The Long Christmas Dinner

The Long Christmas Dinner is a play in one act written by American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder in 1931.

In its first published form, it was included in the volume The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act.

The characters, as they are listed in the script: Setting: 90 years in the dining room of the Bayard House.

The development of the countryside, the changes in customs and manners during this period of time as well as the growth of the Bayard family and their accumulation of property sums up vividly a wide aspect of American life.

It is a serious play lightened with humor of character; it has a human, tender, moving quality both appealing and forceful.