Around the world in 21 plays : theatre for young audiences / Around the world in twenty-one plays Theatre for young audiences edited by Lowell Swortzell. - New York : Applause, 1997. - viii, 690 p. ; 24 cm.

"An Applause original"--T.p. verso.

Introduction: Reading Plays -- Pt. 1. Plays from the Past for Performance Today. England: Jack Juggler. France: The Flying Doctor / Moliere. Italy: The Love of Three Oranges / Carlo Gozzi. England: Punch and Judy: Their Tragical Comedy, Their Comical Tragedy. Sweden: Lucky Peter's Journey / August Strindberg. Poland: Childhood Plays / Stanislaw Witkiewicz. France: Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters / Gertrude Stein. USA: Soul Gone Home / Langston Hughes -- Pt. 2. Plays by Contemporary Playwrights for Young Audiences. New York City: Maggie Magalita / Wendy Kesselman. Canada: The Ice Wolf / Joanna Halpert Kraus. Sweden: Medea's Children / Per Lysander and Suzanne Osten. Southern USA: Wiley and the Hairy Man / Suzan Zeder. Maryland: Escape to Freedom / Ossie Davis. Any Urban Slum: Rats / Israel Horovitz. USA: The Pinballs / Aurand Harris. Australia: No Worries / David Holman. New York City: A Visit from St. Nicholas, or the Night before Christmas / Lowell Swortzell. Tennessee: Big Mary / Mark Medoff. USA: Afternoon of the Elves / Y. York. China and San Francisco: Dragonwings / Lawrence Yep. England: How to Write a Play / Peter Terson -- Afterword: A New Age in Theatre for Young Audiences -- Play List: Other Plays of Interest.

A collection of plays by such authors as Moliere, August Strindberg, Langston Hughes, Susan Zeder, Wendy Kesselman, and Laurence Yep.

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