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    A Tripos: & Other One-Act Plays
    A Tripos: & Other One-Act Plays
    A Tripos: & Other One-Act Plays
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    A Tripos: & Other One-Act Plays

    By Robert Manns

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    Twelve one-act plays ranging in emotion from wartime fears and desires to social and political commentary. And a new theater.

    "You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is all your own. It wasn't imposed on the characters: it spoke for them."
    Christopher Fry

    "I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented...playwrights in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial theater...His choice of style is unique; his imagination boundless; and his dedication intense. And I believe he has a real gift for the theater."
    Alan Schneider

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 21, 2002
    ISBN9781469712642
    A Tripos: & Other 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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      Book preview

      A Tripos - Robert Manns

      Contents

      Pygmalion And Galatea

      Pithecanthropus Erectus

      The Orgy

      The Useless Man and The Useful Man

      Paradise Found

      The Sixty-seven Loves of Manalete

      I Am Promoted

      The Neophytes

      The Investment of Atlanta

      Fragments

      The Bitter End

      The Boys of 1776

      The Drill

      Pygmalion And Galatea

      A Tripos

      First performed at The White Barn Theater, Westport, Connecticut, 1958

      Cast

      Pygmalion

      Galatea

      Narrator

      Setting    Pygmalion’s Studio. A typical artist’s studio of the time in Cyprus with completed and incomplete statuary. Fronted is a pedestal holding the work of a beautiful long haired youthful woman, Galatea. Pygmalion is shorter.

      Narrator    In Pygmalion And Galatea we have the first of three shapes of love, the transcendental that makes a bid for the corporeal.

      Galatea Are you sure?

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