The Stonemason
Play written by Cormac McCarthy
The Stonemason is a play in five acts by American writer Cormac McCarthy, written in the late 1980s and first performed in 1995. It concerns a Southern black family based on one McCarthy spent many months working with. The play is rarely produced.
Synopsis
This play focuses on the tribulations of the Telfair family over a three-year period. The story is told by monologues of the character Ben Telfair, a thirty-two-year-old third-generation stonemason. Two acts are taken up to provide back-story which involves Ben's choice not to continue college and to take up the family business of stonemasonry.[1]
Bibliography
- Arnold, Edwin T. "Cormac McCarthy's The Stonemason: The Unmaking of a Play." Southern Quarterly 33 (Winter-Spring 1995).
- Josyph, Peter. "Older Professions: The Fourth Wall of The Stonemason." Originally appeared, in different form, in Southern Quarterly 36 (Fall 1997). Reprinted in Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy. Edited by Rick Wallach. 119–140.
References
- ^ "The Stonemason". CormacMcCarthy.com. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
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Cormac McCarthy
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- Awards
- The Orchard Keeper (1965)
- Outer Dark (1968)
- Child of God (1973)
- Suttree (1979)
- Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (1985)
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- No Country for Old Men (2005)
- The Road (2006)
- The Passenger (2022)
- Stella Maris (2022)
- The Stonemason (1995)
- The Sunset Limited (2006)
- The Gardener's Son: A Screenplay (1996)
- The Sunset Limited (2011)
- The Counselor (2013)
- "The Kekulé Problem" (2017)
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- Anton Chigurh
- Judge Holden
- The Cormac McCarthy Journal
- Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy (1999)
- Wittliff Collections
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