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Title: Three Plays by Thornton Wilder ISBN: 0-06-092985-5 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Classics that are deserving of the term
Comment: Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town both were prize-winning plays. The Matchmaker became one of the most popular musicals of all time - Hello Dolly. Thornton Wilder's plays are in production at countless high schools across the country, and that's a pity - few students have the maturity or insight to bring these words strongly to life.
Skin of Our Teeth, the story of the Antrobus family in stone age Atlantic City, NJ, deals with indomitable humanity, and how we can prevail against all odds, but especially against our own impulses. It also brings up the consolations of literature and of past times.
Our Town is a simple little play about love and death, and how life is composed as a series of moments. It is so important to live in every, every, moment.
The Matchmaker is about living life to the fullest, even in the midst of grief and aging.
This makes these plays sound dreadfully simplistic, and full of high-school style morality. Thornton Wilder's writing is full of irony, wit, grace, kind humor, and style. His writing has a deceptive simplicity and rhythm. Read these plays to bring some beauty into your life.
Rating: 4
Summary: Looking Back at "The Skin of Our Teeth"
Comment: With the centenary of Wilder's birth in 1997, the Yale Repertory Theatre mounted a production of "The Skin of Our Teeth," probably the first professional one it had seen (in this country, anyway) in twenty years. Encountering the play for the first time since reading it in high school, I was struck by its notorious alleged similarities to FINNEGANS WAKE, which got Wilder in trouble when Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson pointed them out upon the play's first production. Although Wilder scholars have always been heatedly hostile towards Campbell and Robinson, there is no doubt that the two men were right: "The Skin of Our Teeth" is obviously inspired by and much indebted to FW (it is probably going too far to call the play an adaptation of Joyce's novel), and anyone doing what Wilder did today would be accused of plagiarism and be sued (and lose).
That said, the play can still hold the stage, although it is not as good a play as "Our Town," which uses the same modernist, fantastical conventions to much stronger effect. Does anyone actually read "The Skin of Our Teeth" these days, or do they buy the three-play book just for "Our Town"?
Rating: 5
Summary: Anyone searching for some good plays?
Comment: Thorton Wilder is one of the best playrights of his generation. This book brings together three of his best plays. "Our Town" which is a play centered around one town, and the way life can change within it. "the Skin of Our Teeth", which centers around one family that is going through all the changes that have ever happened in the world, including the ice age, world war 2, the depression, and so on. And finally "the Matchmaker" which is not the best play, but is still worth reading. Thorton Wilder does an amazing job with character developments and sub-plots, and these three plays really show his genius.
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Title: The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I by Thornton Wilder, Donald Gallup, A. Tappan Wilder ISBN: 155936131X Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder ISBN: 0060088877 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Theophilus North: A Novel by Thornton Wilder ISBN: 0060088923 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Heaven's My Destination : A Novel by Thornton Wilder ISBN: 0060088893 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays by Clifford Odets ISBN: 0802132200 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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