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Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. This one-act social satire was first performed October 7, 1919 at the Maitland Playhouse, 332 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on a bill with three other one-act plays. [1] The San Francisco Chronicle remarked that it "gayly lampoons the question of dinner entertainments". [1]
Humble Boy is a play inspired by Hamlet.In an online review, the scope of the play is addressed as follows: "Charlotte Jones knows her Stoppard, her Hamlet, her Ayckbourn, and among other things perhaps the fourth book of Virgil's Georgics on the subject of Aristaeus's bees".
Fairview is a 2018 comedy play written by Jackie Sibblies Drury.The play was co-commissioned by Berkeley Rep and Soho Repertory Theatre. [1] The play follows a middle class African-American family as they prepare for a birthday dinner for their grandmother only to be watched by four white people.
The play received Obie Awards for Best New American Play (sharing it with Baker's The Aliens) [3] Performance, Ensemble and Directing (Sam Gold). [ 4 ] The play was nominated for the Drama Desk Award , Outstanding Play and Outstanding Director of a Play, and the cast was awarded a special Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performances.
J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for Job), a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined.
Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell.It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916.In the original performance, Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale.
9 Parts of Desire (Arabic: تسعة اجزاء من الرغبة) is a play written by Heather Raffo. In the original version, a single performer plays all nine characters. Heather Raffo herself has acted in productions of 9 Parts of Desire. [1] Some productions opt to use multiple actors. [2] Joanna Settle directed the play's first productions.
Chitra is a one-act play written by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in English in 1913 by the India Society of London. [1] The play adapts part of the story from the Mahabharata and centers upon the character of Chitrangada, a female warrior who tries to attract the attention of Arjuna.