Talley & Son

Talley & Son is a play by Lanford Wilson, the third in his trilogy focusing on the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri. It is set on July 4, 1944, the same day as Talley's Folly and thirty-three years prior to the events in Fifth of July.

Background

The play originally was produced Off-Broadway as A Tale Told in June 1981. Directed by Marshall W. Mason, the cast starred Patricia Wettig, Helen Stenborg, Michael Higgins (Eldon), Fritz Weaver (Mr. Talley), and Trish Hawkins (Sally).

Wilson was unhappy with the work and revised it substantially over the next four years. In Talley & Son, the dysfunctional family is debating the murky future of the family-owned businesses, a local bank and textile factory that seem destined to be absorbed by a conglomerate once World War II ends. Eldon Talley took control of the enterprises when his favored, elder brother died young, and although he has been successful, his miserly, bigoted father Calvin, who is expected to die at any moment, despises him and his efforts to defy his authority. Other characters include Eldon's spinster sister Lottie, a cynical rebel dying of industrial radium poisoning; his complacent wife Netta; their daughter Sally, who is dating a Jewish accountant; and Avalaine Platt, a mysterious visitor who claims she is Eldon's illegitimate daughter. Quietly observing the scene is the spirit of Timmy, Eldon and Netta's son, who has just been killed in battle in the South Pacific and has returned home a few hours before his parents receive the telegram announcing his death.

Talley

Talley (Welsh: Talyllychau) is a community and small village in Carmarthenshire, Wales.The population taken at the 2011 census was 494.

The community is bordered by the communities of: Llansawel; Cynwyl Gaeo; Llansadwrn; Manordeilo and Salem; and Llanfynydd, all being in Carmarthenshire.

It is the site of the ruined Talley Abbey, a former Premonstratensian foundation destroyed in about 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

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Coordinates: 51°58′34″N 3°59′28″W / 51.976°N 3.991°W / 51.976; -3.991

Talley (name)

Talley is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Talley (disambiguation)

Talley or Talleys may refer to: