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Author
Series
Spotlight dramabook ; SD3
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
Describes the prenatal development of identical and fraternal twins and discusses attitudes twins develop about each other.
4) Billy Budd
Author
Series
Spotlight dramabook ; SD4
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
A young sailor is sentenced to be hanged for inadvertently striking and killing an officer. He faces death with a blessing for the benevolent captain who is forced to carry out his execution.
Author
Series
Spotlight dramabook ; SD6
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy set in a town that is regularly attacked by arsonists. Disguised as door-to-door salesmen, they talk their way into people's homes and settle down in the attic, where they set about planning the destruction of the house.
Author
Series
Spotlight dramabook ; SD8
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
"Balm in Gilead" is a drama set in a New York city "greasy spoon" cafe frequented by dealers, junkies, hustlers, prostitutes, the cafe staff, and Darlene, a naive young woman new to the city. First performed off-off-Broadway in 1965, it was a critical and commercial success, and has been revived several times, most recently in 2010-11."Ludlow Fair" is a story of two young women who share an apartment together: Rachel is glamorous and fast-moving,...
Author
Series
Spotlight dramabook ; SD11
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
This is a play within a play. The cook has been murdered but her employers seem to be indifferent. Her son is in a seminary and in distress. The maid is pregnant. The valet is philandering. The playwright, the central character in this play, says that he has lost his touch and is suffering writer's block. The Harvard Crimson 8/1/1967 noted: "The thick plot involves murder, rape, abortion, white slavery, and class struggle. And yet the author-actor,...
10) Saved
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Saved is a play by Edward Bond which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 1965. The play itself is set in London during the 1960s. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates.
12) Indians: a play
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill & Wang
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
"A Wild West show in which Buffalo Bill plays himself provides the focal point of this uninhibited, lively, yet basically poignant drama that recreates the tragic situation of the American Indian at the end of the frontier period." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
A 1968 satirical play on the British Empire by the English playwright Edward Bond. It is a political parable set in Japan in the Edo period. It deals with the poet Basho and the changing political landscape over about 35 years.
16) Inquest
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
A play about the trial of the United States v. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
"Antoine de St. Flour is dead when the curtain rises. A famous French playwright, he has collected under the terms of his will a motley assemblage of people to mourn him. Their grief, curelty, and humor become his tools, for, it turns out, they are the characters of his last play, performing for him alone their reaction to his death." (back cover)
Author
Series
Spotlight dramabook ; 1223
Publisher
Hill & Wang
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
A play dramatizing the philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, and his stand concerning civil disobedience. He refused to pay taxes owing to his disapproval of the Mexican War. For his act of protest he was sent to jail.