Twenty one-act plays : an anthology for amateur performing groups / edited with prefaces and an introductory note by Stanley Richards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richards, Stanley, 1918-1980.

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

One-act plays.

Amateur plays.

Genre:

Acting scripts.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 663 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Edition:

[Book Club edition].

Other Title:

20 one-act plays

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1978]

Contents:

The patient / Agatha Christie

Fumed oak / Noël Coward

Portrait of a madonna / Tennessee Williams

Visitor from Forest Hills / Neil Simon

Table number seven / Terence Rattigan

The primary English class / Israel Horovitz

Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets

Black comedy / Peter Shaffer

Bus Riley's back in town / William Inge

The dark lady of the sonnets / Bernard Shaw

Happy ending / Douglas Turner Ward

Hello out there / William Saroyan

Next / Terrence McNally

Bound east for Cardiff / Eugene O'Neill

The typists / Murray Schisgal

Poor Aubrey / George Kelly

Infancy / Thornton Wilder

The other son / Luigi Pirandello (translated by William Murray)

Amicable parting / George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath

Miss Julie / August Strindberg (translated by Michael Meyer).

Notes:

Edition information from dust jacket.

"This volume has a dual purpose: to entertain the reader and to provide exceptional source material for producing groups."--An Introductory Note.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

8161795