Thomas Heggen

Now, in the waning days of the second World War, this ship lies at anchor in the glassy bay of one of the back islands of the Pacific. It is a Navy cargo ship. You know it as a cargo ship by the five yawning hatches, by the house amidships, by the booms that bristle from the masts like mechanical...

PREFACE This anthology is the latest volume of a series that represents the modern American theatre up to the mid-century mark, the season of 1950-51. Along with three previously published volumes, this book should furnish the reader with a chronicle since 1916 and with representative plays. The...