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  • A Tripos

    & Other One-Act Plays

    by Robert Manns ...
    Twelve one-act plays ranging in emotion from wartime fears and desires to social and political commentary. And a new theater."You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is all your own. It wasn't imposed on the characters: it spoke for them."Christopher Fry"I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented...playwrights in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Lincoln in the White House

    by Robert Manns ...
    A powerful play on Lincoln's tenure in the White House from inauguration to assination, the period of his surpurb greatness. Backgrounded by the devastating civil war, it presents Mary, Grant, Seward, Lee, Meade, Stanton, common soldiery and others of the time by a playwright whose skills should make him of major interest. ... Read more

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  • Yorktown

    A Play

    by Robert Manns ...
    "You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is all your own. It wasn't imposed on the characters: it spoke for them."-Christopher Fry"I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented playwrights in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial theater His choice of style is unique; his imagination boundless; and his dedication intense. And I believe he has a real ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Rats & the Cockroach

    Two Plays

    by Robert Manns ...
    The Rats is the story of Dr. Rago and Fujikawa. Rago uses a profession of nobility and admiration to questionable ends. The other, Fujikawa, a wino and derelict, supplies the ethic and humanity.The Cockroach is a fusion of cultures in America, north and south. A light little comedy of high intent invaded by lowly interferences. ... Read more

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  • Boys Will Be Boys and Five One-Act Plays

    by Robert Manns ...
    With the loosening of constraints on what may be discussed and portrayed in plays dealing with homosexuality, similar relaxation should be expected for heterosexual works. Within the bounds of good taste, of course. And taste, like time, alters. Hopefully, the time is now.***In an age of miniaturization, the one-act play should find itself at home.People do attend concertized etudes, most often ... Read more

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  • The Wasp

    And Other One-Act Plays

    by Robert Manns ...
    In an age of miniaturization, the one-act play should find itself at home.People do attend concertized etudes, most often for the piano, and that is precisely what a one-act play is-an etude. Sometimes it's a character study, others a piece of action, still others a complete little story, and several strung together selectively can make a program. ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems and Pygmalion and Galatea, a One-Act Play

    by Robert Manns ...
    Robert Manns' Selected Poems is comprised of two large poems and a number of smaller verses of various forms that recount is happy, sometimes frustrated, years of bachelor-hood. By a Turning Root is his invasion of several classical forms and a very sound illustration of the poet as visionary.Pygmalion and Galatea was first produced by Lucille Lortel at the White Barn Theatre in Westport and ... Read more

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  • The Swan That Slept

    A Play

    by Robert Manns ...
    After the American Revolution, Scottish immigrant James Swan entered the businesses of real estate and shipping. Becoming friends with many of the luminaries of the times, his businesses expanded to France, where he was accused of a two million franc debt owed to the government of Napoleon, perhaps in taxes, which he refused. Swan, although he could easily afford the payment, refused to pay "on ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Briefing

    A One-Act Play

    by Robert Manns ...
    "I have little doubt that Robert Manns is America's most accomplished living playwright."-J. Brian Smith ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Cry the Loon and the Avian Connection

    Two Plays

    by Robert Manns ...
    Cry the Loon is a domestic tragedy laid in the author's own hometown.The Avian Connection is a comical fantasy dealing with an ornithologist's belief that man and bird evolved from the same source, the warm-blooded archaeopteryx. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Night of the Frogs & Sautee and Nacoochee

    by Robert Manns ...
    Night of the FrogsWith the realistic dross of our time, here comes a verse play on the Salem Witch Hunts of 1692 that brings pleasure to the ear, action to the eye and the introduction of a character, as yet untreated, who becomes a heroan American businessman.Sautee and NacoocheeAdapted to modern time, Sautee and Nacoochee is a love story derived from a Georgia Indian legend. Through one-liners ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Lincoln Part I & Part Ii

    Two Plays by Robert Manns

    by Robert Manns ...
    Two verse plays that begin with the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln and end with his assassination. LINCOLN is backgrounded by the entire length of the Civil War; portraits of Stanton, Lee, Meade, Grant, and other principals; and numbers of common soldiery. Epic in size, the plays are also noted for their accuracy and the trenchant driving rhythms of the verse.You found a trenchant, ... Read more

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