One-Act Plays
“Read these plays to celebrate that purity of intention that Wilder brought to the American theatre.”
“Because so many of the plays we see nowadays are really suited to the small screen, it is easy to forget that a stage, no matter its size, can contain the cosmos. No one understood this better than Thornton Wilder, whose plays show us how to see the infinite in the utterly mundane.”
LICENSING
Professional and Amateur Productions:
Samuel French Inc.
Professional Productions in the UK and International; Amateur Productions outside the USA and Commonwealth Countries:
Alan Brodie Representation Ltd.
PURCHASE
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I, published by TCG Press
Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, published by the Library of America
The Ages of Man Acting Edition, published by Samuel French This collection includes: Infancy, Childhood, Youth, The Rivers Under the Earth.
The Seven Deadly Sins Acting Edition, published by Samuel French This collection includes: The Drunken Sisters (Gluttony), Bernice (Pride), The Wreck on teh 5:25 (Sloth), A Ringing of Doorbells (Envy), In Shakespeare and the Bible (Wrath), Someone from Assisi (Lust), Cement Hands (Avarice).
Wilder's Classic One Acts, published by Samuel French This collection includes: The Long Christmas Dinner, Queens of France, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Love and How to Cure It, Such Things Only Happen in Books, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden.
The long christmas dinner
Queens of France
The ages of man
youth
bernice
in shakespeare and the bible
the drunken sisters
pullman car hiawatha
love and how to cure it
infancy
rivers under the earth
the wreck on the 5:25
cement hands
THE HAPPY JOURNEY to TRENTON and CAMDEN
Such things only happen in books
childhood
the seven deadly sins
a ringing of doorbells
someone from assisi