Mary Chase's beloved comedy follows Elwood P. Dowd, a gentle, unfailingly polite man whose best friend is Harvey, an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit only Elwood can see. Elwood's devoted but increasingly mortified sister, desperate to protect the family's social standing, tries to have him committed to a sanitarium, setting off a farcical chain of mistaken commitments and mix-ups among doctors, orderlies, and family members. As the story unfolds, the play gently asks whether Elwood's kind, unhurried, imaginative way of moving through the world might actually be saner, and happier, than the anxious respectability everyone else is so desperate to maintain. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it remains a warmly humane comedy about kindness, eccentricity, and the courage to be exactly who you are.

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