Sing Me No Lullaby
Sing Me No Lullaby | |
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English | |
Setting | Illinois |
Sing Me No Lullaby is a 1954 play by
Synopsis
Brooks Atkinson gives the following description of Sing Me No Lullaby.
Some Illinois college friends of 1938 [ ] have a country reunion at Christmas of the present time. As students, most of them had what were known as progressive political ideas in 1938. One of them, a brilliant mathematician, placed his faith in Soviet Russia then. The Stalin-Hitler pact shook all that faith out of him in 1939. By the present time he is one of the dispossessed. Because of his college political associations, no one will employ him, no one will rent him an apartment, no one will associate with him, no one will clear him, no one will adjudicate his case.[3]
Reception
Sing Me No Lullaby received praise for its political content. The
Atkinson (quoted above) goes on:
Mr. Ardrey doesn't solve the problem. But the contribution he has made in the last act is a clear and perceptive statement of this nameless, formless situation and an estimation of what it is doing to America. ... Mr. Ardrey ... is a man of principle and taste. In Sing Me No Lullaby he has performed the function of a writer. He has found the words to describe something that is vague and elusive but ominous. And he has got far enough away from political recriminations to state it in terms of character and the life of the spirit.[3]
In a later
Production
Sing Me No Lullaby opened on October 14, 1954, at the
Sing Me No Lullaby is one of the two plays by Ardrey still made available for production by the Dramatists Play Service.[9] The other is his most famous play, Thunder Rock.[10]
References
- ^ Wertheim, Albert. "The McCarthy Era and the American Theatre." Theatre Journal, Vol. 34, no.2. "Insurgency in American Theatre. (May, 1982). Pp. 211-22. Print.
- ^ "Guide to the Phoenix Theatre Records". Yale Finding Aid Database.
- ^ a b Atkinson, Brooks. Quoted by Dramatist Play Service.
- ^ New York Times, quoted by Dramatists Play Service.
- ^ The New York Post, October 1954. Reprinted in New York Theatre Critics Reviews 15 (1954), p. 279. Print.
- ^ Atkinson, Brooks. "Sing No Lullaby" The New York Times, 24 October 1954. Print.
- ^ Houghton, Norris. Entrances & Exits: A Life in and Out of the Theatre. New York: Hal Leonard. 1991. Print.
- ^ Atkinson, Brooks. "Theatre: Phoenix Opens New Season." The New York Times, 15 October 1954. Print.
- ^ Sing Me No Lullaby at the Dramatists Play Service.
- ^ Thunder Rock at the Dramatists Play Service.