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10 Minute Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 1m
Thornton Wilder
This short play, set in the room of a rising young composer, is part of Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons .
“A composer’s studio... The rising young composer, Gerald Marvin, is tearing up and down his room in an awful state...”
A temperamental young composer thinks he will “go mad” if he can’t identify the source of a melody running through his head. He wants to use it in the finale of a sonata he is composing–but, he says, only if it is his own. His long suffering wife tries to help. Enter a Spanish peddler and seamstress who, while working on a button, quietly begins to sing a song that changes everything.
This short play is included in the collection Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons.
This playlet, written in 1918, was published for the first time in 2009. Here, Wilder revisits the question he explored in Centaurs, also written in 1918: What are the sources-and the “ownership”–of artistic themes and ideas?
GERALD MARVIN
MRS MARVIN
MARIA BENTEDOS
A composer's studio.
Thornton Wilder: It's Time
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both drama (Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth) and fiction (The Bridge of San Luis Rey). He collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt, hiked the Alps with the heavyweight boxing champion ...