Plays By Anthony Clarvoe - Softcover

Clarvoe, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881451177 ISBN 13: 9780881451177

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

this collection contains three full-length plays: LET'S PLAY TWO, THE LIVING, & SHOW AND TELL

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Review:

LET'S PLAY TWO, Anthony Clarvoe's suprisingly affecting romantic comedy. Mr Clarvoe's low-key two-hander.... The play, about a young woman made pregnant by an even younger man whose constancy she doubts has something to say about the notion of maturity. As demonstrated by the example of sweet-tempered Phil, that quality is perhaps measured best not by the hardness of one's calluses but by one's willingness to acquire new ones. This may not be the most revolutionary concept ever considered on the American stage. Still, it's no shame to have basic human decency reiterated as a value now and again, especially when it is elucidated as compassionately as in LET'S PLAY TWO. --Peter Marks, The New York Times

Set in 1665 London as the Black Plague sweeps the city claiming more than 100,000 lives, THE LIVING is not about death. Rather this remarkable, riveting drama is a compelling confirmation of life. And although it's set more than three centuries ago, Anthony Clarvoe's two-act parable (in which the reactions of the people and the government parallel those surrounding today's A I D S epidemic), maintains...stunning immediacy.... Often bitterly funny, often ineffably sad, this is the story of a few brave sometimes reluctantly so people who stood fast, doing what need to be done.... Propelled by Clarvoe's masterful handling of language. --Sandra Dillard-Rosen, The Denver Post

All school kids and their parents know about `Show and Tell'. Bringing objects from home is not only a lesson in history, but also an experience in contact, of one person reaching for another and the other reaching back. Playwright Anthony Clarvoe understands it too, and his drama is a powerful tale of contact, and of discovery, and of what it takes to survive. Corey teaches fourth grade, and her classroom literally explodes one morning during show-and-tell. The entire class of twenty-four children dies, but she had left the room for a moment, and survives. A team of government forensics experts arrives to re-assemble the bodies for identification and to seek the cause of the explosion.... They are tough and experienced, with the sardonic wit that they, and others who work constantly with death, need to survive. SHOW AND TELL is a strong, well-written drama that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. --Joe Pollack, Saint Louis Post Dispatch

Set in 1665 London as the Black Plague sweeps the city claiming more than 100,000 lives, THE LIVING is not about death. Rather this remarkable, riveting drama is a compelling confirmation of life. And although it's set more than three centuries ago, Anthony Clarvoe's two-act parable (in which the reactions of the people and the government parallel those surrounding today's A I D S epidemic), maintains...stunning immediacy.... Often bitterly funny, often ineffably sad, this is the story of a few brave sometimes reluctantly so people who stood fast, doing what need to be done.... Propelled by Clarvoe's masterful handling of language. --Sandra Dillard-Rosen, The Denver Post

All school kids and their parents know about `Show and Tell'. Bringing objects from home is not only a lesson in history, but also an experience in contact, of one person reaching for another and the other reaching back. Playwright Anthony Clarvoe understands it too, and his drama is a powerful tale of contact, and of discovery, and of what it takes to survive. Corey teaches fourth grade, and her classroom literally explodes one morning during show-and-tell. The entire class of twenty-four children dies, but she had left the room for a moment, and survives. A team of government forensics experts arrives to re-assemble the bodies for identification and to seek the cause of the explosion.... They are tough and experienced, with the sardonic wit that they, and others who work constantly with death, need to survive. SHOW AND TELL is a strong, well-written drama that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. --Joe Pollack, Saint Louis Post Dispatch

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0881451177
• ISBN 13: 9780881451177
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170