Adapted by Norman CorwinDramatic ComedyCharacters: 2 male, 1 femaleSimple Set Carl Sandburg's works, adapted by Norman Corwin, as first performed by Bette Davis and Lief Erickson, and a host of others in New York and on tour. The best of the Pulitzer Prize-winner's verse, including some previously unpublished, and prose, including the biography of Lincoln, and interspersed with optional American folk songs from his songbag. "Playful and seriou...
Excerpt from The RivalryIn the center of a slightly raked plank stage, stands a speaker's platform with removable railings. It suggests the elevated, improvised platforms used at outdoor political rallies in the days long before Madison Square Garden and tv.The edges of the raked stage go off L and R at an angle divergent from each other, so as to carry the eye into the drapes or shadow at the sides, leaving for the central area whatever is re...
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Note: The text of the debates derives from the stenographic record, although not always used here in their original sequence.
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Two Presidential candidates - one a rising Illinois legislator, the other a bombastic US Senator. Obama and McCain? Think again. In this transcendent Broadway play, the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates tackle the day's most passionate issue - slavery. Their battle comes to life through the eyes of Adele Douglas, wife of candidate Stephen Douglas. Challenged by the charming man from Illinois, she reexamines her basic beliefs about the American co...
Memos to a New Millennium: The Final Radio Plays of Norman Corwin presents, for the first time ever in print, a treasure-trove of radio plays spanning fifty years in the extraordinary career of radio's most famous dramatist. Subject matter for Corwin's radio plays varied greatly. He was equally at ease writing light comedy replete with mischievous rhymes as he was in crafting history lessons that although written with poetic language, strike h...
Norman Corwin is a Bostonian who at 17 started on a course that led him ultimately into almost all of the media. After ten years as a newspaperman, he then moved into radio and served as a writer-director-producer for CBS in the heyday of that network's glory.
Released in conjunction with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birthday, The Rivalry recreates the fiery face-off between the rising Illinois legislator Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The play features Academy Awards nominees Paul Giamatti in the role of Stephen A. Douglas and David Straithairn as Abraham Lincoln. Two Presidential candidates - one a rising Illinois legislator, the other a bombastic US Senator. Obama...
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