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Maxwell Anderson

MAXWELL ANDERSON  (1888 - 1959)

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  


( b. Dec 15, 1888 atlantic, Pa, USA - d. Feb 28, 1959 Stamford, CT, USA )

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 Anne Of The Thousand Days         Bad Seed         Barefoot In Athens         Both Your Houses         Buccaneer, The         Candle In The Wind         Day The Money Stopped, The         Elizabeth The Queen         Eve Of St Mark         Feast Of Ortolans, The         First Flight         Gods Of The Lightning         Golden Six, The         Gypsy         High Tor         Joan Of Lorraine         Joan's Voices         Journey To Jerusalem         Key Largo         Knickerbocker Holiday         Lost In The Stars         Mary Of Scotland         Masque Of Kings, The         Masque Of Pedagogues, The         Masque Of Queens, The         Miracle Of The Danube, The         Night Over Taos         Outside Looking In         Richard And Ann         Saturday's Children         Second Overture         Star Wagon, The         Storm Operation         Truckline Cafe         Valley Forge         What Price Glory?         White Desert         Wingless Victory, The         Winterset

Anne Of The Thousand Days

Synopsis:
This beautiful presentation of the story of Henry VIII and anne Boleyn is played against the well-known historical background of the Court of Henry, and the arrangement of the present acting version follows that used for the Broadway production. as a matter of fact, there is almost no scenery, and the various scenes are played within a single setting in which lights and a half-dozen articles of furniture are all that are used

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Shubert Theatre, NY    1948

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1950   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Romantic Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Bad Seed

Synopsis:
The scene is a small southern town where Colonel and Christine Penmark live with their daughter, Rhoda. Little Rhoda Penmark is the evil queen of the story. On the surface she is sweet, charming, full of old-fashioned graces, loved by her parents, admired by all her elders. But Rhoda's mother has an uneasy feeling about her. When one of Rhoda's schoolmates is mysteriously drowned at a picnic, Mrs. Penmark is alarmed. For the boy who was drowned was the one who had won the penmanship medal that Rhoda felt she deserved!

Notes:
from William March's novel

1st Produced:
46th Street Theatre, New York    03 Jan 1955

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1956   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  1 small girl

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Barefoot In Athens

Synopsis:
The playwright takes us through the period shortly before Socrates' enemies bring charges against him of corrupting the youth and treason against the state. The wife and sons of the philosopher are treated in a new and original manner, and Xantippe is shown to be something more than the shrew tradition has made of her. There is a tender husband, but a real understanding of the principles for which he gave up his life. There are charming scenes involving a king of Sparta and his efforts to kidnap the philosopher and bring him to his own capital. The climax is based on one of the greatest trials in the history of the world, where Socrates sets forth his deep faith in democracy

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-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Both Your Houses

Synopsis:
a naive and idealistic young teacher gets elected as a senator. He is plunged into the shady world of politics

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Royale Theatre, NY    1933

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Buccaneer, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Plymouth Theatre, NY    1925

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Candle In The Wind

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Day The Money Stopped, The

Synopsis:
The law offices of Morrow and Morrow in a Connecticut town. Not so long ago

Notes:
from novel by Brendan Gill. 4 previews performances only

1st Produced:
Belasco Theatre, NY    1958

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Elizabeth The Queen

Maxwell Anderson
Political entanglements and tragic outcome of love afair between Elizabeth I and earl of Essex.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Guild Theatre, NY    1930

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Four Verse Plays by Maxwell anderson" published by Harcourt Brace 1959   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Verse Drama

Parts:
Male:  25            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Eve Of St Mark

Synopsis:
a group of Gis from just before Pearl Harbour to fighting the Japanese

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cort Theatre, New York    1942

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company 1943   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Feast Of Ortolans, The

Synopsis:
Dinner party of nobles is interrupted by outbreak of french revolution

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Smith, B and others, eds, a treasury of non-royalty one-act plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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First Flight

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Plymouth Theatre, NY    1925

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Gods Of The Lightning

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Harold Hickerson

1st Produced:
Little Theatre, NY    1928

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  24            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Golden Six, The

Synopsis:
as told by Judith Crist in the New York Herald-Tribune; "THE GOLDEN SIX is a colorful and cynical account of the four Caesars who ruled from 27 B.C. to 54 a.D., stopping short of Nero. . .The 'golden six' are the grandsons and step-grandsons of augustus Caesar, who hopes to choose one as his heir. all but the limping and stuttering Claudius are handsome and heroic, and all six are staunch outspoken republicans opposed to their grandfather's consolidation of power and emergence as Emperor. augustus' wife, Livia, plays the doting grandmother and the loyal spouse. . .By the end of act I we know Livia for what she is. Two of the grandsons have been murdered and a third banished on perjured testimony." Livia poisons augustus, having first forced him to name her son as his successor. Then she insists that Tiberius name Caligua, rather than his own son, as his successor. The Empire goes from bad to worse and Caligua comes to an untidy end, his power-mad tactics eventually bringing his own destruction. at the end of the

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York    1958

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1961   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  9            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Gypsy

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Klaw Theatre, NY    1929

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Best Plays of 1928 - 1929" published by Dodd Mead 1929   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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High Tor

Maxwell Anderson
Towering above the Hudson River stands a magnificent headland, High Tor, which has been known to river folk ever since Hudson first sailed up the river. Some years ago a company mined High Tor, leaving only a false front. Now High Tor may meet with the same fate. Van Dorn, young heir to High Tor, is about to lose his rights to a double-dealing firm of real estate men. Van Dorn meets Judith, who wants him to leave High Tor and live in New York, but this he does not wish to do. Complications arise from a bank robbery in a neighboring town and the appearance of the robbers on High Tor. This is further complicated by the introduction of the ghosts of the Dutch crew of Hudson's lost ship "Onrust," with a resulting duel of wits between the conflicting groups

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theatre, NY    1937

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in anderson, M. Four verse plays
Dramatists Play Service, NY   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Romantic Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Joan Of Lorraine

Synopsis:
Most persons are familiar with the story of Joan of arc, so it is necessary only to say that this is a play within a play, the outer play (as it were) showing a group of actors in rehearsal on a bare stage, preparing to produce a Joan of arc play. The story of Joan's visions and pilgrimage to court, her restoring faith to the French and the victory she wins, are beautifully dramatized. But anderson has woven into the Joan story a parallel action, which takes place outside the Joan play proper, in which he shows the meaning of faith today and the necessity of believing in something. The actress who plays Joan claims that the role should show her never compromising her ideals, and she is ready to leave the cast because she thinks the part and the direction of herself shows Joan doing just that. But she learns, from her director and fellow players, that life is a series of compromises, and that she herself, as an actress, like the historical Joan, can and should give in on small things in order to achieve the gr

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1946

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Romantic Drama

Parts:
Male:  18            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Joan's Voices

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written by Jean Anouilh, Maxwell Anderson, George Bernard Shaw

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Malverne Players

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Journey To Jerusalem

Synopsis:
The dramatist has used as background the simple New Testament narrative covering the appearance of Jesus in Jerusalem and his talk with the priests. The youth's wisdom and his extraordinary prophetic power in seeing the implications of current political and ethical problems create a drama of extraordinary scope and power. Jesus' ideas and acts, according to the author, are shaped by him in an attempt to answer some of the problems of world dictatorship

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1940

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  27            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Key Largo

Synopsis:
On a rocky hilltop in Spain four young American men, fighting for the Loyalist cause, face certain death if they remain to cover a retreat. King McCloud, their leader, surprises the others by deciding to pull out while he can still save himself. He orders the others to go, but they refuse, preferring to die than give in to tyranny and oppression. King flees, leaving the others to face the oncoming guns. The story concerns King's wanderings and his efforts to assuage his conscious for his cowardice. On a wharf in Key Largo he seeks the father and sister of one of his companions. Confession to them and their forgiveness will bring him peace, he thinks. There, in a swift-moving drama of gambling, treachery and murder, he is again faced with the necessity of choosing between death and escape. This time he chooses death to save an innocent man and to protect the honor of the girl he had grown to love; and in dying, he wins his own victory.

Notes:
This was the basis for the movie of the same name.

1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York    27 Nov 1939

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  18            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Knickerbocker Holiday

Maxwell Anderson
Broek considered a ne'er do well by his beloved's father gets into trouble. He is just about to be hung when the new governor of New amsterdam - Peter Stuyvesant arrives. Stuyvesant rescues Broek and later reveals that he intends to turn New amsterdam into what would be called today a fascist state

Notes:
Book And Lyrics By: Maxwell Anderson; Music By: Kurt Weill

1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York    19 Oct 1938

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
anderson House, Washington D C 1938   -

Music:
Original cast recording: aEI (007)

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lost In The Stars

Maxwell Anderson
about an african Black preacher's search for his wayward son

Notes:
Written by Maxwell Anderson And Alan Paton. Music by Kurt Weill. Lyrics by Maxwell Anderson & Alan Paton. Based on the book "Cry Beloved Country" by Alan Paton

1st Produced:
Music Box Theater, New York    30 Oct 1949

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Hewes, H. ed. Famous American plays of the 1940's   -

Music:
Original cast recording: MCa (10302)

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Genre:
adaptation Musical

Parts:
Male:  26            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Mary Of Scotland

Maxwell Anderson
The author has chosen the six years that began when nineteen year old Mary set foot on her unruly land as queen and ended when the last ray of hope faded with the sunset she watched from the window of her prison. It presents her as more than a puppet moving through a pedant's world. Mary is portrayed as a star crossed girl seeking only to live and love and rule and worship as she pleases, bewildered by the intrigue which closed slowly in on her. Elizabeth is pictured as an older, crafty and ambitious queen seeking to remove from her path a gracious, romantic and religious rival.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
alvin Theatre, NY    1933

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in anderson, M. Four verse plays
Samuel French, NY, 2000   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Verse Drama

Parts:
Male:  22            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Masque Of Kings, The

Synopsis:
The unsolved mystery the violent deaths of the Crown Prince of austria and his sweetheart, Marie Vetsera, have led novelists, historians and playwrights to construct fantastic theories. The known facts in the case are pure drama in themselves, but in THE MaSQUE OF KINGS Mr. anderson, while preserving the tragic and romantic elements, has added the beauty of language and characterization, and a philosophical viewpoint that makes his play unique. His chief contribution is Rudolph's abortive attempt to seize the government from his father, the Emperor, and the Prince. The human side of the story is used by the author as the basis for a magnificent discussion on dictatorship and democracy which gives this work its universal appeal

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Shubert Theatre, NY    1936

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Masque Of Pedagogues, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "North Dakota Quarterly", Spring, 1957   -

Music:
-

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-

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Masque Of Queens, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
anderson House Pub, 1987   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Miracle Of The Danube, The

Synopsis:
a miracle wrought by apparition of Jesus Christ frees political prisoners

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   in The Best Short plays 1957

Music:
-

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Genre:
Radio Play

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Night Over Taos

Synopsis:
During the U.S.-Mexican War, which took place from 1846 to 1848, Mexico lost nearly half of its territory, including what is now the state of New Mexico. Night Over Taos is the true story about a Mexican freedom fighter, Pablo Montoya, who in 1847 led a bloody and ultimately futile siege to protect New Mexico from being ceded to the United States

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
49th Street Theatre, NY    1932

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Eleven Verse Plays 1929 - 1939" published by Harcourt Brace 1940   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Outside Looking In

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Greenwich Village Theatre, NY    1925

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Richard And Ann

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
McFarland & Company, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Saturday's Children

Maxwell Anderson
examines the marital problems of a young couple

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Booth Theatre    26 Jan 1927

Organisations:
The actors Theatre

1st Published:
Longmans Green 1927   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Second Overture

Synopsis:
In a cellar in a Russian city a group of refugees await the coming of the official who is to decide their fate. among them are a princess and her two young daughters; a distinguished lawyer; a lad of twenty; a former officer in the army; a bishop; and an exile escaped from the Siberian mines. They have committed no crime, but know they are marked for execution by the revolutionaries. Gregor, the former exile, learning the name of the Commissar, assures the others they need not fear. He knew fought beside him in a former revolution, and his word will surely be sufficient to free them all. When the Commissar comes, however, he is deaf to Gregor's pleas. The group is to die-all but Gregor, who may come with the Commissar. But Gregor refuses, and then, through daring ruse, he frees his fellow refugees, but he remains to face the firing squad.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Short Play One act

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Star Wagon, The

Synopsis:
The scene is a small city in Ohio, and the chief characters are Stephen Minch, an inventor who works for the joy of inventing; his wife, Martha; and his assistant, Hanus Wicks. For thirty years the Minch family has lived uneventfully in the same city, and Hanus has lived with them. Their routine existence is blasted by a marvelous invention of Stephen's, through which various characters can return to their youth, and there enact not only what really happened, but also what might have been. The old bicycle shop, seen in 1902; the wonder and skepticism of people at the "horseless buggy"; the picnic by the lake and the choir practice scene in the church-carry one back into the romantic past. Finally, Stephen, Martha and Hanus return to the present wiser, richer in experience and more happily adjusted than before.

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1st Produced:
Empire Theatre, NY    1937

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Fantasy

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Storm Operation

Synopsis:
The story tells how an American soldier buys an arab woman and how through the understanding and sympathy of this woman the Americans are enabled to take advantage of the enemy. There is another love story that runs throughout the play, and these two threads of plot bind together a work that reveals the fundamental simplicity and ultimate idealism o f the American fighting man.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  18            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Truckline Cafe

Synopsis:
The main plot revolves around tow couples. anne Carruth, thinking her husband dead in a prison camp, became involved with another man, only to learn that her husband still lives. She becomes a waitress in the cafe in an attempt to lose her identity. Her husband, who has had his share of romantic conflict, finds her there and finally persuades her into the belief that the broken threads of their marriage can be knit into a new beginning with the horrors of the interlude erased. The other young husband, suspecting his wife guilty of an indiscretion with one of his buddies, learns the truth of his suspicions in the cafe and in blind emotion their lives end in tragedy. against these two stories are etched brief character studies and bits of comedy which add to the portrait of life in Truckline Cafe.

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1st Published:
Procenium Press, 1986   -

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  13            Other:  -

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Valley Forge

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Guild Theatre, NY    1934

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays by Maxwell anderson" published by Washington Square Press 1962   -

Music:
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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  2            Other:  -

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What Price Glory?

Synopsis:
an indictment of war revealed through experiences of some soldiers in World War I

Notes:
by Maxwell Anderson And Laurence Stallings

1st Produced:
Plymouth Theatre, NY    05 Sep 1924

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "The Best Plays Of 1924 - 1925" published by Dodd Mead 1925   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  26            Female:  1            Other:  -

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White Desert

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Princess Theatre, NY    18 Oct 1923

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Genre:
Verse Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wingless Victory, The

Synopsis:
Nathaniel, a sea captain who left Salem penniless, returns wealthy after a seven-year absence. With one exception the pleasure of the puritanical members of his family is marred when they discover he has brought a Malay wife and their two children back with him. Deeply as he loves Oparre, the princess who has shared danger and misfortune with him, Nathaniel cannot but feel the invisible finger of scorn pointed at him by the townspeople, or avoid hearing their whispered comments on his unusual alliance. For Oparre's sake he lends them money to consolidate his social position, but they find this a weapon to be used against him. The travel of the man's soul when faced with a sudden choice between dishonor and the loss of his property or the loss of his dark-skinned family, and the magnificent self-sacrifice of the woman who has risked all she has for love have been clearly and forcefully presented.

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1st Produced:
Empire Theatre, NY    1936

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Modern Drama", Ginn, Boston, Massachusetts, 1963   -

Music:
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Genre:
Verse Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Winterset

Maxwell Anderson
Mio, believing that his father was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, pursues his long search for proof of his innocence. Following new evidence, his path crosses that of Miriamne, a strange creature who lives with her family in the shadow of a towering bridge. The young people are drawn together through the tragedy of Mio's father, and the boy's bitterness prevents each from giving himself wholly to the other. Mio must first recover his self respect and the right to love. His problem is complicated when it is learned that Miriamne's brother, Garth, might have testified at the trial and cleared the accused man, but feared to do so because his own life would have been endangered. In the midst of Mio's efforts there appears the figure of the unbalanced judge, who sentenced the victim, in search of new evidence to convince him that his decision was just. Miriamne, loyal to her family and in spite of her love for Mio, helps Garth conceal a murder the discovery of which would have saved Mio's faith,

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1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theatre, NY    1935

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in anderson, M. Four verse plays
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998   -

Music:
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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  3            Other:  -

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