Is The Family Reunion a modernist Drama? Discuss 

This isn't one play but three - an intense revenge drama taking in Greek tragedy, a conventional potboiler and a satire on mid-20th-century country-house drama - interwoven with a slim volume of modernist poetry and an agonised chapter from Eliot's otherwise unwritten autobiography. One of its characters, Violet, ceaselessly proclaims her inability to understand a word that anyone is saying, a feeling some of the audience might share.

Yet this is a play written for a West End audience, and beneath myriad obfuscations lies a discernible, if not quite gripping, plot. Harry, eldest son of the indomitable Amy, is summoned to his ancestral home by this overweening matriarch - inexorably drawn there by some mysterious power he fears and cannot comprehend. Within minutes of his arrival, he announces that he murdered his wife (a figure dangerously reminiscent of Eliot's own first wife, Vivien Haigh-Wood). Did he? Amy's sphinx-like sister Agatha appears to hold the answer - to this, and to Harry's haunting. And in guiding her nephew Harry to the truth, she finally fulfils a desire for revenge against the sister she has envied for decades.

Though useful, the segments in which the plot unfolds are the least interesting elements of this strange play. Far more fascinating, if variably successful, are Eliot's ______ __________ ____ _____ _____.
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