45144X1 First Edition. A Spotlight Dramabook. Hill and Wang, New York: 1965. 116 pages. Softcover. Good condition. Thirty-two young actors and actresses, portraying whores, hustlers, junkies, and homosexuals of both sexes, filled the stage of New York's Cafe La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in the winter of 1965 to premier Balm in Gilead. Overflow audiences, tired of commercial Broadway and timid off-Broadway, came to see a production in one of the new centers of American theatre activity, Off-Off-Broadway, where for several years the avant-garde of the 1960s had been working in coffee-house theatres, lofts, and churches. The best known of these new playwrights, Lanford Wilson, who originally came from Ozark, Missouri, startled the audience of Balm in Gilead with his vivid illumination of the bleak world of exiles and outcasts. The other plays included are Ludlow Fair and Home Free. ISBN: 0809012081 $5.45USD
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