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Railroad engineer Casey Jones treats his locomotive as an escape from a world he does not understand. As he loses his sight, neglects his family, and is forced to retire, his loyalty to the railroad leaves him confronting a life spent in its service.
A fictional one-act play set during the Battle of the Alamo.
The author described the play as "A proletarian love story of pleasant dimensions." It tells the story of Kitty, an independent-minded waitress in a cheap cafe in a Midwestern industrial district, and Dan Grimshaw, "a boat-builder with more pride in craft than business sense." Atkinson gives the following summary: She has been in love with an amiable thug who promotes himself to labor union racketeering, and has coldly deserted her. By force of circumstances the waitress and the boat-builder are thrown together on the houseboat, where he lives on the mudflats, and they find that their notions of life are congenial. During a bogus strike the racketeer comes back, claims his old girl and takes her. The rest of the play is the story of how the uncontaminated pair learn how to get tough about it and save the decencies of their private principles in a world that is seething with violent corruption.
A Black veteran returns to his rural Southern home with an artificial leg and the skill to operate an adding machine, but the job he pursues is considered a white man's work. Facing relentless opposition, he ends up in Harlem, beaten but committed to returning South in a larger cause.
Beginning in 1944, the play follows László Rajk and his wife Julia through anti-Nazi resistance, political imprisonment, a coerced false confession, Rajk’s execution and Julia’s later arrest after the Hungarian uprising.
At a Christmas reunion, former Illinois college friends confront the consequences of their 1930s political beliefs. A brilliant mathematician who once supported Soviet Russia has become dispossessed and is shut out of jobs, housing and social life because of his associations.
Brooks Atkinson, writing for The New York Times, gave this description of the play: Somewhere in the northwest side of Chicago in the Polish district live the Dzieszienewskis, the mother being an immigrant, the children being assimilated Americans and ambitious. She is an unprincipled strumpet whose blood boils in the Spring. Taking America as they have learned it from notorious Americans, her children are versatile nincompoops. One son is a melancholy baseball player in the Texas League, another is studying to be a cheap politician, a third is president of the Killers Club in the State penitentiary, and the daughter is a chorus girl who dreams of Hollywood. The plot of the play revolves around the imprisoned son, who has escaped for a weekend in order to see his family, and incidentally, to kill the Polish politician who set him up eight years earlier. He plans on returning to prison before he is known to be missing.
At an isolated Lake Michigan lighthouse, keeper Charleston retreats into an imagined world of shipwrecked travelers from the past, while his friend Streeter urges him to rejoin society. The travelers' faith in Charleston's courage renews his resolve to help build a better future amid the chaos of war.
Railroad engineer Casey Jones treats his locomotive as an escape from a world he does not understand. As he loses his sight, neglects his family, and is forced to retire, his loyalty to the railroad leaves him confronting a life spent in its service.
A fictional one-act play set during the Battle of the Alamo.
The author described the play as "A proletarian love story of pleasant dimensions." It tells the story of Kitty, an independent-minded waitress in a cheap cafe in a Midwestern industrial district, and Dan Grimshaw, "a boat-builder with more pride in craft than business sense." Atkinson gives the following summary: She has been in love with an amiable thug who promotes himself to labor union racketeering, and has coldly deserted her. By force of circumstances the waitress and the boat-builder are thrown together on the houseboat, where he lives on the mudflats, and they find that their notions of life are congenial. During a bogus strike the racketeer comes back, claims his old girl and takes her. The rest of the play is the story of how the uncontaminated pair learn how to get tough about it and save the decencies of their private principles in a world that is seething with violent corruption.
A Black veteran returns to his rural Southern home with an artificial leg and the skill to operate an adding machine, but the job he pursues is considered a white man's work. Facing relentless opposition, he ends up in Harlem, beaten but committed to returning South in a larger cause.
Beginning in 1944, the play follows László Rajk and his wife Julia through anti-Nazi resistance, political imprisonment, a coerced false confession, Rajk’s execution and Julia’s later arrest after the Hungarian uprising.
At a Christmas reunion, former Illinois college friends confront the consequences of their 1930s political beliefs. A brilliant mathematician who once supported Soviet Russia has become dispossessed and is shut out of jobs, housing and social life because of his associations.
Brooks Atkinson, writing for The New York Times, gave this description of the play: Somewhere in the northwest side of Chicago in the Polish district live the Dzieszienewskis, the mother being an immigrant, the children being assimilated Americans and ambitious. She is an unprincipled strumpet whose blood boils in the Spring. Taking America as they have learned it from notorious Americans, her children are versatile nincompoops. One son is a melancholy baseball player in the Texas League, another is studying to be a cheap politician, a third is president of the Killers Club in the State penitentiary, and the daughter is a chorus girl who dreams of Hollywood. The plot of the play revolves around the imprisoned son, who has escaped for a weekend in order to see his family, and incidentally, to kill the Polish politician who set him up eight years earlier. He plans on returning to prison before he is known to be missing.
At an isolated Lake Michigan lighthouse, keeper Charleston retreats into an imagined world of shipwrecked travelers from the past, while his friend Streeter urges him to rejoin society. The travelers' faith in Charleston's courage renews his resolve to help build a better future amid the chaos of war.