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Tag Archives: scripts
The Books: “Paradise Lost” (Clifford Odets)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Another Clifford Odets play – and this one is considered to be his best – Paradise Lost So far – the other plays I’ve mentioned have some kind of pretty heavy theme or plot. … Continue reading
The Books: “Till the Day I Die” (Clifford Odets)
Another entry for my Excerpt a Day: Another Clifford Odets play – Till the Day I Die. Odets wrote this to be a curtain-opener for Waiting for Lefty (excerpt here). Eventually it got its own production, opening in 1935. It’s … Continue reading
The Books: “Awake and Sing” (Clifford Odets)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Another Clifford Odets play – Awake and Sing Unlike Waiting for Lefty which is a series of vignettes, culminating in the taxi strike when all the different strands come together … Awake and Sing … Continue reading
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The Books: “Waiting for Lefty” (Clifford Odets)
Waiting for Lefty was an EXPLOSION, when it first was produced in the 1930s. [That original production is one of my top 10 moments I would LOVE to go back in time and witness, first hand.] It made Clifford Odets … Continue reading
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Tagged Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan, Harold Clurman, politics, scripts, Waiting for Lefty
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The Books: “Conversations on a Homecoming” (Tom Murphy)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next play on the script shelf: Conversations on a homecoming, from the great Irish playwright Tom Murphy. My dad turned me on to Tom Murphy, who is a major playwright, a major artist. You … Continue reading
The Books: “Tamburlaine” (Christopher Marlowe)
Next script on my script shelf: Tamburlaine the Great by the marvelous Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe fascinates, intrigues. There’s a new biography of him out, and I want to read it. Here’s an excerpt from Act IV, scene 2 of his … Continue reading
The Books: “After the Fall” (Arthur Miller)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next play on the script shelf: After the Fall: A Play in Two Acts (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller. This play, while not his best, is very near to my heart – because of … Continue reading
The Books: “Death Of a Salesman” (Arthur Miller)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller. This play needs no introduction. Although I will link to this a post where I excerpt Miller’s autobiography about the life-changing opening of the first … Continue reading
The Books: “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” (Martin McDonough)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next play on the script shelf: The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin Mcdonagh. Anyone who lived in New York in 1998 cannot forget the “Beauty Queen” frenzy which overtook the theatre scene here. … Continue reading
The Books: “The Blue Bird” (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next play on the script shelf is The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck, an old childhood favorite. Maeterlinck’s a fascinating guy – won the Nobel Prize in 1911. … Continue reading