October 1, 1990
To Be Read Aloud, Preferably with a Stranger
PART ONE. MALE & FEMALE female: i thought i would see you. i’ve been thinking how you don’t— male: who are you? female: -remember me. do you remember- male: who are you? female: -seeing me and […]
July 1, 1983
Fire at Luna Park: Transcriptions for Four Instruments in Five Scenes
To Nora, my mother The Cast ZAR In scene one, a prosperous middle-aged businessman, wears a white fedora and a trim suit and waistcoat. LEV In scene one, a middle-aged sign painter, […]
July 1, 1980
The Story
Characters Adam Eve Place The Earth Time SCENE ONE Eleven years after creation. SCENE TWO Several years later. SCENE THREE Several months later. Scene One The place is the […]
January 1, 1980
Sightlines
This play was initially given a staged reading in 1978 at the National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theatre Center. It was produced for the stage in 1979 […]
July 1, 1979
A Piece of Monologue
Curtain. Faint diffuse light. Speaker stands well off centre downstage audience left. White hair, white nightgown, white socks. Two metres to his left, same level, same height, standard lamp, skull-sized […]
March 1, 1968
A Stand in the Mountains
PREFACE For readers of the play (and it is for playgoers who also read plays that I care most) I include this preface, which is a sort of history of […]
November 1, 1967
Lights of Bohemia: Esperpento
VALLE-INCLAN (1866-1936) There are good reasons why it is difficult to separate Ramón María del Valle-Inclán’s life from his art. Born in Galicia under the less sonorous, hence less satisfactory, […]
July 1, 1958
The Life of Confucius
From the German. (A scene from a posthumous fragment) Author’s Note: The play The Life of Confucius has been written for a theatre of child-actors. It may appear that one […]
January 1, 1956
Tennessee Day in St. Louis
A Comedy ACT I In the big game room of the Tolliver house in St. Louis Miss Betty Pettigru and Mrs. Florence Blalock are occupied with a jig-saw puzzle. The […]
October 1, 1953
The Bearded Virgin and the Blind God
The Argument It is told of the only bearded female saint that, despite her conversion to Christianity, she was destined by her pagan father to marry a pagan husband. Praying […]
April 1, 1946
The Caucasian Circle of Chalk
From the German. {EDITORS’ NOTE—The new Brecht play is again in Epic Theatre, the form originated by this playwright. In the Prologue we are in the Caucasus at that […]
April 1, 1943
The Key
Scene I (It is not easy at night to reach the house of Avelino the rag-picker, for the neighborhood is unimproved and there is neither street nor road nor path. […]