Author Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder’s Classic One Acts
"If God were to dabble in anthropology, and the recording angels to write with wry humor and infinite tolerance of human folly, this is how the holy books would read" ~ The New York Times This collection…
The Seven Deadly Sins - Seven One-act Plays
3 Male, 4 Female
Published for the first time in a single acting edition, Wilder's The Seven Deadly Sins presents a series of short works depicting the complexity and consequences of human frailty The Seven One-act Plays…
Collected Short Plays - Volume I
After a period of decline, Wilder’s reputation is on an upswing that this collection of plays will fuel. This is the first volume of short plays in a uniform edition, complete and well edited by…
Collected Short Plays - Volume II
Thornton Wilder’s short plays are published for the first time in two volumes - this second volume collects his first published book of plays - The Angel that Troubled with Waters and Other Plays…
The Matchmaker
9 Male, 7 Female
A certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and…
The Skin of Our Teeth
5 Male, 5 Female
This is the satiric story of the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of the war any war They have survived flood, fire, pestilence, the seven year locusts, the ice age, the…
The Long Christmas Dinner
5 Male, 7 Female
This play covers 90 years and represents 90 Christmas dinners in the Bayard family The development of the countryside, the changes in customs and manners, the growth of the Bayard family, and their accumulation…
The Happy Journey to Trenton from Camden
3 Male, 3 Female
In this one act comedy, one of the characters representing the author leans against the proscenium and reads the lines for a number of minor characters who never appear The simple story of Pa and Ma and…
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