Best of
Plays

1977

Plays 4: Betrayal / Monologue / One for the Road / Mountain Language / Family Voices / A Kind of Alaska / Victoria Station / Precisely / The New World Order / Party Time / Moonlight / Ashes to Ashes / Celebration


Harold Pinter - 1977
    

And The Soul Shall Dance


Wakako Yamauchi - 1977
    Written in 1977, the story involves a young Japanese American girl and her parents as they struggle to live in a white America during The Great Depression.

Rallying Cries


Eric Bentley - 1977
    Rallying Cries presents three of his best known works: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, successfully staged around the world and on television; The Recantation of Galileo Galilei; and the controversial From the Memoirs of Pontius Pilate, a work initially rejected as insufficiently Christian by its commissioning theater but then successfully produced in New York at the Actors Studio and American Jewish Theater.

Good Evening


Peter Cook - 1977
    A very funny show about some unlikely subjects, including a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, an in-depth interview with an unimpressed shepherd who witnessed the Nativity, and a French singer who misunderstands an Anglo-Saxon vulgarity and composes a song around it.

The Potman Spoke Sooth


David Fulk - 1977
    And answers it. Sort of. Well, not really.This farcical treatment of a traditional locked-house mystery has the characters questioning their own existence as they try to discover the identity of the true murderer.

Wild Oats


John O'Keeffe - 1977
    He wrote a number of farces, amusing dramatic pieces and librettos for pasticcio operas, many of which had great success.Wild oats: or, the strolling gentlemen. A comedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. By John O'Keefe, Esq. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The Guest: An Episode In The Life Of Eugène Marais


Athol Fugard - 1977
    Eugène Nielen Marais - poet, advocate, journalist, naturalist and one of the founders of Afrikaans literature - was, according to Robert Ardrey, 'the purest genius that the natural sciences have seen in this century'.In this screenplay of The Guest, Athol Fugard portrays Marais's agonizing months spent with the Meyer family on their isolated farm 'Steenkampskraal', in an attempt to cure himself of morphine addiction.Fugard, South Africa's leading playwright Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Blood Knot, The Island, Hello and Goodbye, Boesman and Lena, People are Living There) works here with award-winning director Ross Devenish who directed the internationally acclaimed film of Boesman and Lena.

Les Canadiens


Rick Salutin - 1977
    It ends in the Montreal Forum on the night of November 15, 1976, when Montreal Canadien fans turn a hockey game into an election victory rally for the indépendantiste Parti Québécois. In between, it is a play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor—and a play about hockey using Quebec and Canada as its setting. Les Canadiens was commissioned by and first performed at Centaur Theatre in Montreal in February, 1977. The book contains a preface by Ken Dryden, former goalie for the Montreal Canadiens, and an introduction on hockey, politics and theatre by Rick Salutin.