Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Zindel, Paul frey50

The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds a drama in two acts Paul Zindel; drawings by Dong Kingman - New York Harper & Row, Publishers 11971 - 109 p.

Drama Critics Award

This play deals with a widow & her 2 daughters, one of whom finds fulfillment in a science project. Beatrice was a mother ... and the embittered ringmaster of the circus Hunsdorfer featuring three generations of crazy ladies living under the sloppiest big top on earth. Nanny was no problem. She sat and stared and stayed silent as a venerable vegetable should. Ruth was half-mad and easily bought with an occasional cigarette. But how in the world would Beatrice control Tillie--keeper of rabbits, dreamer of atoms, true believer in life, hope, and the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds.


Play --Drama

812.54 Zin 4