WELLER, Michael [Alan Schneider].
Moonchildren.
New York: Delacorte Press , 1971.
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First Edition of Moonchildren; Inscribed by Michael Weller to Alan Schneider, Director of the American Premiere
First American edition of Michael Weller's celebrated comic play of the 1960s generation, originally produced in London under the title Cancer. Octavo, original publisher's black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to the director Alan Schneider, "For Alan, Did you catch this one? With deep affection and anticipation of the next ten or twenty. Mike Weller. 17.7.72." The recipient, Alan Schneider, directed the American premiere of Moonchildren at the Arena Stage in Washington in November 1971 and the Broadway production that followed at the Royale Theatre in February 1972. Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States. He directed the American premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett's preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Harold Pinter's plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear and toning. An exceptional association copy uniting the playwright and the director of the American premiere.
Moonchildren is Michael Weller's acclaimed comic play about a group of college students sharing a ramshackle apartment on the eve of the upheavals of the late 1960s, a work that captured the mood of its generation with rare humor and unsentimental honesty. First produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 1970 under the title Cancer, it had its American premiere, retitled Moonchildren, at the Arena Stage in Washington in 1971 and reached Broadway at the Royale Theatre in February 1972, both productions directed by Alan Schneider. Though its first Broadway run was brief, the play was widely admired and enjoyed many later revivals, securing its place as one of the defining American plays about the 1960s. Its author, Michael Weller (born 1942), went on to write the screenplays for Milos Forman's films of Hair (1979) and Ragtime (1981), among many other works for the stage and screen.
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