Excerpt from Plays for Small Stages N 0 one can deny the present Dramatic Renaissance. Plays profitable and unprofitable, popular and unpopular, proper and improper, plays priggish and plays profane, are being presented, read, discussed, revised, written about and quarrelled over. The Drama is furiously to the fore and, in spite of the Movies, continues to hold the absorbed interest of an increasing number of people. In the midst of all this dramatic stir, this unrest of expression, certain ones, weary of being onlookers, arise and announce, We too will act, and others cry out, We too will write. 80 the Amateur providing his own cue, makes his entrance, and after being regarded a bit askance by The Profession is allowed to play his part. In the Spring of 1911 I cast an affectionate and calculating eye upon a small frame house next door. It was Shortly acquired; partitions and ceilings were pulled out, the lean-to kitchen be came the stage; dressing-rooms were added and a. Miniature theatre which we called The Playhouse was ready. In the five Summers since, a group of amateur players have presented some fifty one-act plays to the great pleasure and interest of themselves and the-alternate, sometimes mingled, amusement, surprise, disapproval and horror of their neighbors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.