Icebound: A Play

With the production of “The Detour” about a year ago I managed to secure some measure of success in drawing a simple picture of life as it is lived on a Long Island farm; encouraged by this I am now turning toward my own people the people of northern New England whose folklore up to the present time has been quite neglected in our theatre. I mean of course that few serious attempts have been made in the direction of a genre comedy of this locality. Here I have at least tried to draw a true picture of these people and I am of their blood born of generations of Northern Maine small-town folk and brought up among them. In my memory of them is little of the “Rube” caricature of the conventional theatre; they are neither buffoons nor sentimentalists and at least neither their faults nor their virtues are borrowed from the melting pot but are the direct result of their own heritage and environment.