Fitch, Clyde

The Truth: A Play in Four Acts

New York: The Macmillan Company / London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1915. 1915. New York: The Macmillan Company / London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1915. 1915. Very good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in decorative gray & black wrappers. The wraps are chipped around the edges with creases to the corners of the rear wrap. The tail of the spine is chipped. xiii & 237 pages plus 4-page publisher's catalog. The front edges of the front endpaper & flyleaf are chipped with their bottom corners creased & there is light soiling to the endpaper. There are small creases to the front edges of a number of other pages, else the contents are very good.

Later printing.

The play was first produced in Cleveland Ohio, October 1906 and subsequently played at the Criterion and Lyceum Theatres in New York. Very good .

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Book number: 17883

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; PLAY; CLYDE FITCH; THE TRUTH.

Fjelde, Rolf; Ibsen, Henrik; Esslin, Martin; Sarris, Andrew; Sprinchorn, Evert; Lahr, John; et al. (Schechner, Richard; editor)

The Drama Review. Volume 13 Number 2 (T-42) Winter 1968. (Naturalism Revisited)

New York: New York University School of the Arts, 1968. 1968. New York: New York University School of the Arts, 1968. 1968. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial brown & white wraps. The wraps are lightly bumped, soiled & foxed. 175 pages plus ads. Black-and-white illustrations. The first 18 pages [ads & table of contents] are detached. Good only.

Among the contents of this issue are "Peer Gynt and the Dissolving Self" by Rolf Fjelde; "Prof. Welhaven on Mythological Poems", an 1851 article by Ibsen; "Naturalism in Context" by Martin Esslin; "Strindberg and the Greater Naturalism" by Evert Sprinchorn; "Film: The Illusion of Naturalism" by Andrew Sarris; and John Lahr on Pinter and Chekhov. Good .

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Book number: 15187

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; PERIODICAL; RICHARD SCHECHNER; THE DRAMA REVIEW; NATURALISM REVISITED; HENRIK IBSEN; PEER GYNT; ROLF FJELDE; MARTIN ESSLIN; STRINDBERG; EVERT SPRINCHORN; FILM; ANDREW SARRIS; JOHN LAHR; ANTON CHEKHOV; HAROLD PINTER; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Fletcher, John; [Reynolds, Frederic; adapter]

The Humorous Lieutenant; or, Alexander's Successors: A Tragi-Comedy, Written by Beaumont and Fletcher; and Now Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 38, Bedford Street, 1817. 1817. London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 38, Bedford Street, 1817. 1817. Good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in later brown wraps with cream cord. The wraps are darkened, chipped & rippled with pieces out of the bottom corners of the front wrap. The spine is perished. 85 pages. The pagination suggests that the half-title is lacking. There is staining to the title page & to the first & last leaves of the text & the bottom corner of the title is chipped. There is occasional staining to the margins of other pages & a number of top page corners are creased. A good copy of a fragile book.

In "The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher. With Notes..by The Rev. Alexander Dyce" [London, 1844], this play is attributed to John Fletcher: "The Humorous Lieutenant may be confidently attributed to Fletcher alone..The authority of the MS. which declares it to be 'written by John Fletcher', is of the greatest weight". Regarding the production history of the play, Dyce writes: "After the Restoration The Humorous Lieutenant enjoyed much popularity; it was the first play that was acted, and that for twelve nights successively, at the opening of the theatre in Drury Lane, April 8, 1663..In 1817 an alteration of it was brought out at [Covent Garden] but with slight success."

The "alteration" here published was by Frederic Reynolds [1764-1841], a British playwright and theatrical producer, now best known for his adaptations of Shakespeare staged at Covent Garden. His "operatic" productions based on Shakespeare's plays usually included music by Henry Bishop and others, added tableaux and spectacle, and switched songs from one Shakespeare play to another. There appear to be no obvious embellishments of this kind in the Fletcher play, at least not in the text. Reynolds' adaptation opened at Covent Garden in January 1817 with William Charles Macready in the cast as Demetrius.

Rare. Not in Copac or WorldCat. Good .

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Book number: 16642

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; STAGE; BRITISH; LONDON; COVENT GARDEN; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; JOHN FLETCHER; THE HUMOROUS LIEUTENANT; TRAGI-COMEDY; PLAY; ADAPTATION; FREDERIC REYNOLDS; PLAYWRIGHT; PRODUCER.

Foreman, Richard

Reverberation Machines. The Later Plays and Essays

(Barrytown, NY): Station Hill Press, (1985). (1985). (Barrytown, NY): Station Hill Press, (1985). (1985). Very good. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in white with a B&W photographic illustration mounted on the front cover. The covers are bumped with very light spotting to the top edge. viii & 245 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Very good.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 1598

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATER; EXPERIMENTAL; AVANT GARDE; PLAYWRIGHT; DIRECTOR; AMERICAN; RICHARD FOREMAN; ONTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC THEATRE; PLAYS; ESSAYS; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Fratti, Mario (1927-2023).

Cristiano (a New Version of "Cage"). A Play in Two Acts.

New York: Mario Fratti, 1975. 1975. New York: Mario Fratti, 1975. 1975. Very good. - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover. 85 mechanically reproduced pages, each printed from type on one side of each sheet, bound into a light blue manilla three-hole folder. The folder is titled in red ink on the front cover. The manilla covers are creased. 85 pages with the subtitle "(a new version of 'Cage')" penned in ink on the title page. Very good. "La gabbia (The Cage, 1963) is a powerful study of fear and isolation. Cristiano, afraid and disgusted with life, has locked himself in a cage and communicates with those outside only by quoting lines from Chekhov. Like Chekhov's characters, Cristiano seeks comfort in words, but the words never conceal his loneliness and despair, his inability to cope with life." - from the bio of the author. With the distribution slip of the "Laura Dubman Agency" tipped on to the title page. Dubman, a child prodigy classical pianist, was the wife of Mario Fratti. A mechanically reproduced newspaper review of the play "Cage" is mounted on the inside of the front cover, and a bibliography of the author's works is mounted on the inside of the rear cover. The Italian author Mario Fratti was the New York drama critic for several European newspapers and a professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. His plays, produced in hundreds of theaters, and translated into several languages, include "Cage", "Suicide", "Academy", "Mafia", "E.Duse", "Chinese Friend", "Refrigerators", "Che Guevara", "Cile 1973", "Madam Senator", "Dialogue With a Negro", and "Patty Hearst", among others. Very good .

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Book number: 98627

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: LITERATURE; THEATER; PLAY; SCRIPT; MARIO FRATTI; CRISTIANO; CAGE: TWO ACTS; MODERN; THEATRE; STAGE; DRAMA; LAURA DUBMAN AGENCY; PLAYWRIGHT; ITALIAN; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; STAGE; TYPESCRIPT; LAURA DUBMAN AGENCY.

Fratti, Mario; and Scott, Ed.

The Seducers: A Musical by Mario Fratti and Ed Scott (Based on Fratti's "Academy"). Book by Mario Fratti. Music and Lyrics by Ed Scott.

(New York: Laura Dubman Agency), 1974. 1974. (New York: Laura Dubman Agency), 1974. 1974. Very good. - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover. A mechanically reproduced typescript bound with 2 brass studs in a light blue folder. The folder is lightly soiled & rubbed with the edges lightly creased. Title, character list & 51 pages with a biography of Mario Fratti glued to the last page. The edges of the title are darkened, else the contents are very good. "The Seducers" is a sardonic comedy-drama about a school for young gigolos in Venice. Run by a middle-aged ex-Fascist, the academy teaches young Italians how to charm rich American women on vacation. There is an underlining and addition in red ink on the character list page. Laid in are two pages of photocopied reviews and an original photograph showing four scenes from the New York production. With the distribution slip of the "Laura Dubman Agency" tipped on to the title page. Dubman, a child prodigy classical pianist, was the wife of Mario Fratti. The Italian author Mario Fratti was the New York drama critic for several European newspapers and a professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. His plays, produced in hundreds of theaters, and translated into several languages, include "Cage", "Suicide", "Academy", "Mafia", "E.Duse", "Chinese Friend", "Refrigerators", "Che Guevara", "Cile 1973", "Madam Senator", "Dialogue With a Negro", and "Patty Hearst", among others. Very good .

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Book number: 98628

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATER; THEATRE; MUSICAL; SCRIPT; MARIO FRATTI; ED SCOTT; THE SEDUCERS; ACADEMY; PRODUCTION SHOTS; PHOTOGRAPH; REVIEWS; A MUSICAL BY MARIO FRATTI AND ED SCOTT; LAURA DUBMAN AGENCY; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; STAGE; TYPESCRIPT; PLAY; LITERATURE.

Friedman, Bruce Jay

Scuba Duba: A Tense Comedy

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1967). (1967). New York: Simon and Schuster, (1967). (1967). Good. - Octavo, pictorial boards in a dust wrapper. The binding is slightly bumped. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with its spine & extremities slightly darkened. 102 pages. 8 pages of black-and-white production photographs. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge which slightly stains the bottom edges of the rear pastedown & the last few leaves. Good.

First edition.

Bruce Jay Friedman's first play was staged by the Establishment Theatre Company at the New Theatre, New York City, directed by Jacques Levy, opening on October 10, 1967. Jerry Orbach, Judd Hirsch and Cleavon Little were among the cast. Good .

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Book number: 31782

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; STAGE. COMEDY; PLAY; AMERICAN HUMORIST; BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN; SCUBA DUBA; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Fry, Christopher

The Dark Is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy

London: Oxford University Press, (1955). (1955). London: Oxford University Press, (1955). (1955). Very good. - Octavo, light blue cloth titled in gilt on spine, in dw. The covers are bumped & soiled & there is light staining to the extremities & the tail of the spine. The dw is spotted, soiled & chipped with pieces out of the head & tail of the dw spine. [viii], 103 & [1] pp. There is an ink name on the front endpaper. Very good internally.

Third impression.

Signed in full by the author on the title page. Very good .

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Book number: 1477

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: PERFORMING ARTS; THEATER; PLAY; VERSE PLAY; BRITISH; ENGLISH; PLAYWRIGHT; CHRISTOPHER FRY; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH.

Fry, Christopher

A Sleep of Prisoners

New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1951. 1951. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1951. 1951. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with its spine & extremities darkened. Half-title, title, [1] leaf & 49 pages. There is an ink name on the front endpaper with offsetting to the front flap of the dust wrapper. Good.

First edition. Good .

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Book number: 26950

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; STAGE; PLAYS; BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT; CHRISTOPHER FRY; VERSE PLAY; A SLEEP OF PRISONERS; PRISONERS OF WAR; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Gagliano, Frank

Father Uxbridge Wants to Marry: A Play by Frank Gagliano

New York: Grove Press, Inc. (1968). (1968). New York: Grove Press, Inc. (1968). (1968). Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are bumped & rubbed. There is some darkening & staining to the edges of the rear wrap with small dents & 2 pinholes to its top edge. The remnants of 2 pieces of scotch tape adhere to the front edge of each wrap & a third piece has been removed, leaving a glue mark to the front wrap & a small area of the surface torn away on the rear wrap. 61 pages plus 2 pages of music staves. There is a glue stain to the front edge of the first leaf and there are 2 pinholes in the top edge of the last leaf. Good.

First edition.

Inscribed and signed in full on the first leaf by Frank Gagliano. Good .

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Book number: 19696

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; AMERICAN THEATRE; THEATER; PLAY; SCRIPT; PLAYWRIGHT; FRANK GAGLIANO; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; FATHER UXBRIDGE WANTS TO MARRY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Galsworthy, John

Escape: An Episodic Play in a Prologue and Two Acts

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 1927. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 1927. Very good. - Octavo, paper-covered boards in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly chipped with its spine rubbed & darkened & its top edge slightly creased. [vii] & 94 pages. There is a previous owner's ink name & date on the front endpaper. There is offsetting to the first page of text & the facing blank. Very good.

First American edition. Very good .

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Book number: 29466

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; STAGE; PLAYS; BRITISH AUTHOR; PLAYWRIGHT; JOHN GALSWORTHY; ESCAPE; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

Garrick, David.

Three Plays by David Garrick. Printed from Hitherto Unpublished Mss. With Introduction and Notes by Elizabeth P. Stein, Ph. D.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. 1926. - Octavo, buff boards decorated with a repeating pattern in shades of green, backed with a buff cloth spine decorated in blind with a printed title label. The covers are a bit darkened and slightly soiled and the corners are lightly worn. xii & 151 pages plus the colophon, illustrated in black & white with a portrait frontispiece & 8 facsimile plates. Very good.

First edition, limited to 490 copies. Very good .

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Book number: 35772

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATER; PLAY; ENGLISH; ACTOR; ACTOR MANAGER; DAVID GARRICK; ELIZABETH P. STEIN; ILLUSTRATIONS; PLATES; FACSIMILES; FIRST EDITION; LITERATURE; THREE PLAYS BY DAVID GARRICK; PRINTED FROM HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED MSS. WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES; 1ST EDITION; 2

Geisinger, Marion

Plays, Players, & Playwrights: An Illustrated History of the Theatre

NY: Hart Publishing Company, Inc. (1971). (1971). NY: Hart Publishing Company, Inc. (1971). (1971). Very good. - Large octavo, light green cloth titled in red & blue. The binding is soiled & stained & there is slight fraying to the head of the spine. 767 pp. Profusely illustrated in B&W. The contents are very good. Very good .

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Book number: 6544

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATER; HISTORY OF THEATER; REFERENCE; PLAYS; DRAMA; ACTORS; PLAYWRIGHTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; MARION GEISINGER. (Theater). (Reference). PLAYS, PLAYERS, & PLAYWRIGHTS: An Illustrated History of the Theatre. Geisinger, Marion.

Gielgud, John; Markham, David; Coward, Noel; Eddison, Robert; Howard, Trevor; Harvey, Laurence; Michell, Keith; Redgrave, Michael; Scofield, Paul; Mac Liammoir, Micheal; Tutin, Dorothy; Westbrook, John; Mason, Brewster; Segal, Jeffrey; Russell, Mairhi.

An English Theatrical Autograph Album from the Early 1950's Featuring John Gielgud and Noel Coward Among Others.

[1950's]. [1950's]. [1950's]. [1950's]. Very good. - Octodecimo [18mo], 4-1/2 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in light blue & silver cloth titled "Autographs" in gilt on the front cover. The front edges of the covers are slightly bumped. The album consists of 28 leaves with approximately 50 autographs with signatures often penned on both sides of the leaves. There is a short tear to the bottom edge of several leaves, not affecting the autographs. Very good. Among the autographs we are able to identify are the following: John Gielgud, (19042000) was an English actor and theatre director; David Markham (19131983) was an English stage and film actor; Noël Coward (18991973) was an English playwright, composer and actor; Robert Eddison, (19081991) was an English actor who is most widely remembered for his role of the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Trevor Howard (19131988) was an English stage, film, and television actor; Laurence Harvey (19281973) was a Lithuanian-born actor and film director who settled in England; Keith Michell (19262015) was an Australian actor who worked primarily in the United Kingdom, and was best known for his television and film portrayals of King Henry VIII; Michael Redgrave (19081985) was an English actor and director; Paul Scofield (19222008) was an English actor. Scofield achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, Emmy, and Tony for his work; Micheál Mac Liammóir (18991978) was an Irish actor, dramatist and impresario; Dorothy Tutin, (19302001) was an English actress of stage, film and television; John Westbrook (19221989) was an English actor who worked mainly in theatre and in radio; Brewster Mason (19221987) was an English stage actor who also appeared in films and on television; Jeffrey Segal (19202015) was an English actor and scriptwriter; Mairhi Russell (1923-1986) was a Scottish actress Several of the actors are congratulating Gillian Richards for her radio play "The Dreamers" which they performed in on October 28, 1955. Very good .

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Book number: 98138

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: AUTOGRAPH ALBUM; THEATRE; THEATER; JOHN GIELGUD; DAVID MARKHAM; NOEL COWARD; ROBERT EDDISON; TREVOR HOWARD; ENGLISH ACTORS; LAURENCE HARVEY; KEITH MICHELL; MICHAEL REDGRAVE; PAIL SCOFIELD; MICHEAL MAC LIAMMOIR; DOROTHY TUTIN; JOHN WESTBROOK; BREWSTER MASO

Gifford, Ed.

Hair. [the Original 1969 "Souvenir Book"].

Natoma Productions, Inc. 1969. 1969. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wraps with psychedelic portraits of cast members on both covers. [20] pages, most of them printed on red & green grounds. Profuse psychedelic illustrations, also incorporating black-and-white production shots from the show. There is a tiny chip to the front edge of the first 2 leaves. Very good. This souvenir program was produced and written by Ed Griffin and designed by Willson-Frissora. Very good .

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Book number: 94499

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; STAGE; AMERICAN THEATRE; MUSICAL; HAIR; SIXTIES; HIPPIES; MICHAEL BUTLER; GEROME RAGNI; JAMES RADO; GALT MACDERMOTT; TOM O'HORGAN; SOUVENIR PROGRAM; ED GIFFORD; WILLSON-FRISSORA; PSYCHEDELIC ILLUSTRATIONS.