Best of
Plays

1973

A Little Night Music


Hugh Wheeler - 1973
    When the traveling actress performs in Fredrik's town, the estranged lovers' passion rekindles. This strikes a flurry of jealousy and suspicion between Desirée; Fredrik; Fredrick's wife, Anne; Desirée's current lover, the Count; and the Count's wife, Charlotte. Both men – as well as their jealous wives – agree to join Desirée and her family for a weekend in the country at Desirée's mother's estate. With everyone in one place, infinite possibilities of new romances and second chances bring endless surprises.

Not I


Samuel Beckett - 1973
    Short dramatic monologue written in 1972 (20 March to 1 April) by Samuel Beckett which was premiered at the "Samuel Beckett Festival" by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, New York (22 November 1972).

The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays


Alan Ayckbourn - 1973
    This brilliant comic trilogy details the amorous exploits of Norman, assistant librarian, whose one aim is to make the women of his life happy—these women being, as it happens, three sisters, one of them his wife, who can’t wear contact lenses because “life with Norman is full of unexpected eye movements.” Each play stands uproariously on its own yet interlocks with the others to form an ingenious Chinese puzzle of successive relations.

How Could I Not Be Among You?


Ted Rosenthal - 1973
    

Echoes: A Play In Two Acts


N. Richard Nash - 1973
    Richard NashFull Length, DramaCharacters: 2 male, 1 femaleInterior SetA young man and woman build a low keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world. The two characters search, at times agonizingly, to determine the difference between illusion and reality. The effort is lightened by moments of shared love and "pretend" games, like decorating Christmas trees that are not really there. The t

Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death


Melvin Van Peebles - 1973
    Peopled by jukies, whores, pimps, sweating workers and crooked cops, prisoners, love-lorn lesbians, drag queens and dreams, here is Melvin Van Peebles's tradition-shattering book!

Federal Theatre Plays


Federal Theatre Project - 1973
    

Time And Time Again: A Comedy


Alan Ayckbourn - 1973
    Peter, who works for Graham, brings his fiancee to the house and Graham, as usual, makes a bee-line for her. However, it is Mrs. Baker's brother, Leonard, to whom Joan strays. Leonard, poetic, a fumbler, who moons around holding conversations with the garden gnome, has always roused the bullying Graham's malice and scorn, who is horrified when he catches the younger man very much with Joan.2 women, 3 men

Elizabeth I & Other Plays


Paul Foster - 1973