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One-Act Plays 

Read these plays to celebrate that purity of intention that Wilder brought to the American theatre.
— – John Guare, 1997
Because so many of the plays we see nowadays are really suited to the small screen, it is easy to forget that a stage, no matter its size, can contain the cosmos. No one understood this better than Thornton Wilder, whose plays show us how to see the infinite in the utterly mundane.
— – Howard Kissel, New York Daily News

LICENSING

Professional and Amateur Productions:
Samuel French Inc.

Professional Productions in the UK and International; Amateur Productions outside the USA and Commonwealth Countries:
Alan Brodie Representation Ltd.

PURCHASE

The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I, published by TCG Press

Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, published by the Library of America

The Ages of Man Acting Edition, published by Samuel French This collection includes: Infancy, Childhood, Youth, The Rivers Under the Earth.

The Seven Deadly Sins Acting Edition, published by Samuel French This collection includes: The Drunken Sisters (Gluttony), Bernice (Pride), The Wreck on teh 5:25 (Sloth), A Ringing of Doorbells (Envy), In Shakespeare and the Bible (Wrath), Someone from Assisi (Lust), Cement Hands (Avarice).

Wilder's Classic One Acts, published by Samuel French This collection includes: The Long Christmas Dinner, Queens of France, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Love and How to Cure It, Such Things Only Happen in Books, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden.


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The long christmas dinner

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Queens of France

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The ages of man

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youth

bernice

in shakespeare and the bible

the drunken sisters

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pullman car hiawatha

love and how to cure it

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infancy

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rivers under the earth

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the wreck on the 5:25

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cement hands

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THE HAPPY JOURNEY to TRENTON and CAMDEN

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Such things only happen in books

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childhood

the seven deadly sins

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a ringing of doorbells

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someone from assisi