One of Paul Greenrsquo;s best plays; The House of Connelly; was the first play performed (on Broadway in 1931) by the renowned Group Theatre of New York. This book reintroduces the play; and the playwrightmdash;famous in his day; but largely forgotten now; although his outdoor symphonic drama The Lost Colony continues to be performed every summer in Manteo; North Carolina. The House of Connelly; is a more traditional drama; comparable to the writing of Tennessee Williams; and the editor asserts that the play deals more directly and fully with racial issues of the early 20th-century South than Williams did in his work. A new edition of the play includes both the original tragic ending and the revised ending Green wrote upon the Group Theatre directorsrsquo; request. The writing; production and publication history of the play is provided; as well as a scene-by-scene critical analysis and a discussion of the 1934 film adaptation; Carolina. The playrsquo;s theme is change and Green shows with both endings that the South had to change to survive.
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