An award-winning drama performed to great acclaim at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Other Place in 2004 and, a one-act version in the RSC’s Fringe Festival of 1997, and a winner in... More > the 1999 West Midland Arts New Writing Festival: ‘A highly accomplished work ... virtually faultless ... provides three substantial roles for women, much more challenging than are found in modern stage drama.’ The Soho Theatre reviewer: ‘incredibly absorbing and entertaining. Warm and unexpectedly moving. Wonderful play, credible characters and dialogue with a very emotional ending out of the blue’.< Less
An award-winning drama performed to great acclaim at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Other Place in 2004 and, a one-act version in the RSC’s Fringe Festival of 1997, and a winner in... More > the 1999 West Midland Arts New Writing Festival: ‘A highly accomplished work ... virtually faultless ... provides three substantial roles for women, much more challenging than are found in modern stage drama.’ The Soho Theatre reviewer: ‘incredibly absorbing and entertaining. Warm and unexpectedly moving. Wonderful play, credible characters and dialogue with a very emotional ending out of the blue’.< Less
TRIFLES
First performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre, Provincetown, Mass., August 8, 1916.
GEORGE HENDERSON (County Attorney)
HENRY PETERS (Sheriff)
LEWIS HALE, A neighboring... More > farmer
MRS PETERS
MRS HALE
SCENE: The kitchen is the now abandoned farmhouse of JOHN WRIGHT, a gloomy kitchen, and left without having been put in order—unwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, a dish-towel on the table—other signs of incompleted work. At the rear the outer door opens and the SHERIFF comes in followed by the COUNTY ATTORNEY and HALE. The SHERIFF and HALE are men in middle life, the COUNTY ATTORNEY is a young man; all are much bundled up and go at once to the stove. They are followed by the two women—the SHERIFF's wife first; she is a slight wiry woman, a thin nervous face. MRS HALE is larger and would ordinarily be called more comfortable looking, but she is disturbed now and looks fearfully about as she enters.< Less
This book includes three of the most popular plays of the late Russian playwright Eugene L. Shvarts. Like, for example, his contemporary - late Czech playwright Karel Capek, he is considered... More > worldwide to be the author of classical pieces. It means that his plays (the best of them) are having double lives: one-in time of their appearance, and another in our time (or any time in the future, when they still wouldn't be obsolete and forgotten). The three plays included in this book - Dragon, Shadow, Ordinary Miracle. The author of translation - Anna V. Epelbaum is happy to have an opportunity to give English reading audiences the great pleasure to become familiar with the inheritance of Eugene L. Shvarts. Read, enjoy, and be grateful to the translator.< Less
This book includes three of the most popular plays of the late Russian playwright Eugene L. Shvarts. Like, for example, his contemporary - late Czech playwright Karel Capek, he is considered... More > worldwide to be the author of classical pieces. It means that his plays (the best of them) are having double lives: one-in time of their appearance, and another in our time (or any time in the future, when they still wouldn't be obsolete and forgotten). The three plays included in this book - Dragon, Shadow, Ordinary Miracle. The author of translation - Anna V. Epelbaum is happy to have an opportunity to give English reading audiences the great pleasure to become familiar with the inheritance of Eugene L. Shvarts. Read, enjoy, and be grateful to the translator.< Less
