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- catalog abstract ""From her college days onward, Dawn Powell, known primarily for her novels and her diaries and letters, dreamed of becoming a successful playwright. Indeed, over the course of four decades, she finished at least ten plays and was working on fashioning her novel, The Golden Spur into a musical comedy during her final illness. Only two of her plays were mounted during her lifetime, however. This volume contains both of those works - Big Night which was produced by the legendary Group Theater in 1933, and Jig Saw, which was staged by the Theater Guild the following year. These are fast-paced, blunt-spoken - and very funny - comedies that directly anticipate the hard-boiled satire of such novels as Turn, Magic Wheel and Angels on Toast. Rounding out the book are two unpublished (and as yet unproduced) plays that Powell wrote in the late 1920s - the experimental, quasi-expressionist Women at Four O'Clock and a nostalgic bittersweet story of old New York, Walking Down Broadway, which director Erich von Stroheim would later adapt into the Hollywood film Hello, Sister!"--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Plays. Selections".
- catalog contributor b11472255.
- catalog contributor b11472256.
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Drama.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""From her college days onward, Dawn Powell, known primarily for her novels and her diaries and letters, dreamed of becoming a successful playwright. Indeed, over the course of four decades, she finished at least ten plays and was working on fashioning her novel, The Golden Spur into a musical comedy during her final illness. Only two of her plays were mounted during her lifetime, however. This volume contains both of those works - Big Night which was produced by the legendary Group Theater in 1933, and Jig Saw, which was staged by the Theater Guild the following year. These are fast-paced, blunt-spoken - and very funny - comedies that directly anticipate the hard-boiled satire of such novels as Turn, Magic Wheel and Angels on Toast.".
- catalog description "Big night -- Jig saw -- Women at four o'clock -- Walking down Broadway.".
- catalog description "Rounding out the book are two unpublished (and as yet unproduced) plays that Powell wrote in the late 1920s - the experimental, quasi-expressionist Women at Four O'Clock and a nostalgic bittersweet story of old New York, Walking Down Broadway, which director Erich von Stroheim would later adapt into the Hollywood film Hello, Sister!"--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "454 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Four plays.".
- catalog identifier "1883642612 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Four plays.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press,".
- catalog relation "Four plays.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Drama.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog subject "812/.52 21".
- catalog subject "City and town life New York (State) New York Drama.".
- catalog subject "PS3531.O936 A6 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Big night -- Jig saw -- Women at four o'clock -- Walking down Broadway.".
- catalog title "Four plays / by Dawn Powell ; edited with an introduction by Michael Sexton and Tim Page.".
- catalog title "Plays. Selections".
- catalog type "Drama. fast".
- catalog type "text".