DOCUMENT RESUME El) 109 696 CS 202 188 ,AUTHOR' Mersand, Joseph, 'Ed. TITLE Guide to Play Selection; Select4ve Bibliography for Production and Study of godern,Plays. Third Edition. INSTITUTION' National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, PUB-DATE .75 NOT! 2944 AVAILABLE EROM,National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (Stock No. 19468, $5.95 nonmember, $5.75 member) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.76 HC-$14.59 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS *Annotated Bibliographies; *Drama; *Dramatics; *Literature Guides; Production Techniques; Re'sourc? Guides; *Selection;. Twentieth Century Literature IDENTIFIERS *Play SelectiOn ABSTRACT This selective bibliography for production and study of modern plays was compiled by the NCTE Liaison Committee with the Speech Communication Association and the Alierican Theatre AssociationThe introduction, "A Guide to Play Production," discusses general criteria of play selection and provides an overview of the collaborative process of produCing a play, focusing chiefly on the role of the director in giving conceptual unity to the production. Approximately 850, plays are described and arranged according to playwright in the section entitled "Guide to Play Selection." The appendixes-include listitgsof publishers, distributors, 'or agents who control amateur performance rights to plays described in the guide. Addresses of authors representing their own.corks, if known, are also given. The bibliography of anthologies and collections lists over 406 volumes -which contain ,plays listed in this guide. Included, are author and title indexes, as well as a ;topical index and an index arranged according to the number and sex - of the players required in each play. (LL) _ _ ***********4 ********************************************************** Docume ts acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * * materials not available from other sources. ERIC vakes'every-effort * * to obtain the, best copy available. nevertheless, items of marginal * *,reproducibility are often encountered and this affects Ihe quality It * of'the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not s * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the, best that can be made from the original. **************************************4*****#************************** . S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THISDOCUMENT o4AS BEEN REPRO DICED ExAcTLY AS RECEDED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANotA,ONOR.GN ATNC, T PO.NTSOF 1 E,4 OR OP.NOONS STATED DO NOT NCESSAR,,v REPRE Guide to Play Selection SE NT OFF CAL NATIONAL ,NST.TuTE OF EDUCATION POSE, ON OR POL,Cy, Tfard Edition A Selective Bibliography for Production and Study of Modern Plays Compiled b. the M.TE Liaison -Committee with the Speech Communication Association and the American Theatre Association. Joseph Mersand, Editorial Chairman t Distt buted jointly by the National CounciJ of leachers of English Urb- na, Illinois, and the R R Bowker, Conipan.y, New York 2 NCTE Editorial Board. Rit Nan! Corbin, Hunter College-HighSchool; Charlotte S. Huck, Ohio State University; Richard Lloyd-Jones, Univer- sity of Iowa; Roy C O'Donnell, University of Georgia; Owen Thomas, Indiana University; Robert F Hogan, NCTE, ex officio; Paul O'Dta, NCTE, ex officio.Consultant readerslean Jensen, Las Lomas 1-igh School, Walnut Creek. California; Mary Ellen Photiades, Universityof MontanaStaff editor- Duncan Streeter.Interior book design: /David Colley. Copyright 1934,0,1958. 1975 by the National Council of Teachers of EnglishAll rights reserved. Printed in fhe United Stat,of America A publication of the National Council of Teachers Inglish. 1"111, Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801.Hardbound copies distributed by the R. R Bowker Company (a,Xerox Education Company), 1180 Avenue of the Americas`, New Yotky New York 10036. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-33714 ISBN. 0-8141-1946-8 (paper) ISBN: 0-8352-08621(cloth) IPERMISStO0 ';0 REPRODUCETHIS COPY RIGHTED MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY National council of Teachers of English IA TO FRIG AND ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE NATIONAL IN STITUTE OF EDUCATION FURTHER REPRO DUCTION OUTSIDE THEERIC SYSTEM RE ()LIMES PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNER e / I. Mr The NCTE Li illSOTI Cominittke with the Speech Communication Association and the Amer( an1 heat re Association loseph Nfersand, York College of CUNY, Fditorial (.11airman Robert R Buseuk, Centenary (.ollege ofI ouisiana Ric hard ElGoldstone. ( its College of LUNY Francis Griffith, Hofstra Uniscrsity, Emeritus Manus konic.k,I ockI LIN ell State ( ollege. PCIIIM IN MILL RI( hard I.Loughlin, litolps ( oniniumus ( ()liege. Emeritus \ era %foss rs Robt.rts, Hunter ( oil( ge of CU NN NVilliarnF.. S(Idosser, ( aliforma State Unisersits, Noithridge Darssin 1 Tomei, I 'TM ersity of Iowa NIJerry NN'eiss, (ernes Citi. State.College Robert F Hogan. N(.TE, ex officio Other contributors 'Julian NIKaufman, Hoist ra Um. el sity Author's Roy Nfangione, lirookisii College of (.1..NY (,hristian IINfoe, Southern Illinois Unisersity fay E Raphael, Esariston, Illinois, Morns Schreiber. Ness lork Institute of "ethnology * 5-. = Contents t; I Preface vii A Cultic- to Play Production Guide to Play Selection Guide to Entries 21 Short Plays 23 Plays by Afro-Americans Ise 58 Full-Length Plays 73. Musical Plays 153 Television Plays 174 Appendixes Play Publishers and Agents 189 Anthologies and Collections of Plays 191 indexes Players Index 249 Topical Index 258 Author Index 277 Title Index 4 284 J vii Preface The publ'hanon of the Guide to Play Selection, third edition, represents a triumph orfaith, hope, ind charity over such obstacles as thoth.111lIS ofmiles betweenIllellibersof our committee, impossible schedule<, m our tespecuse institutions, and the usual drain on ,patience when a project takes almost a decade to complete When the letter of June 21. lqh7, arriscd designate g me the continuing chairman of the committee to update the (.mule,thought that it would be a matter of a sear or two orals before the task was completed. Well, actually eight scars base tiansimCd. I,ut they were worth the waiting, for what has resulted. thanks to the energies of our committee members and the guidance of the N(.I fditorial Board, is a far better reference work than the second editionLet me, like Flbabeth Barrett Browning, count the 1 hisisthe first reference work of'its kind prepared by repre- setttanss of three distinginshed'orgainiations interested in promoting all, the communication arts, and especially the lose and growth of'the theater Srtu the inauguration of the liaison committee, the Speech Association of \merit a has become the Speech Communication Associ'a- holt, but Ixec inise SecrtaiN William Work has eser remained with our minnuitec, to attend CNN% annual meeting aiitgive of his wisdom and counsel. I he \mei uan Ldmational Theatre Association, has become the Arnett( anI heave 'Association, a lid' ses eral exec utive secretaries have come and gone, butt their interest 105 never waned I he third edition features three new sections not found in the second"I he intKodtu non. Guide to Play Production" by Julian M Kaufman. elan asses /general criteria of play sclect.ion and provides an osersiessof the «Illaboiatise process of producing aplay, focusing chiefly on the role of the director in giving conceptual unity to the prexlintion"I he section on musical plays direets'its attention to the most popular of all theater forms in1rnerica, a genre that in our life- times has ads Atm! berm an emphasis solely on comedy to treatments of the most 'serums and significant socitil mmerns The unique section on plays by Afro- \inericans, specially written on request by Darwin T Tinnier, pros ides a selective, representat INC list of plays wiitten by black \mernans, m hiding dramas specifically designed for presentation to atidienies in black «Anmonitic's. In addition to atithOr: and title indexes, the third edition in- chutes an index arranged ac«Irdiorio the number and sex of the phsers required in each plas. and a topical indexAnthony Roy Man- gione graciously brought his knowledge of ethnic literature, to bear in the categorbation of plays has mg ethnic interest for neinuation in the topical tilde\ ,cIles work is especially of value in a time wIttn greater j atterition is paid to the contributions of the carious ethnic and national groups of our American culture. stt k U viii , Preface, Nearly.850 plays fie described, over 100 more than the second edition. To lend some structure to an otherwise formless list, these have been afranged accordingto playwrightThe bibliography of anthologies.i and collections, generously provided by Christian H. Moe and Jay E. Raphael, lists over 400 volumes containing plays described in this guide. Although this represents a smaller number of works than were found in the second edition, greater attention has .been paid to the selection of in-print. frequently paperbound editions Morris Schreiber contributed to the final updating of the Guide by amplifyirfg the section on television plays. Of the NCTE Committee on Playlist who prepared the second edition of the Guide to Play ,Selection in 1958, Francis Griffith, Marcus Konick, and M Jerry Weiss consented to serve on the liaison committee to prepare the third,signifying theirinterest' and devotion to the To the original committee there were many additions, in- . theater -i, cluding