The Cherokee night and other plays
By: Lynn Riggs ; foreword by Jace Weaver.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Drama.; Cherokee Indians -- Drama.; Cattle drives -- Drama.; Ranch life -- Drama.; Cowboys -- Drama.; Murder -- Drama.; Oklahoma -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Description: The author of numerous plays and film scripts, including Green Grow the Lilacs, later made into the hit musical Oklahoma , Lynn Riggs is recognized as one of America's most engaging dramatists and was the only active American Indian dramatist during the first half of the twentieth century. A mixed-blood Cherokee, Riggs wrote about the people, places, and events of the Oklahoma he knew so well. A cattle rancher's son, Riggs was born in the Verdigris Valley south of Claremore in Indian Territory. He first gained recognition as a poet in the early 1920s while attending the University of Oklahoma and later moved to New York, where he worked on and around Broadway. In 1927 Riggs was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and while in France on that fellowship, he began writing Green Grow the Lilacs, which Rodgers and Hammerstein made into the Broadway musical Oklahoma in 1943. By the end of his life, Riggs had written some thirty plays and scripts for fourteen films produced between 1930 and 1955.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-343).
Table of contents: title: Green grow the lilacs; title: The Cherokee night; title: Out of dust.