Drama

(Her Anniversary Page Opera—Continues) The curtain shivers on stage boards—dirty gas on the bare back dust under cover of horse, cloth—darkness to the bristles—broom for a rug over a century (late of sawdust   coal ash   all stagehands on deck) all rugs from the wings (hand to handing off)   rugs   unrolling another’s land another lands—a splash…

A Play in One Act commissioned by McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey PLAYWRIGHT, middle-aged BLOND ACTRESS, childlike but about thirty Lights up. The Playwright is typing on an old portable typewriter on a stool or a small raised table. His actions need not seem realistic. He faces the audience, brooding. The Blond Actress appears at…

Scene Two: Hippolytus, Aricia, Ismene Hippolytus Madam, I felt, ere leaving here, That I should make your altered fortunes clear. My sire is dead. My fears divined, alas, By his long absence, what had come to pass. Death only, ending all his feats and frays, Could hide him from the world so many days. The…

trans. French Ron Horning (On May 13, 1921, in an auditorium in Paris, the Dada poets try writer and politician Maurice Barrès for "crimes against the freedom of the spirit." A store mannequin is used as a dummy for Barrès, who in his recent fiction and journalism has spoken out eloquently in behalf of reactionary…

* Characters MR. BERNARD SETTLE, owner of B&D Market MR. EUSTIS CHASTAIN, owner of Tidal Realty Co. MRS. CAROLINE BYERS MRS. GLORIANNA LIMEHOUSE NORMAN, aged 52, owner of a pick-up truck PAUL, a potter and a dog owner, balding with long hair MAD JOHN, a dog owner, in his thirties MRS. FAYE PETTY, librarian BEMISS,…