Dodd, Mead & Company -- hc
New York -- ©1948 -- 278pp
A collection of one-act plays.
Introduction -- Margaret Mayorga
"On This Green Bank" -- Sylvan Karchmer
"The Sunny Side of the Atom" -- Carl Beier and Ruth Ashton
"Suffer the Little Children" -- Nicholas Bela
"Who Are the Weavers" -- Joseph Shore and Scott Graham Williamson
"A Woman's Privilege" -- Marrijane and Joseph Hayes
"Frankie and Albert (A Play with Music)" -- Elizabeth Wilson Hughes
"Easter Eve" -- Anna F. Trevisan
"Through a Glass Darkly" -- Stanley Richards
"The Meadow" -- Ray Bradbury
"Before the Bullfight" -- Theodore Apstein
Bibliographies
Selected Plays of the Year
New Collections of One-Act Plays
A mostly forgettable, unremarkable collection. Assuming that these were indeed the best from 47-48, then they just don't stand the test of time. Only "A Woman's Privilege" stands out as being very Pinter-esque, before Pinter had made a name for himself. Almost theatre of the absurd, just before Ionesco revolutionized/created the genre.
No real gems here, sadly.
