Jerome Lawrence

Robert Edwin Lee

Dramatizes the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial," where William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clash over a teacher's right to teach evolution.

Inherit the Wind

Robert E. Lee

The American naturalist's life and philosophy are revealed in a dramatic work which focuses on his symbolic act of civil disobedience in 1846.

A Play

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

THE STORY: This fabulously successful hit hardly needs introduction. Besides being the source for one of America's most popular musicals, AUNTIE MAME set a standard for Broadway comedy that's been sought after ever since. Auntie Mame was a handsom

Auntie Mame

"Collected here for the first time are the major plays of award-winning authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. This edition represents the only attempt to date to explore the range and nature of the team's collaboration. With introductions to each of the eight works - Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame, The Gang's All Here, Only in America, A Call on Kuprin, Diamond Orchid, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and First Monday in October - editor Alan Woods places the plays in their critical and historical contexts." "Although they are known primarily as successful commercial writers, Lawrence and Lee have always shared a passionate commitment to larger social issues. Their plays were written not just to entertain a broad audience but to present some "problem" ideas - for example, the evolution versus creationism debate in Inherit the Wind, perhaps their most famous collaboration." "While some of the plays collected here have become classics of the American stage, others remain obscure. In his introductions, Woods explores the factors that contributed to the success or failure of each play, including information about the actors and directors involved in the original production and the contemporary critical response."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

THE STORY: Even in her early days as an obscure radio actress, the natively keen-minded Felicia exploits every opportunity to obtain personal recognition. She meets a young army Colonel, who launches her into the stratosphere of society, and who, a

Sparks Fly Upward

Radio Writing by the Nation's Top Radio Writers

Off Mike

After refusing to pay taxes to the American government, which was engaged in what he saw as an unjust war, Henry David Thoreau is thrown in prison.

Jedediah Halsey and Kate Singer start new lives when they go to New York where Kate becomes a singing student of the famous Madame Rachel, and Jed's writing career takes off after he records Rachel's memoirs

A Tale of the Stage and the Screen and Music of Yesterday and Now and Tomorrow and Maybe the Day After Tomorrow : a Novel

A Golden Circle

Annie Capell

Schauspiel in drei Akten

Wer den Wind sät ...

The Vagabond King

The Student Prince

THE STORY: The scene is the American Bar in a sleepy Moroccan town, where a varied group of jaded expatriates gathers each evening seeking respite from the emptiness of their existence. This evening the bartender, Frank, offers them a special treat—a variety of mind-enhancing drugs. Accepting eagerly they are soon experiencing the eerie thrill of expanded awareness, until Frank announces that it is all a hoax, and drugs merely harmless powder. Their reactions vary from anger, to disenchantment, to a sudden determination to return to the mainstream of life. But there are also those who defy his allegation and cling desperately to the joyous release the drugs have brought them. As the play ends, an uncertain Frank tentatively samples his own wares—and slowly but surely begins to experience the unearthly sensations for which he had scoffed at the others.

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