Product Description: (Volume 3 covers 1953 to 1968) [Performed by a Full Cast] A chilling reenactment of the federal government's anti-Communist investigations. The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers...read more

Product Description: The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “dignified” manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

[LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.] [Edited by Eric Bentley][Introduction by Frank Rich][Read by a Full Cast - including Claire Bloom, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Theodore Bikel, J. Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Alex Hyde-White, Coleen Marlo, Richard McConagle, Stefan Rudnicki, Jim Meskimen, Ted Scott, Dean Sluyter, John Rubinstein]Thirty Years of Treason, VOLUME 1 covers 1938-1948. It is a fascinating look into the federal government's anti-Communist investigations. The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a ''dignified'' manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. ''Thirty Years of Treason'' serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record.

Examines the nature of modern drama, studying the styles and achievements of such playwrights as Ibsen, Strindberg, and Brecht

Product Description: Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition...read more

Product Description: Winner, 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics Thalia PrizeRecipient, 2007 The Robert Chesley Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in PlaywritingWinner, 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards Lifetime Achievement AwardSince their first meeting in Santa Monica, California in 1942, Eric Bentley has been Bertolt Brecht’s other, offstage voice...read more

Product Description: In the mid-1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to name names, and the steep price paid by those who refused...read more

Product Description: In the mid-1950's, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to "name names," and the steep price paid by those who refused...read more

Product Description: Eric Bentley's graceful look at George Bernard Shaw was first published over 50 years ago, and time has only strengthened the conviction of his ideas and arguments about Shaw. When it arrived in the late 1940's, this book was hailed by the great poet William Carlos Williams as "the best treatise on contemporary manners I think I have ever read...read more

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A tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized by the world around him, and especially by his teachers, shoots himself. The ending seems likely to be the suicide of Moritz'sfriend, Melchior, but in a confrontation with a mysterious stranger (the famous Masked Man) he finally manages to shed his illusions and face the consequences.

One-act plays deal with a humorous lecture, an aging actor, a desperate creditor, a hypochondriac, a suicidal civil servant, a wedding, and an overworked bank clerk