Description

Purdue University, Volume II, No. 4, Fall, 1963. Paper covers, pages 334-404. In good condition. Cream paper covers with red lettering and illustrations. Bumping and creasing to edges and corners and a few nicks and tears along edges and top and bottom of fold of spine. Moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight (staple bound). One page has a telephone number written in the upper left corner and the "I" "Act I" covered over in blue ink. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. [From inside front cover] FIRST STAGE attempts to serve these purposes: to offer plays of outstanding quality that have not appeared in print or that have not been produced professionally; to bring to the attention of the producers of the American and foreign theatres playwrights and plays that will enrich the living repertory of drama; to encourage a free exchange of ideas, comments and criticism on the problems and offerings of the contemporary theatre. Contents: THE ITALIAN THEATRICAL SCENE: 1962-63 by Bettina Knapp and Albadella Fazia; OLYMPUS, FAREWELL by Jefferson Bayley; UP by R. L. Sassoon and D. H.Elliott; THE GRASS'S SPRINGING by Theodore Labrenz; THE BED by Jack Adler; A DIRECTORY OF THEATERS OFFERING NEW PLAYS; INDEX FOR VOLUME II