Home Front.

by James Duff

Acting edition. Full-length drama (4 men, 4 women) A middle-class Dallas family struggles to deal with their brooding Vietnam veteran son.

Genres: Plays

72 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1985

Reviews

[Cody Smith]

Devastating.

[sophia]

characters and family relationships are so painfully realistic and relatable that it was hard to read sometimes from how much i wanted to strangle each of them for different reasons

[William Harris]

Effective Vietnam era, returning vet play. The characterization & dynamics are credible, a veneer of daily, superficial tensions with submerged anger, frustration, and trauma. I know I make it sound like a party, right, but the darkest moments are saved, rightly, for the final scene. The third of 3 scenes might have dragged a bit, but the payoff was solid.

[Veronica]

Love mislaid unseen
Vietnam comes home to haunt
Absence lacks knowing

[Brandon]

I really liked this play about a young man dealing with life after Vietnam and his family's attempted Thanksgiving celebration. I just read a review from when the play premiered, http://www.theater.nytimes.com/mem/th..., the reviewer didn't seem to like it at all. I'm thinking that the problem may have been with the direction. Wouldn't mind reviving this one.