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Thornton Wilder Comedy 3m, 2f (all adults) Exterior Millie the nursemaid brings baby Tommy to Central Park in the hopes of a rendezvous with the handsome Patrolman Avonzino. Mrs. Boker soon arrives with baby Moe, and as the two ladies trade snacks and advice on child rearing, the infants compare notes on their parents' bad behavior and pitiful lack of understanding. Babies act like grown-ups and grown-ups act like babies in this comedy about fulfilling basic human needs. Infancy was first produced at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York January 10, 1962, as one of three plays grouped as "Plays for Bleecker Street". It was televised in 1966, and repeated in 1970.
"It is wonderful to have an original, ever youthful and increasingly wise writer like Thornton Wilder back in the theatre."
--The New York Times
"All children, emerging from the egocentric monsterhood of infancy-
'Gimme! Gimme!' cries the Nero in the bassinet-are out to win their way-from their parents, playmates, from 'life,' from all that is bewildering and inexplicable in themselves. They are also out to win some expression of themselves as individuals."
-Thornton Wilder in The Paris Review Interviews, 1957 FEE: $45 per performance of single Wilder one act
$75 per performance of 3 Wilder one acts
$100 per performance of 4 or more Wilder one acts
Other Thornton Wilder titles available from Samuel French include:
The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun The Beaux' Stratagem Bernice Cement Hands Childhood The Drunken Sisters The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden In Shakespeare and the Bible The Long Christmas Dinner Love and How To Cure It The Matchmaker Our Town Pullman Car Hiawatha Queens of France A Ringing of Doorbells Rivers Under the Earth The Skin of Our Teeth Someone from Assisi Such Things Only Happen in Books Theophilus North The Wreck on the 5:25 Youth
Collections
Collected Plays and Writings on Theater The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume I The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder Three Plays (Thornton Wilder) Thornton Wilder One Act Series: Wilder's Classic One Acts Thornton Wilder One Act Series: The Seven Deadly sins Thornton Wilder One Act Series: The Ages of Man
Novels
The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Cabala and The Woman of Andros: Two Novels The Eighth Day Heaven’s My Destination The Ides of March Theophilus North
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