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THORNTON WILDER (1897 - 1975) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
Thornton Wilder. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at Oberlin, Yale (B.A. 1920) and Princeton (M.A. 1925), Thornton Wilder was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, which explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length plays, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Mr. Wilder's The Matchmaker was later adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! Wilder was a master of the one act play -- The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden and The Long Christmas Dinner were among his most celebrated titles -- and an outstanding practitioner of the mini or playlet form. Mr. Wilder also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, opera and film. His screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day. The genius of Thornton Wilder continues to resonate. In 1998 The Bridge of San Luis Rey was selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century, and the closing lines of this work were quoted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the memorial service for victims of the attacks on September 11, 2001. In 2006, Our Town,performed at least once each day somewhere in this country, received its world premiere as an opera. Mr. Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature. On April 17, 1997, the centenary of his birth, Mr. Wilder was honored by the United States Postal Service with a First-class stamp issued in Hamden, Connecticut, his home after 1930. He died there on December 7, 1975.
Plays by Thornton Wilder
Alcestiad, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Alcestaid and The Drunken Sisters" published by Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89943 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy; extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A retelling of the legend of Alcestiad who gave her life for her husband | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beaux' Stratagem, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89489 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | adapted by Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig from the play by George Farquhar | |||||
Synopsis: | The play tells the story of two young bucks who, having spent all their money by living too well, leave London and roam from town to town in search of love and fortune. In order to find a wealthy heiress for at least one of them, they pose as master and servant - exchanging roles from one town to the next. In Lichfield, Aimwell is the master and Archer the servant, and there they meet the lovely, wealthy Dorinda and her equally desirable sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Sullen. They set their caps for these women, but problems abound. Kate is married to a drunken sot who despises her; the innkeeper's saucy daughter, Cherry, has set her cap for Archer; Dorinda's mother, Lady Bountiful, mistakenly believes herself to be a great healer of the sick, and she guards her daughter like a dragoness; and a band of brigands plans to rob the house of Lady Bountiful that very night, putting all schemes in jeopardy. This is a play in the great tradition of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer and Sheridan's The Rivals and The School for Scandal. It is classic, formal, robust and hilarious. | |||||
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Bernice | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #89944 | |||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cement Hands | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #89945 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Childhood | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89946 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Whilst their parents are away the children play at being orphans | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Drunken Sisters, The | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Alcestaid and The Drunken Sisters" published by Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89947 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Apollo tricks the Fates by telling them that his wine flagons contain Aphrodite's beauty drink | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Happy Journey To Trenton And Camden | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89948 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The mother and father and two of their children drive to a married daughter who lives in Camden | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In Shakespeare And The Bible | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #89949 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Infancy | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89950 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The nannies in the park really have no idea about babies | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jehanne | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136605 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Leviathan | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1559361484 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135945 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Long Christmas Dinner, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89951 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Ninety years of Christmas dinners at the Bayard home | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Love and How To Cure It | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Wilder Collected Plays volume One" published by Theatre Communications Group | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1559361316 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89952 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The actors are having a meal on stage after the performance when the rejected lover of the young dancer arrives with a gun | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lucrece | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belasco Theatre, New York | 20 Dec 1932 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133249 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Andre Obey. Original title "Le Viol De Lucrece" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marriage We Deplore | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136179 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A blue blood Boston family contemplate the horrors of marrying beneath themselves | |||||
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Matchmaker, The | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89953 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation, Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Johann Nestroy | |||||
Synopsis: | A rich merchant in need of a wife hires Dolly Levi, the Matchmaker, to find him one. Hello, Dolly. . ... | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Merchant of Yonkers, The | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Harper 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127978 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Johann Nestroy | |||||
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Message, The | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136606 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mozart and the Gray Steward | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136607 | |||
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Nascuntar Poetae | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136608 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Now The Servant's Name Was Malchus | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136609 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Our Town | ||
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| 1st Published: | Coward McCann 1938 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89954 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Penny That Beauty Spent | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136903 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prosperpina and the Devil | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder volume Two" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138083 | |||
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Pullman Car Hiawatha | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89955 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 18 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The lives of the passengers on a train | |||||
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Queens of France, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89956 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A con man convinces women that they are the rightful heir to the French throne. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ringing Of Doorbells, A | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #89957 | |||
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Rivers Under The Earth, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #89958 | |||
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Seven Ages Of Man | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Short Plays volume One" published by Theatre Communications Group 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138675 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Skin of Our Teeth, The | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89959 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Antrobus family survive the Ice Age, a dozen or so wars, the pox, floods, fire, locusts and the movies | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Someone From Assisi | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Wilder Collected Plays volume One" published by Theatre Communications Group | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1559361316 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89960 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Francis bears the burden of sin | |||||
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Such Things Only Happen In Books | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89961 | |||
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Genre: | short plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | an evening of short plays by Thornton Wilder. The evening includes Such Things Only Happen in Books, in which a domestic life is slowly unwrapped to reveal the complexities at the heart of all families; Cement Hands, about an uncle who attempts to explain to his niece the precariousness of marrying a tight-fisted young fellow; and The Angel That Troubled the Waters, which shows the healer's pain, and how his suffering makes him most human. Also included are In Shakespeare and the Bible and Now the Servant's Name was Malchus. | |||||
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Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons | ||
| 1st Produced: | Keen Company (New York, NY, United States) | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103579 | |||
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Genre: | 60-75 min Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 3 females, 2 either (6-32 actors possible: 3-17 males, 3-16 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | This anthology by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Thornton Wilder is a collection of twenty-two very short plays, three of which are published here for the very first time. These snapshots of the creative spirit at play explore a variety of complex characters that range from the ordinary to the biblical, the haunted to the mystical. From the tale of a conflicted composer with a strangely familiar tune stuck in his head (The Song of Maria Bentedos), to a pair of newlyweds who find themselves bizarrely affected by the color of their hotel's tea room (Flamingo Red: A Comedy in Danger), all these tales -- many told with great wit and humor -- ask the thought-provoking questions of mortality, morality, and faith that Thornton Wilder is famous for asking. | |||||
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Wreck On The Five-Twenty-Five, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89962 | |||
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Youth | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89963 | |||
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