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Anna Alice Chapin

ANNA ALICE CHAPIN

  
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Anna Alice Chapin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         At The Gates         Discords         Eagle's Mate, The         Every Day Fairy Book, The         Heart of Music, The         Jane         Konigskinder         Masters of Music         Mountain Madness         Nowadays Fairy Book, The         Spirit of the Sea, The         Story of the Rhinegold, The         Street-Car Mystery, The         Topsy Turvy Fairy         True Story of Humpty Dumpty, The: How He Was Rescued by Three Mortal Children in Make Believe Land         Wonder Tales from Wagner         Wotan, Siegfried, and Brunhilde
At The Gates

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At the Gates dates from and is based on the events of the same year when the Womens Freedom League picketed the House of Commons from July 5th to October 28th, 1909: an example of patient endurance which should go far to silence the foolish cry of hysteria as applied to the Suffrage Movement. Chapin was actually in prison when the play was first scheduled to be performed at the Albert Hall in December 1909. However, it was cancelled due to the lateness of the hour following a long programme. Based on the experience of a young womans 540-hour picket, it presents a series of encounters between her and various passers by, including: a male sympathiser, an embarrassed waiter, two well-disposed policemen ardently interested in politics, cynical about most of their rulers and one of them a great theatre-goer who likes serious drama. Others include: small boys and grown men who jeer; a drunk (who boasts that he has the vote while she does not); a seamstress (who works in a sweatshop and is battered by her husband) and who supports the suffragists as a means to gain the power, it is implied, to change her circumstances; an elderly, self-described womanly woman, who attacks the male sympathiser with her umbrella. The line: These Antis are so militant, spoken by the heroine, was added to the play between the submission of the manuscript to the Lord Chamberlains office and the plays publication. It is interesting dramaturgically in its attempt to give theatrical form to a durational experience and find a theatrical language to describe an experience of multiple brief encounters, rather than a defining dramatic collision of different viewpoints. The piece makes reference to the biblical Book of Esther comparing the arbitrary exercise of power by the tyrannical King Ahasuerus who ordered the slaughter of the Jews of Persia to that of the government of the day  but Ahasuerus was a gentleman. He did hold out his sceptre . . . He didnt keep her waiting either. The published play is rare and has attracted little critical attention

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Discords

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Eagle's Mate, The

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-     1914

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Every Day Fairy Book, The

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-     1915

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Heart of Music, The

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-     1906

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Jane

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-     1920

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Konigskinder

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-     1911

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Masters of Music

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Mountain Madness

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-     1917

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Nowadays Fairy Book, The

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-     25 Mar 1905

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Spirit of the Sea, The

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Story of the Rhinegold, The

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Street-Car Mystery, The

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Topsy Turvy Fairy

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-     1913

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True Story of Humpty Dumpty, The: How He Was Rescued by Three Mortal Children in Make Believe Land

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Wonder Tales from Wagner

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-     1898

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Wotan, Siegfried, and Brunhilde

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-     12 Mar 1905

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