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Rosalind Lacy MacLennan, who hails from Los Angeles, has enjoyed writing for DCTheatreScene since 2006. A 20-year journalism veteran, with newspapers such as the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, the Butler Eagle in Pennsylvania, the Suburban Newspapers of Northern New Jersey, Rosalind won a MD-DC press award for the Montgomery Journal in 1999. Since Rosalind’s heady days training and performing professionally in summer stock out of New York City, Rosalind has taught drama in high school, directed and acted in community theaters, and is the proud mother of three young adults. Still an avid theater nut, Rosalind is a former board member of www.Footlightsdc.org, and an aficionada of Spanish theater.
July 13, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Roz, thank you for the long,long review of Gore Vidall’s play. I read it, fasinated. so he has retired to Hollywood? great writer. Ernest
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Visit to a Small Planet Paperback – Jan. 1 1958
- Language English
- Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
- Publication date Jan. 1 1958
- Dimensions 13.34 x 0.64 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-10 0822212110
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- Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (Jan. 1 1958)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0822212110
- ISBN-13 : 978-0822212119
- Item weight : 90.7 g
- Dimensions : 13.34 x 0.64 x 19.69 cm
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Gore Vidal has received the National Book Award, written numerous novels, short stories, plays and essays. He has been a political activist and as Democratic candidate for Congress from upstate New York, he received the most votes of any Democrat in a half-century.
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Visit to a Small Planet. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) Paperback – January 1, 1998
- Print length 72 pages
- Language English
- Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
- Publication date January 1, 1998
- Dimensions 5.25 x 0.25 x 7.75 inches
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- Item Weight : 3.2 ounces
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- #3,592 in American Dramas & Plays
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Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 American black-and-white science fiction comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman, and Fred Clark.Distributed by Paramount Pictures, it was produced by Hal B. Wallis.. Visit to a Small Planet debuted as an original television production by Gore Vidal, then was reworked by Vidal as a Broadway play starring ...
Complete summary of Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Visit to a Small Planet. Select an area of the website to search
Visit to a small planet : a comedy akin to vaudeville Bookreader Item Preview ... Vidal, Gore, 1925-Publication date 1957 Topics Drama, American drama Publisher Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana Contributor Internet Archive
Visit to a Small Planet (1957) is Gore Vidal's classic satirical play on the dangers of war and militarism. The setup comes straight from science fiction: an alien named Kreton comes to earth in the hopes of witnessing the American Civil War, only to find out that he came 100 years too late, at the height of the nuclear age. ...
Gore Vidal once labeled himself America's "current biographer," and Visit to a Small Planet can certainly be read and enjoyed as a satirical chapter in the political and cultural biography of the United States. Satire creates its effects by mocking human behaviors and assumptions in an effort to raise a reader or viewer's awareness of ...
Visit to a Small Planet: Directed by Norman Taurog. With Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman, Fred Clark. The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...
Review of Visit to a Small Planet in the New York Times, February 8,1957, p. 18. Salzman, Jack, editor. "Gore Vidal," in The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature, Cambridge University Press ...
having starred in visit to a small planet in the original broadway play as the 'juvenile' opposite the then reigning ingenue of innocence sex and sass, namely sarah marshall, daughter of herbert marshall, and i, conrad janis, playing 'conrad' had a royal blast in this quixotic, brilliant satire with a lot of 'english' on the ball.
sion of his science-fiction comedy Visit to a Small Planet. Studio One's sponsor, how-ever, would not allow it to be produced, and the play was eventually put on by Philco-Goodyear Playhouse. Visit to a Small Planet was aired on 9 May 1955 and was an imme-diate success. Soon, Vidal was asked by George Axelrod to write a longer version and
Visit to a Small Planet: A Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville Gore Vidal Snippet view - 1957. ... Gore Vidal was born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. on October 3, 1925 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He did not go to college but attended St. Albans School in Washington and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in ...
Visit to a Small Planet, the original play by Gore Vidal, the master wordsmith, is a tightly written, intellectually challenging treasure, a worthy but neglected American play. Visit to a Small Planet runs thru Aug 6, 2011 at Gunston Theatre Two, 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington, VA. Visit to a Small Planet. Highly recommended.
Analysis and discussion of characters in Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet. Select an area of the website to search ... "Visit to a Small Planet - Characters." Drama for Students, Vol. 2. Gale ...
VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET By Gore Vidal The Goodyear Television Playhouse May 8, 1955 Director: JACK SMIGHT Producer: GORDON DUFF Associate Producer: ROBERT ALAN AURTHUR ... KRETON: Simply a visit to your small planet. I've been studying it for years. In fact, one might say, you people are my hobby. Especially, this period of your development.
As told by the New York News, VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET "is an imaginative affair in which an alien comes from another planet to do a bit of sightseeing and to see or start a war. ... Gore Vidal. One of Broadway's big hits. "…gloriously funny…an almost endless barrage of freshly-minted quips to keep the merriment rolling." —NY Herald-Tribune.
having starred in visit to a small planet in the original broadway play as the 'juvenile' opposite the then reigning ingenue of innocence sex and sass, namely sarah marshall, daughter of herbert marshall, and i, conrad janis, playing 'conrad' had a royal blast in this quixotic, brilliant satire with a lot of 'english' on the ball.
The film started out as a satirical play Visit to a Small Planet (1957) by the famous essayist and novelist Gore Vidal, who is probably best known as the author of Myra Breckinridge (1968). Of course, when it came to the film adaptation, Visit to a Small Planet was turned into a vehicle for Jerry Lewis.
Visit to a Small Planet. Hardcover - January 1, 1957. by Gore Vidal (Author) 4.1 6 ratings. See all formats and editions. The story, as told by the New York News, "is an imaginative affair in which an alien comes from another planet to do a bit of sightseeing and to see or start a war. He thinks he has arrived just in time for the Civil War ...
July 31, 2010. Edited by WorkBot. merge works. April 1, 2008. Created by an anonymous user. Imported from Scriblio MARC record . Visit to a small planet by Gore Vidal, 1959, Dramatists Play Service edition, in English - Rev.
8/10. Classic Science Fiction Comedy. Dejael 26 November 2002. A bumbling, clowning alien visitor named Kreton observes the ways of humans here on Earth. Arriving in Richmond, Virginia in Civil War costume in 1960, he believes he is just in time to witness the beginnings of the Civil War, but is off by 100 years.
Themes. The plot of Visit to a Small Planet concerns Kreton, an alien visitor, who invades a middle-class home in 1957 America. After he announces his plans to engage the world in a full-scale war ...
Gore Vidal. Overview. As told by the New York News, VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET "is an imaginative affair in which an alien comes from another planet to do a bit of sightseeing and to see or start a war. He thinks he has arrived in time to see the Civil War, which he expects will be jolly, but he has misjudged his landing and gets here in 1957. ...
Visit to a Small Planet was first presented on February 7, 1957 at the Booth Theatre, New York City. The action of the play takes place in the house of Roger Spelding outside Manassas, Virginia. The time is next summer. Act I Early evening of a summer's day. Act II Scene 1: The next morning. Scene 2: That evening. Act III An hour later.
What is the background of Gore Vidal's play Visit to a Small Planet? In "Visit to a Small Planet," why is the situation given to Paul Laurent and who is he?