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Bal & The Return of Pinocchio & The Vienna Notes
9 Male, 5 Female
From the introduction by Robert Marx, Executive Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ... "Conversations with Richard Nelson lead inevitably to two topics: theater and politics.…
Good Night Children Everywhere - also includes New England & Some Americans Abroad & Two Shakespearean Actors & Franny’s Way
Goodnight Children Everywhere - “Richard Nelson’s new play announces itself almost as if it were Chekhovian ... the play, like all plays of discovery and purgation, has a translucency and a…
Plays by Anton Chekhov - The Wood Demon & The Seagull & Three Sisters
Chekhov on The Wood Demon ... “In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject - a man…
Jitterbugging - Scenes of Sex in Society & An American Comedy & Rip van Winkle
From the introduction by Robert Marx, Executive Director of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: The plays in this volume were written by Richard Nelson between 1981 and 1983—years…
Kenneth’s First Play - A Play for Young Audiences
This follows the adventures of young Kenneth as he makes his first trip to a theatre. Bored by what he sees, he tries to leave but goes through the wrong door and finds himself lost inside the play…
Madame Melville
“Nelson, in his 100-minute play, intertwines two familiar themes: the sexual initiation of the young and the confrontation of American innocence by European experience His hero, Carl, now married…
New England
“The barbarians are sweeping over us and all we do is kiss their ass” An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent. Brought together by tragedy, they find…
The General from America
Can you betray your country, when your country has betrayed itself? In 1780, America’s most successful General believed the War of Independence had lost its way. He decided to surrender his soldiers,…
Don Juan
8 Male, 3 Female
“Richard Nelson’s supple translation accommodates this transposition comfortably, without infidelity to the original” ~ Julius Novick, The Village Voice “Richard Nelson’s…
Principia Scriptoriae
8 Male, 0 Female
Set in 1970, two aspiring writers, one American the other Latin American, meet in a South American jail where they’ve been sent for distributing subversive leaflets The second half of the play takes…
The Controversy of Valladolid
8 Male, 1 Female
Imagine a time when the Catholic Church had the right to determine whether or not you were human In a 16C Spanish monastery, the fate of millions of American natives from an ocean away hangs precariously…
The Marriage of Figaro
7 Male, 4 Female
“...the very talented American playwright Richard Nelson [has undertaken] a new and emphatically idiomatic adaptation…. Nelson’s dialogue proves resolutely contemporary.” Clive…
