THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER

The performance runs with no intermission.

Famous American writer, playwright and critic Thornton Wilder was born in 1897 to the family of a pastor and journalist. He studied at the prestigious Oberlin College, graduated from Yale University, attended lectures at the American Academy in Rome and received a master's degree in the humanities there. Thornton Wilder represented the United States on many cultural missions abroad. He is the author of the famous novels The Cabala, The Woman of Andros, Heaven's My Destination and others.
He became known in Russia only in the 1970s as the author of the novels The Ides of March, The Bridge of St. Louis Rey, The Eighth Day and Theophilus North translated into Russian in 1975 not long before Wilder's death. At the same time two of his most popular full-length plays, Our Town and Almost Dead were staged. Thornton Wilder wrote 13 plays, including a cycle of one-act plays. One of the best of these is The Long Christmas Dinner written by the playwright in 1931 and later included in the collection The Angel that Troubled the Waters.

Winner of the Golden Sofit Award