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PHILIP C LEWIS
Nationality: USA
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Philip C Lewis's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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American Dame, The Mirror Under the EagleAmerican Dame, The
Synopsis:
the author describes a "play/out" as "an entertainment where actors announce a theme and then play it out." In this case the theme is the saga of American Womanhood set forth through material drawn from a wide range of sources. the general format is a series of contiguous skits and readings, done without scenery and employing only the "simplest of props and snatches of costumes." In setting forth his study of American Womanhood (and how she got to be what and where she is) the author begins at the beginning - with eve and the apple. From this earliest hint of what was to come he moves on, in historical sequence, through biblical and Elizabethan times and, drawing closer to home, to the lot of Indian squaws and Puritan and Colonial ladies. Supplementing his own sprightly imagination with vivid excerpts from journals, biographies, letters, plays, newspapers, sermons, and even trial extracts he constructs a well-defined and amusing picture of his ever changing yet always intriguing subject. as times (and mores)
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the Author describes A "play/out" As "an entertainment where Actors Announce A theme And then play it out."
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1963 -
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Play/out
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: cameo to 20 parts
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1st Produced:
Dallas Theater Center, TX, USA >>> 1961-1962 Season
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