Overview
Ah, Wilderness! is a sharp departure from the gritty reality
of the author's renowned dramas. Taking place over the July Fourth
weekend of 1906 in an idyllic Connecticut town, it offers a tender
retrospective portrait of small town family values, teenage growing
pains, and young love. Days Without End, John Loving is engaged
in a life and death conflict with the sneering, cynical element of his
psyche which has poisoned his past life, made him prey to false gods,
and now seeks to destroy him through suicide. He seeks absolution and
his tormentor perishes at the foot of the Cross.