Ocean State Libraries

"Presents English translations of five plays by twentieth-century French playwright Jean Anouilh, including "Antigone," "Eurydice," "The Ermine," "The Rehearsal," and "Romeo and Jeanette.""--

Told in just 90 minutes, the devastating play writes about a young woman who "looks out at the world and sees : NOT FAIR."

Arthur Kopit's plays reflect diversity: the hilarious Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, followed by Indians, a deeply felt social satire filled with humor and featuring a pompous Buffalo Bill, who both romanticizes and exploits the Native Americans. Wings, a sensitive and beautiful work, is about an older woman who has suffered a massive stroke. End of the World turns to humor to comment on the Bomb and the preposterous. Rationalization...

Arthur Kopit burst onto the world theatrical scene right out of Harvard in 1959 with his international hit Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, which announced Kopit's comic and architectural brilliance with the monstrous whirlwind, Madame Rosepettle. Indians used Buffalo Bill and the formal of a Wild West show to dramatize America's capacity for amnesia and the dangers of changing historical fact into fiction:...

A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 and has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version--tracks the investigation of this murder.

"Talley's Folly" shows one evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers, Sally Talley and Matt Friedman. Sally is from a conservative, small-town, wealthy family of bigoted Protestants, and Matt is a Jewish accountant twelve years older than Sally.