"Birthday Candles" also has an unusual theatrical device: we follow Ernestine Ashford from 17 to 107 meeting her on her various birthdays that are depicted. Â The other characters come and go (by death, moving away, or dropping out of her life). Inspired by Thornton Wilder's 1931 "The Long Christmas Dinner" which like "Birthday Candles" covers 90 years in one family, Wilder's landmark play has also inspired Paul Vo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:01PM on April 15, 2022