BEFORE BREAKFAST: A PLAY IN ONE ACT by O'Neill, Eugene - 1916

MP3 Audio CD. Before Breakfast (in One-Act Play Collection 002 ) CHARACTERS— MRS. ROWLAND SCENE—A small room serving both as kitchen and dining room in a flat on Christopher Street, New York City. In the rear, to the right, a door leading to the outer hallway. On the left of the doorway, a sink, and a two-burner gas stove. Over the stove, and extending to the left wall, a wooden closet for dishes, etc. On the left, two windows looking out on a fire escape where several potted plants are dying of neglect. Before the windows, a table covered with oilcloth. Two cane-bottomed chairs are placed by the table. Another stands against the wall to the right of door in rear. In the right wall, rear, a doorway leading into a bedroom. Farther forward, different articles of a man's and a woman's clothing are hung on pegs. A clothes line is strung from the left corner, rear, to the right wall, forward. It is about eight-thirty in the morning of a fine, sunshiny day in the early fall. Mrs. Rowland… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Before Breakfast (in One-Act Play Collection 002 ) CHARACTERS— MRS. ROWLAND SCENE—A small room serving both as kitchen and dining room in a flat on Christopher Street, New York City. In the rear, to the right, a door leading to the outer hallway. On the left of the doorway, a sink, and a two-burner gas stove. Over the stove, and extending to the left wall, a wooden closet for dishes, etc. On the left, two windows looking out on a fire escape where several potted plants are dying of neglect. Before the windows, a table covered with oilcloth. Two cane-bottomed chairs are placed by the table. Another stands against the wall to the right of door in rear. In the right wall, rear, a doorway leading into a bedroom. Farther forward, different articles of a man's and a woman's clothing are hung on pegs. A clothes line is strung from the left corner, rear, to the right wall, forward. It is about eight-thirty in the morning of a fine, sunshiny day in the early fall. Mrs. Rowland… Read More

NY: Frank Shay, 1916. First Edition. 12mo. The Provincetown Plays. Third Series. Atkinson A7-I-i . Wrappers binding A. Atkinson judges this issue to have priority over binding B. An about fine copy.

New York: Frank Shay, 1916. First Edition. First Edition. One of Eugene O'Neill's earliest plays, a one-act tragedy featuring one on-stage character, a cantankerous housewife named Mrs. Rowland. The production was originally staged by the Provincetown Players at their theatre at 139 MacDougall St. in Greenwich Village in December, 1916. The Provincetown production starred O'Neill himself as Mrs. Rowland's largely unseen husband. About Very Good in wrappers, with moderate toning on the edges, a four inch chip on the rear wrapper and final leaf, and faint foxing on the top right corner of the front wrapper. Owner stamp on the front pastedown.