Three Plays by Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice
Street Scene
by Elmer Rice
Awards & Recognition
Pulitzer Prize
Winner! 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Synopsis
An outstanding Broadway success and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a panorama of the comedy and tragedy of daily life played to the accompaniment of rumbling elevated trains and the tooting of whistles.
Though this remarkable play is primarily a slice of life in a poor neighborhood, it is held together by a strikingly dramatic plot which has to do with a theatrical scene shifter whose wife has been having a sordid affair with the milkman.
The husband returns unexpectedly and kills them both.
The incident serves chiefly to crystalize the viewpoint and very human reactions of the entire neighborhood.
This modern classic that catches the varying moods of daily life as it is lived by millions in a large metropolis.
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| An Ice MAN |
| An Old CLOTHES MAN |
| Two Nurse MAIDS |
| Passers BY |
| A Letter CARRIER |
Videos
Street Scene, ENO, Kurt Weill
Publication
Street Scene is a play written by Elmer Rice and published by Samuel French .
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