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    Boys Will Be Boys and Five One-Act Plays
    Boys Will Be Boys and Five One-Act Plays
    Boys Will Be Boys and Five One-Act Plays
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    Boys Will Be Boys and Five One-Act Plays

    By Robert Manns

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    With the loosening of constraints on what may be discussed and portrayed in plays dealing with homosexuality, similar relaxation should be expected for heterosexual works. Within the bounds of good taste, of course. And taste, like time, alters. Hopefully, the time is now.

    ***

    In an age of miniaturization, the one-act play should find itself at home.

    People do attend concertized etudes, most often for the piano, and that is precisely what a one-act play is-an etude. Sometimes it's a character study, others a piece of action, still others a complete little story, and several strung together selectively can make a program.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateApr 26, 2005
    ISBN9780595796816
    Boys Will Be Boys and Five One-Act Plays
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    Robert Manns

    Robert Manns was born in Detroit; spent six years in New York, where he received his first productions; and later moved to Florida and eventually Atlanta. He wrote his first play when he was 19, his first poem when he was 21. He has taught dramaturgy at Emory University in Atlanta and, while director of Callanwolde Art Institure in that city, initiated the poetry readings still held today. Even before serving as field representative for the National Audubon Society, wildlife and the environment had solidly manifested themselves in his writing.

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      Boys Will Be Boys and Five One-Act Plays - Robert Manns

      Copyright © 2005 by Robert Manns

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      CONTENTS

      BOYS WILL BE BOYS

      PREFACE

      CAST OF CHARACTERS

      ACT ONE

      SCENE ONE

      SCENE TWO

      ACT TWO

      SCENE ONE

      SCENE TWO

      FIVE ONE-ACT PLAYS

      PREFACE

      PILLERIED

      TÊTE-À-TÊTE

      TY

      LA COMMODE

      TABULA RASA

      BOYS WILL BE BOYS

      A domestic comedy

      by

      Robert Manns

      PREFACE

      It seems to me that, with the loosening of constraints on what may be discussed and portrayed in plays dealing with homosexuality, similar relaxation should be expected for heterosexual works. Within the bounds of good taste, of course. And taste, like time, alters.

      I would hope that time might include the following under good taste when treated comically. And the time is now, I hope.

      CAST OF CHARACTERS

      ACT ONE

      SCENE ONE

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