The Secret Life
Play Description
Harley Granville Barker’s mostly forgotten masterpiece, THE SECRET LIFE (1923), has had only two productions, none in the United States and none during Granville Barker’s lifetime. This rich and deeply personal play, set in post-World War I England, charts a world that has become rudderless and lost and where love between a one-time rising politician and a woman draped in tragedy cannot be reignited. “The Heritage of the Actor,” included here, written as a companion piece to THE SECRET LIFE, is one of Granville Barker’s most concise and brilliant essays on the art of making theater.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male, doubling)Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
- Reviews
- About the Author(s)
- About the Book
- Special Notes
Press Quotes
[Granville Barker] stands, in my eyes, second to none of his contemporaries … I do not hesitate to say that I consider [his] plays the biggest things our modern movement has produced.” —William Archer (1922)
“It is a very great thing, that play of yours [THE SECRET LIFE].” — T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), 1923
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 11/17/2022 |
Pages | 142 |
ISBN | 9780881459357 |
Special Notes
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