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ARTHUR ARENT (1904 - 1972) |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Arthur Arent |
One Third Of A Nation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fairfax, Vir | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26785 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur Arent. Play debuted in 1938 at part of the WPA's Living Newspaper series. | |||||
Synopsis: | One-Third of a Nation is the story of the quest of "The Little Man"a clownish everymanwho simply wants a decent place to live for a reasonable rent. When he stumbles onto the stage, he becomes a part of a fantastical drama that begins with a devestating tenement house fire, and journeys through 250 years of New York real estate, depicted in 19 fast-paced scenes in the Living Newspaper's signature style: by turns comic and tragic, derived from thoroughly researched historical record, and always full of distinctly theatrical life. He meets landlords, street toughs, renting agents, and senators, and each teaches him something more about the world he has always lived in but never understood | |||||
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Power | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95651 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur Arent | |||||
Synopsis: | Billed at the time as 'A Thrilling Dramatization of Modern Industry', Power takes up a critical issue of the 1930s: whether electrical power was a commodity or a public good. Echoed in today's debates over health care and credit reform, the power struggle over the power industry raged before Congress, in municipal courts, under inquiry by the FTC, and through extensive PR campaigns. Power's 21 scenes are illustrative vignettes more than psychological studies, and complemented by visual projections and voiceovers. The play makes drama of a political struggle, articulating Byzantine corporate structures, statistical profiles, as well as actual contemporary events, such as a Newark, NJ, power failure affecting 1 million people and the battle to create the Tennessee Valley Authority. Powerwas created by the WPA's Federal Theater Project through the Living Newspaper Unit, established in 1935. While many of the Living Newspapers were written collaboratively, Power was penned by lead playwright Arthur Arent, based on months of research by 25 researchers, many of them unemployed journalists. FTP plays gave work of current cultural significance to thousands of theater artists and technicians during the Depression. | |||||
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