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Four plays / by Dawn Powell ; edited with an introduction by Michael Sexton and Tim Page.

Title: Four plays / by Dawn Powell ; edited with an introduction by Michael Sexton and Tim Page.
Author: Powell, Dawn.
Publication: South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, c1999.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PS3531.O936 A6 1999	Off-site

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Description

454 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"From her college days onward, Dawn Powell, known primarily for her novels and her diaries and letters, dreamed of becoming a successful playwright. Indeed, over the course of four decades, she finished at least ten plays and was working on fashioning her novel, The Golden Spur into a musical comedy during her final illness. Only two of her plays were mounted during her lifetime, however. This volume contains both of those works - Big Night which was produced by the legendary Group Theater in 1933, and Jig Saw, which was staged by the Theater Guild the following year. These are fast-paced, blunt-spoken - and very funny - comedies that directly anticipate the hard-boiled satire of such novels as Turn, Magic Wheel and Angels on Toast.
Rounding out the book are two unpublished (and as yet unproduced) plays that Powell wrote in the late 1920s - the experimental, quasi-expressionist Women at Four O'Clock and a nostalgic bittersweet story of old New York, Walking Down Broadway, which director Erich von Stroheim would later adapt into the Hollywood film Hello, Sister!"--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Plays. Selections

Alternative Title

Plays.

Subject

Genre/Form

Drama

Contents

Big night -- Jig saw -- Women at four o'clock -- Walking down Broadway.

ISBN

1883642612 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99043314^

OCLC

42022411

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library