The most famous Theatre company in America, The Group Theatre, only
produced 23 plays in their 10 year existence, and only a few of
those are currently in print. Though they shaped the future of
America drama, many of these plays have been long out of print, or
were never published. For the first time EVER, 2 of these plays see
publication for the first time ever - Nellise Child's WEEP FOR THE
VIRGINS and Robery Ardrey's CASEY JONES finally see publication in
this volume, along with Mr. Ardrey's classic THUNDER ROCK Weep for
the Virgins: A Bitter Comedy by Nellise Child was presented by the
Group in 1935 under the direction of Cheryl Crawford and featured
the talents of Jules Garfield, Phoebe Brand, Eunice Stoddard, J.E.
Bromberg, Margaret Barker and many more. In Weep, we meet the
Jobes: 3 sisters, the original dance mom, a father with dreams of
fortunes in frog legs, and his Bible toting, quoting mother.
Employed by The Blue Ocean Cannery, the untalented sisters are lead
to believe they will have famous lives waiting for them... if only
they can get to Hollywood, by whatever means it takes. Act by act,
each of the sisters meets her ruin, driven there by their mother's
poisonous love. In the first on his two plays for the Group
Theatre, Casey Jones, Robert Ardrey tells a tale of man fixated on
a machine. Like his namesake of the famous ballad, Casey grows up a
man of the railroad. So much so, that he often neglects his family
in favor of his career and his love for his locomotive. As he
approaches his 50th birthday and begins to have trouble with his
eyesight, his days with the railroad may be coming to an end, and
he is forced to question his identity. Nearly a century before our
obesseion with the computer, iPad, and other gadgets seem to
consume our everyday life, Ardrey predicted how man would become
"willing slaves to their machines." In the classic play Thunder
Rock, successful author and former reporter, David Charleston
becomes so disturbed by the state of the world; he takes a job as a
lighthouse keeper and the sole resident of Thunder Rock Island.
When he notices a memorial plaque dedicated to a sailing ship of
immigrants who fatally crashed on the island 90 years prior, he
starts to imagine how ideal life was in their time. Soon, they
begin appearing to him. At first he controls them, until they
decide to teach him about the eternal struggles of life. This
classic play became one of the most important plays in Europe
during World War II and played continuously in London throughout
the bombings.
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