Synopsis

Act One

Act One $13

James Lapine from Moss Hart

Published by Dramatists Play Service

Large Mixed Cast
Adapted from the classic Moss Hart autobiogrphy ...

Growing up in an impoverished family in the Bronx, Moss Hart dreamed of being part of the glamorous world of the theatre

Forced to drop out of school at age thirteen, Act One plots Hart's unlikely collaboration with the legendary playwright George S. Kaufman, creating a funny, heartbreaking, and suspenseful play that celebrates the making of a playwright and his play Once in a Lifetime

This adaptation for the stage by Tony Award-winning writer and director James Lapine offers great fun to a director to utilize over fifty roles, which can be played by a cast as few as twelve, and in a production that can be done as simply or elaborately as desired

REVIEWS

" brims contagiously with the ineffable, irrational and irrefutable passion for that endangered religion called the Theater Act One critically reminds us, at a moment when it's easy to forget, of why so many of us fell head over heels for this cockamamie faith to begin with Hart captured the desperation, egotism, self-consciousness, illusionism and perverse certainty that made his escape possible" ~The New York Times

"A rollicking valentine to the theater" ~ Associated Press

" a fast-moving memory play tremendous fun, sweet and wise-wistful, [full of] insight into the joys and terrors of show business" ~ Time Out (New York

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