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  • A Time to Die
    Cover image (of Herbert Berghof) by Lamont O'Neal

    A Time to Die

    Eric Bentley

    This play is included in the collection:
    • A Time to Die & A Time to Live

    Performance Rights

    Play Description

    A TIME TO DIE might be regarded as a Sophocles Variation, inspired as it is by the ANTIGONE of Sophocles, and A TIME TO LIVE as a Euripides Variation being inspired by the ANDROMACHE of Euripides. This edition brings both into the twenty-first century.

    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
    Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: Short in Collection, The Plays Tags: Greek
    • Reviews
    • About the Author(s)
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    • Special Notes

    Press Quotes

    “Both [plays] are fascinating.” —Kevin Kelly

    “I experienced a powerful grip of terror and pity … A TIME TO DIE carries its message for today with enormous poetry.” —Lee Baxandall

    “They are so witty and so young.” —George Tabori

    “A rejuvenating experience.” —Joseph Chaikin

    “Nothing that I know of in recent theatre touches quite the moral depth of these plays.” —Tom F. Driver

    “Steeped in human passions on many levels, A TIME TO LIVE is a challenging play, an evocative play, and finally, a noble play.” —Stanley Richards

    Author(s)

    • Eric Bentley

      Eric Bentley was born in England in 1916, became an American citizen in 1948, in 1998 was inducted into the (American) Theatre Hall of Fame, and in 2011 won a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Scholar, critic, teacher, performer, translator, and, finally, playwright , he has had many books published and many plays and adaptations performed. Several of his critical works have become classics, notably The Playwright as Thinker, Thinking about the Playwright, and The Life of the Drama. Today, nine of his plays are published by Northwestern University Press in three volumes entitled RALLYING CRIES, MONSTROUS MARTYRDOMS, and THE KLEIST VARIATIONS. Four more Bentley titles have recently been published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc: ROUND ONE, ROUND TWO, A TIME TO DIE AND A TIME TO LIVE, and THE STERNHEIM TRILOGY. He died in August 2020.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 7/15/2011
    Pages 106
    ISBN 9780881454963

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    Premiered at HB Playwrights Theater in New York

    In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:

    A Time to Die is produced
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