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ROBERT E SHERWOOD (1896 - 1955) |
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Plays by Robert E Sherwood |
Abe Lincoln In Illinois | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31954 | |||
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Genre: | Biographical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 25 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | of the 25 men, several bit parts and of the 7 women, 2 or 3 are minor roles | |||||
Notes: | Pulitzer Prize-winning play, and one of the most famous plays in American theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | The play shows in a series of scenes the critical years of Lincoln's early manhood up to the moment of his election as president. We see the backwoodsman, a failure at shopkeeping, but a great favorite with friends and neighbors, slowly groping forward through the troubled years in Springfield, at last beginning to realize the great destiny before him. | |||||
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Idiot's Delight | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Best Plays of 1936 - 1937" published by Dodd Mead | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31955 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 10 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A fast-moving story about a group of Europeans and Americans caught in a mountain hotel on the outbreak of a world war, this remarkable play is a commentary on the greed, fear, stupidity and idealism of mankind | |||||
Synopsis: | A young English couple on their honeymoon, a German scientist, a French munitions magnate, the inscrutable Irene, and the vulgar but lovable American Harry Van are thrown together in a small winter resort in the Alps. For a short time they are forced to depend upon their own resources under threat of an air-raid, which at the last descends upon the few who are left. The play throws into ironic relief the individual human being who, having brought upon himself the obscene idiocy of wholesale destruction by war, wakes up to find that he can do nothing more than make a futile gesture against the forces he has set in action. | |||||
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Petrified Forest, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31956 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | of the 18 men, several are bit parts | |||||
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Synopsis: | Gabby Maple is a young girl who wants to see the world, but necessity compels her to work as a waitress in the middle of the Arizona desert. Out of the desert comes Alan Squier, a disillusioned sophisticate on his way to the Petrified Forest, which to him symbolizes self-destruction, the only answer he can find to living in a pointless world. He pauses at the restaurant to sympathize with Gabby's dreams, then decides to help her realize them by leaving her his life insurance. When the restaurant empties, gangsters, looking for a hideout, enter and take possession. Alan amuses himself by philosophizing with the criminals, who in the end oblige the suicidal Alan by shooting him. The desperadoes make their escape as Gabby contemplates the death of Alan and the fact that she'll have to bury him, where he wanted to die, in the Petrified Forest. | |||||
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Reunion In Vienna | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31957 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Elena is married to Dr. Anton Drug, a Viennese psychoanalyst. But in the golden days before the fall of the Empire, she had a love affair with Prince Rudolf Maximilian. After World War I and the expulsion of the aristocracy, Elena developed into a responsible, mature woman, and a devoted wife. A group of her former cronies, some of whom have been living in poverty and exile, return to Vienna to attend a party to which Rudolf is (surreptitiously) invited. Elena's old friends press her to attend the party. But she refuses, saying the past means nothing to her, but Anton thinks she should go, if only to prove to herself that she has left the past behind. Rudolf, who eeks out an existence abroad as a taxi driver, arrives incognito and immediately sends for Elena. Elena arrives, and for a moment an illusion of gaiety is established. Rudolf makes violent love to Elena, she runs home, and he follows her, determined to renew their affair. But Elena, though caught in the excitement of old memories and still attracted to Rudolf, knows he belongs to the past, and her husband and the present is the better of the two. But she allows Rudolf to hide in her apartment while Anton arranges for him to escape from the country. The experiment of trying to renew a past that no longer has meaning has been successfully carried out. | |||||
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Road To Rome | ||
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| 1st Published: | Scribners 1928 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138667 | |||
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Small War On Murray Hill | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31958 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | of the 10 men, 8 are non speaking and of the 8 women, 5 are non speaking | |||||
Notes: | The last play by one of America's outstanding playwrights | |||||
Synopsis: | Chapman describes, "Sherwood let his frequently impish imagination toy with an item in the history booksthe one in which Mrs. Robert Murray beguiles British General Sir William Howe into tarrying in her home instead of pushing on with his redcoats and his Hessians and driving a wedge between the armies of General Isaac Putnam and George Washington. Thanks to his lady's enticements, Putnam was able to join Washington on the Harlem River under cover of night. According to Sherwood, Mrs. Murray's delaying tactics include a cocktail made of Holland gin and sherry called a stone wall, an excellent lunch prepared by a Creole cook, some intelligent conversation, a dinner featuring steamed clams, plenty of good brandy and, one suspects, finally her own beautiful self. . ." | |||||
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There Shall Be No Night | ||
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| 1st Published: | Scribner 1940 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31959 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 | ||
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| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. It is a proclamation of faith in the courage of free men everywhere, and the essential soundness of Democracy. The principal setting is a living-room, but there are two other, very simple bare rooms, one in a hotel and one in a small schoolhouse. | |||||
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Waterloo Bridge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fulton Theatre, New York | 1930 | ||||
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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 | #94496 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 | ||
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