Charles Laborde

Affinity Charles Laborde

Affinity tells of the early years of the career of celebrated architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, including the beginnings of his growth to fame, his first marriage, his trials as he became a famous designer of homes, and the dissolution of his marriage after beginning an affair with one of his clients. The play begins in 1937 with the construction of Taliesin West in Arizona and then retells the years from 1888 until the events of 1914 that led to the destruction of the first Taliesin in Wisconsin. The cast consists of three principal men, two principal women, one boy, one girl, and a chorus of four men and two women. There is doubling. Unit set.