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Two verse plays that begin with the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln and end with his assassination. LINCOLN is backgrounded by the entire length of the Civil War, portraits of Stanton, Lee, Meade, Grant, and other principals, and numbers of common soldiery. Epic in size, the plays are also noted for their accuracy and the "trenchant driving rhythms" of the verse. "You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is...

I have little doubt that Robert Manns is America's most accomplished living playwright." -J. Brian Smith

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With the loosening of constraints on what may be discussed and portrayed in plays dealing with homosexuality, similar relaxation should be expected for heterosexual works. Within the bounds of good taste, of course. And taste, like time, alters. Hopefully, the time is now. *** In an age of miniaturization, the one-act play should find itself at home. People do attend concertized etudes, most often for the piano, and that is precisely what a on...

After the American Revolution, Scottish immigrant James Swan entered the businesses of real estate and shipping. Becoming friends with many of the luminaries of the times, his businesses expanded to France, where he was accused of a two million franc debt owed to the government of Napoleon, perhaps in taxes, which he refused. Swan, although he could easily afford the payment, refused to pay "on principle" and was committed to debtor prison. He...

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You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is all your own. It wasn't imposed on the characters: it spoke for them." -Christopher Fry "I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented.playwrights in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial theater. His choice of style is unique, his imagination boundless, and his dedication intense. And I believe he has a real gift for the theater." -Alan Schneider

Tragedy is the heartiest of theater. It wakens us by calling to our senses more completely than any other medium. And it is successful only when the write can make his audiences savor every minute of it. The author.

The Smithson Matter, together with its one-act Introduction, recounts the personal and political maneuvers behind the creation of the great Smithsonian Institute. The Introduction presents James Smithson, né Macie, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Northumberland and the fashionable Elizabeth Macie. Frustrated by the English class society that stigmatizes him and inspired by the equality of the new American States, he resolves to leave his f...

In an age of miniaturization, the one-act play should find itself at home. People do attend concertized etudes, most often for the piano, and that is precisely what a one-act play is-an etude. Sometimes it's a character study, others a piece of action, still others a complete little story, and several strung together selectively can make a program.

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A powerful play on Lincoln's tenure in the White House from inauguration to assignation, the period of his superb greatness. Backgrounded by the devastating civil war, it presents Mary, Grant, Seward, Lee, Meade, Stanton, common soldiery and others of the time by a playwright whose skills should make him of major interest.

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Cry the Loon" is a domestic tragedy laid in the author's own hometown. "The Avian Connection" is a comical fantasy dealing with an ornithologist's belief that man and bird evolved from the same source, the warm-bloodied archaeopteryx.