SHOWS

Faulkner’s Bicycle

Written by Heather McDonald
Directed by Edward Sobel

Presented by Rivendell Theatre Ensemble

January 14, 2001 — February 24, 2001
Studio Theater

A haunting, impressionistic play set in Oxford, Mississippi in 1962 - William Faulkner’s hometown and the year in which he died.  Heavily influenced by Mr. Faulkner’s profilic body of work and by his inimitable style, Faulkner’s Bicycle is the story of three women, a mother and her two daughters, and their search to give purpose and meaning to their lives.  The character of William Faulkner weaves in and out through their story of drunken midnight bicycle rides throwing apples at passerbys and crashing into the pond.  Like so many of Faulkner’s own characters, these three women are saturated by memory and filled with enormous longing, yet they are not beaten down by the sadness and grief - they endure.