{"product_id":"playwrights-for-tomorrow-3","title":"Playwrights for Tomorrow","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlaywrights for Tomorrow \u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1972. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the ninth volume in the continuing series \u003ci\u003ePlaywrights for Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e,which makes available collections of plays by dramatists who have participated in the program of the Office for Advanced Drama Research at the University of Minnesota. Arthur H. Ballet, the series editor, is the director of the program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Ballet writes an introduction to the volume, sketching a history of the O.A.D.R. program, telling about some of its accomplishments and programs, and giving information about the playwrights and productions of the plays included here. He explains: \"The O.A.D.R. was established in 1963 at the University of Minnesota, with financial aid from the Rockefeller Foundation, to provide an opportunity for playwrights seeking to try fresh paths, an opportunity to have their work performed without the pressures endemic to the commercial theatre.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plays in this volume are \u003ci\u003eEncore \u003c\/i\u003e by David Korr, \u003ci\u003eMadam Popov \u003c\/i\u003e by Gladden Schrock, \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003eby The Company Theatre Ensemble with script by Don Keith Opper, and \u003ci\u003ePsalms of Two Davids \u003c\/i\u003eby Joel Schwartz. \u003ci\u003eEncore \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMadam Popov \u003c\/i\u003ewere presented, in separate productions, at the Other Place Theatre of the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003ewas presented by The Company Theatre in Los Angeles. \u003ci\u003ePsalms of Two Davids \u003c\/i\u003e was produced at the College of Marin in California under the direction of James Dunn. Two of the plays—\u003ci\u003eChildren of the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePsalms of Two Davids \u003c\/i\u003e—are full-length and the other two are one-act plays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arthur H. Ballet, EditorIntroduction by Arthur H. Ballet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616393486716,"sku":"9780816606542","price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780816606542_88e00842-b798-4db6-ba94-c343840b92ec.jpg?v=1726477577","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/playwrights-for-tomorrow-3","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}