The Resource Four plays : A sense of detachment ; The end of me old cigar ; Jill and Jack ; A place calling itself Rome, John Osborne ; [introduction by Helen Osborne]
Four plays : A sense of detachment ; The end of me old cigar ; Jill and Jack ; A place calling itself Rome, John Osborne ; [introduction by Helen Osborne]
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- 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 Rounding out the book are two unpublished (and as yet unproduced) plays that Powell wrote in the late 1920s - the experimental, quasi-expressionist Women at Four O'Clock and a nostalgic bittersweet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!"--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Four plays : A sense of detachment ; The end of me old cigar ; Jill and Jack ; A place calling itself Rome
- Title
- Four plays
- Title remainder
- A sense of detachment ; The end of me old cigar ; Jill and Jack ; A place calling itself Rome
- Statement of responsibility
- John Osborne ; [introduction by Helen Osborne]
- Language
- eng
- 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!"--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- ZCU
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- 1929-1994
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- Osborne, John
- Dewey number
- 822.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6065.S18
- LC item number
- A6 2000
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- 1929-1994
- 1929-1994
- 1929-1994
- 1929-1994
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- Osborne, Helen
- Osborne, John
- Osborne, John
- Osborne, John
- Osborne, John
- Series statement
- Modern playwrights
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- American drama
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- Four plays : A sense of detachment ; The end of me old cigar ; Jill and Jack ; A place calling itself Rome, John Osborne ; [introduction by Helen Osborne]
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- 53950878
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- 21 cm
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- 216 pages
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- 9781840020748
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