Provincetown 2012
an evening of one-acts

by
Floyd Dell ~ Louise Bryant
Pendelton King ~ Eugene O'Neill
Adapted by MICHAEL BLEVINS

Comedy/Drama
Full-Length

2-5 men, 3-7 women; [flexable cast, doubling possible]
Sets are as minimal or elaborate as desired

THE STORY: PROVINCETOWN 2012, the prolific writing team of Eugene O’Neill, Louise Bryant, Floyd Dell and Pendelton King, were all writers of one-acts originally produced by the historic Provincetown Players. Michael Blevins, Artistic Director of New York’s Group Theatre Too LLC has adapted, edited and restored this near-century old collection of critically-historic plays in an effort to make them more 2012-friendly and accessible to a new, youthful American generation of theatre goers. PROVINCETOWN 2012 is comprised of four one-act plays from the premier New York productions of the Provincetown Players, an early 20th Century theatre group of American writers and artists that changed the course of American drama and launched the careers of Eugene O’Neill and Susan Glaspell while helping to expand the Little Theatre movement across the nation. This eclectic group of plays is a full-evening of comedic and dramatic entertainment. Marxist poet and playwright, Louise Bryant presents Life and Death as characters who roll the dice for control over the souls and fates of two young people, a poet/musician and dancer. Socialist poet and playwright, Floyd Dell, comically uncovers a couple of lovers who wrestle with their sexual urges because they are both married. . . to other people. In a dramalogue, Eugene O'Neill depicts the last stages of a domestic struggle in a unique way by presenting only one onstage character and one offstage that never appears or speaks except for a quick appearance of his arm. Once everything is said and done the wife subsides into silence and a moment later we realize that the most desperate of things has occured in the next room. Pendelton King contributes an ironic-tragedy of a washed-up prizefighter and prostitute who survive in the seediest of back rooms in the South Bronx. Also, included in the full-evening’s presentation is a two-minute “bonus” or “easter egg” play that occurs as the audience is leaving the theater! Provincetown 2012, is