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These three plays were written in reverse order in the early 1980s with various titles, and are published collectively, with a second revision, as the Lydie Breeze trilogy.

Alternate title taken from author's preface.

Includes Production history before the revision notes and preface.

Part 1: Cold Harbor. Follows the adventures of Lydie Breeze, an idealistic young nurse who's fled Nantucket after her father's suicide the learn the truth behind his death. On the battlefield at Cold Harbor, she meets Joshua Hickam, a secret service agent; his aide, Amos Mason; and Sergeant Dan Grady. Disillusioned by an endless war, the men follow Lydie Breeze back to Nantucket. (Cast: 16 men, 9 women (doubling, flexible casting))

Part 2: Aipotu. Meets the adventurers from Cold Harbor seven years after the end of the Civil War. In that time, Lydie, Joshua, Amos, and Dan have built a utopian commune named "Aipotu". However, their ideals meet reality when Joshua's philosophical magnum opus is rejected for publication. With Lydie working as a nurse to keep the commune colvent, Amos away on personal business, Joshua disheartened, and Dan off working the railroads, the community they had sought to establish is more more fragmented failure than utopia. But when Dan returns with a mysterious sum of money, their prayers, it seems, are answered--until greed trumps goodwill. (Cast: 5 men, 2 women)

Part 3: Madaket Road. It's 1895, and all hopes for the utopian commune Aipotu have been destroyed by adultery, murder, and suicide. Those haunted by the past gather to seek expiation: patriarch Joshua Hickman; his youngest daughter, Lydie; his oldest daughter, Gussie; and Jeremiah Grady, the long-lost son of Dan Grady. (Cast: 6 men, 4 women)

Cold Harbor

Aipotu

Madaket Road.

Part 1: Cold Harbor

Part 2: Aipotu

Part 3: Madaket Road.

Communal living > Drama.

Nantucket Island (Mass.) > Drama.

Massachusetts > Nantucket Island.