Icebound (play)

Icebound is a 1923 play written by American playwright Owen Davis, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is set in Veazie, Maine, a suburb of Bangor.

For other uses, see Icebound.

Productions

Icebound opened on Broadway at the Sam H. Harris Theatre on February 10, 1923 and closed on June 1, 1923 after 145 performances. Directed by Sam Forrest and produced by Sam H. Harris, the cast featured Edna May Oliver (Hannah), Lawrence Eddinger (Doctor Curtis), Robert Ames (Ben Jordan), Lottie Linthicum (Emma Jordan), Frances Neilson (Ella Jordan), Boots Wooster (Nettie Jordan), Phyllis Povah (Jane Crosby) and Charles Henderson (Jim Jay).[1][2]

The play was produced Off-Off-Broadway at the Metropolitan Playhouse of New York in September 2014. [3]

Icebound won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[4] The play was included in the Best Plays Of 1922-23, by Burns Mantle.[5]

Plot

The Jordan family is in their farm in Veazie, Maine in October 1922. They await the reading of the will by Judge John Bradford of the family matriarch who has just died. Much to the family's dismay, the farm and all of the money has been left to a distant cousin Jane Crosby. Jane has been told that she is to take care of the legal trouble of the young son of the family, Ben. Ben had left because he accidentally burned a neighbor's farm. Ben begins a flirtatious relationship with Nettie, the adopted daughter of Emma Jordan.

Film

The play was made into a film, Icebound, directed by William C. deMille, and released in 1924.[6]

References
  1. "'Icebound' Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed December 19, 2015
  2. Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich. "1923 Award" Outstanding Broadway Dramas and Comedies: Pulitzer Prize Winning Theater Productions, (books.google), LIT Verlag Münster, 2013, ISBN 3643903413, pp 16-17
  3. Gates, Anita. "The Weather Is Cold, the Feelings More So" New York Times, September 27, 2014
  4. "Pulitzer Prize for Drama" pulitzer.org, accessed December 19, 2015
  5. "Full Text of 'The Best Plays', Cornell University Library" archive.org, accessed December 19, 2015
  6. Icebound imdb.com, accessed December 19, 2015
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