THE STORY: The scene is the ornate, deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley place in Lebanon, Missouri; the time 1944. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley, the susceptible, but uncertain dau

"Talley's Folly" shows one evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers, Sally Talley and Matt Friedman. Sally is from a conservative, small-town, wealthy family of bigoted Protestants, and Matt is a Jewish accountant twelve years older than Sally

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THE STORY: The time is Independence Day, 1944, the place the parlor of the Talley homestead in Lebanon, Missouri. As World War II rages across the seas, the Talleys are beset with crises of a different sort. Slipping into senility, the elder Mr. Ta

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Nancy Cooperstein, Porter Van Zandt [and] Marc Howard present Jordan Charney [and] Debra Mooney in the Circle Repertory Company production of Talley's folly, a new comedy by Lanford Wilson. Directed by Marshall W. Mason; scenic design by John Lee Beatty; costume design by Jennifer Von Mayrhauser; lighting design by Dennis Parichy; sound design by Chuck London.