Overview
Character Name
Robert
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
2000, the back porch of a house in Hyde Park, Chicago
Analysis
50s-early 70s - old enough to be the father of grown women, but young to die. Robert has died when the play opens, but he is a presence throughout the play: both as a product of Catherine’s imagination and in flashbacks. None of the other characters besides Catherine can
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