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Margaret D. Bauer reintroduces one of Paul Green's best plays, The
House of Connelly, the first play performed (on Broadway, in 1931)
by the renowned Group Theatre of New York. In so doing, Bauer also
perhaps reintroduces the playwright himself, famous and well
respected in his day, but largely forgotten today, except for his
outdoor symphonic drama The Lost Colony, which continues to be
performed every summer in Manteo, North Carolina. Green's The House
of Connelly is a more traditional drama, comparable to the writing
of Tennessee Williams, and Bauer asserts that this play is as good
as Williams's plays and deals more directly and fully with racial
issues of the early twentieth-century South than Williams did in
his drama. Bauer's new edition includes both endings to the play:
the tragic ending that Green wrote originally and the revised
ending he wrote upon the Group Theatre directors' request. Bauer
provides the writing, production, and publication history of the
play; a scene-by-scene critical analysis, including an analysis of
both endings; and a discussion of the 1934 film adaptation,
Carolina. The play's theme is change, Bauer concludes: with both
endings, Green shows that the South had to change if the people
were going to survive.
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