil manor-houses and sinister Lady Eldreds. The two stories intertwine and illuminate each other.
Additional text
"Keeps reminding us that the way through our world of sickness and breakdown is play."
— Profiles in Canadian Drama
