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 PLAYS FOR A FOLDING THEATRE

By Colin Campbell Clements Frontispiece by Ralph Barton

The seven plays contained in this book can be produced in any theatre and on any stage, no matter how inflexible. There are three Pierrot-Columbine plays, three plays of the East, and one of the sea—all of them artistic and planned, as the title suggests, for production on smali stages. For several of the plays Mr. Clements has de- signed sets. Three Lepers of Suk-El-Garab is being pro-

- duced this winter in the new French Theatre in Beyrouth, Syria, where Mr. Clements was living when he wrote the play several years ago.

The plays are: Pierrot in Paris. A morality play in one act, the moral being that he also sees who only sits and sits. In a little French café one night all life comes

to Pierrot. . . and passes him by. 20 minutes. (2m. 3w.) Columbine. A play in one act, wherein is shown that Love's experience can't teach Love's inexpe- rience nor thwart its verdant hope. 25 minutes. (2 w.) The Return of Harl A play in one act, with Har- lequin just returned from the war and face to face with an unexpected adventure—a little Harlequin. 20 min- utes. (1m. 1 w.) Three Lepers of Suk-El-Garab. A drama in one act, with all the color, music, and fatalism of the East. 25 minutes. (3 m.) The Desert. A drama in one act, based on an old Arabic legend told to the author one day in Damascus by an Arab sheik. 25 min- utes. (3m.6w.) The Siege. A drama in one act, on an actual experience in Arabia in 1920. Henry Bordeaux, of the French Academy, says of it: “I should like to see it done in French. r. Clements makes one feel that thing that is the East." 20 minutes. (3 w.) Moon Tide. Ap ay in one act in which the sea “crawlin’ up out of the black mud" avenges the murder of Old Hank, who “loved her as if she was human flesh and blood.” 20 minutes. (2 m.)

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