Introduction to Modern One-act Plays


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The one-act play occupies a special niche in the history of modern theatre, attracting major talents like Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, Terence Rattigan, James M. Barrie, and J. M. Synge, Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman. In this collection, 'An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays, ' Marshall Cassady, veteran writer and teacher, has assembled seventeen complete one-acters by these and other famous writers.




Thirty Famous One-act Plays


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The playwrights range from Strindberg to Coward & Saroyan in the anthology that also includes biographical sketches.







Sixteen Public Domain One-Act Plays by Modern Authors


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This fine selection of 20th century plays includes contributions from Robert Emmons Rogers ("The Boy Will"), Booth Tarkington ("Beauty and the Jacobin"), Ernest Dowson ("The Pierrot of the Minute"), Oliphant Down ("The Maker of Dreams"), Percy MacKaye ("Gettysburg"), A.A. Milne ("Wurzel-Flummery"), Harold Brighouse ("Maid of France"), Lady Gregory ("Spreading the News"), Jeannette Marks ("Welsh Honeymoon"), John Millington Synge ("Riders to the Sea"), Lord Dunsany ("A Night at an Inn"), Stark Young ("The Twilight Saint"), Lady Alix Egerton ("The Masque of the Two Strangers"), Maurice Maeterlinck ("The Intruder"), Josephine Preston Peabody ("Fortune and Men's Eyes"), and John Galsworthy ("The Little Man"). All of these plays may be staged free of charge in the United States (and possible in other countries--check your local copyright laws for details).




Sweet and Twenty


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Published in 1921, this volume comprises fifty representative one-act plays of the modern theater, selected from the dramatic works of contemporary writers worldwide. The work meets a long-felt demand for an accessible collection of the most premium plays created by art theaters all over the world. It is a whole repertory for a little theater, a volume for studying the contemporary drama, a representative collection of the world's finest short plays. This volume includes famous: Belgium play The Intruder by Maurice Maeterlinck; German play The Tenor by Frank Wedekind; British play Mary's Wedding by Gilbert Cannan; Indian play The Judgment of Indra by Dhan Gopal Mukerji; Italian play The Rights of the Soul by Giuseppe Giocosa; American play The Shadowed Star by Mary MacMillan; French play Francoise's Luck by Georges Porto-Riche and many more.




Play the Scene


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A collection of over a hundred scenes and monologues from plays from the Elizabethan period to contemporary Tony Award winners.




New One-act Plays for Acting Students


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This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes fifteen scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologues and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avante garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use.