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Playwrights for Tomorrow - A Collection of Plays, Volume 13 (Paperback, Minnesota Archi)
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Playwrights for Tomorrow - A Collection of Plays, Volume 13 (Paperback, Minnesota Archi)
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Playwrights for Tomorrow was first published in 1975. Minnesota
Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable
books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions. Four plays by
writers who have worked under the auspices of the Office for
Advanced Drama Research (O.A.D.R.) at the University of Minnesota
are published in this volume, the thirteenth in the series of such
collections. The O.A.D.R. program, which is directed by Arthur H..
Ballet, the series editor, provides an opportunity for promising
playwrights to work with cooperating theatres in the production of
their plays. The plays in this volume are The Tunes of Chicken
Little by Robert Gordon, The Inheritance by Ernest A. Joselovitz,
Blessing by Joseph Landon, and The Kramer by Mark Medoff. Three of
the plays-those by Robert Gordon, Joseph Landon, and Mark
Medoff-were produced by the American Conservatory Theatre of San
Francisco. The play by Mr. Joselovitz was presented by the
University of Minnesota Theatre in Minneapolis. In his introduction
Mr. Ballet comments on the achievements and problems of the
O.A.D.R. program. He reports that since the program began it had
had about one hundred plays produced in some sixty theatres, not
only in the United States but also in Australia, New Zealand,
Scotland, and Canada. However, he writes, it became increasingly
difficult to find playhouses willing to risk the challenge of new
plays and playwrights. "More dangerous still," he writes, "has been
the tendency for some directors to make theatre their own, highly
personal art. Because so many of these directors only like what
they know, and they don't know what to make of new work at all,
they cannot truly judge and anticipate as a stage piece anything
beyond their immediate ken. The rejections are cavalier and
unthinking. The directors' lament that there are no new, exciting
playwrights must be answered with the accusation that there really
are damned few new, exciting, perceptive directors."
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