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Johnny Johnson

Paul Green
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Johnny Johnson: The Biography of a Common Man in Three Acts

Music by Kurt Weill

The play was produced by the Group Theatre at the Forty-Fourth Street Theatre, New York City, November 19, 1936.

Johnny goes off to World War I in spite of his love for peace, and leaves behind his true love, Minny Belle, in their rural town. Naive and idealistic, Johnny baffles the recruiters and commanders, but still winds up fighting in Europe, where he manages to halt the war temporarily by attacking a meeting of the generals with laughing gas. When the leaders come to their senses, the war continues and Johnny is committed to an asylum where he is held for ten years. Meanwhile, Minny Belle has married the dreary town capitalist. Johnny is released and becomes a toymaker, still trying to spread peace in an increasingly warlike society.

As described by Robert Benchley: "The first anti-war play to use laughing gas in its attack on the stupidity of mankind, and to my mind the most effective of all satires in its class."
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
175 pages
Publication:
1937
Publisher:
Samuel French
Edition:
Language:
eng
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Johnny Johnson

Paul Green
3.33/5 (3 ratings)
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Johnny Johnson: The Biography of a Common Man in Three Acts

Music by Kurt Weill

The play was produced by the Group Theatre at the Forty-Fourth Street Theatre, New York City, November 19, 1936.

Johnny goes off to World War I in spite of his love for peace, and leaves behind his true love, Minny Belle, in their rural town. Naive and idealistic, Johnny baffles the recruiters and commanders, but still winds up fighting in Europe, where he manages to halt the war temporarily by attacking a meeting of the generals with laughing gas. When the leaders come to their senses, the war continues and Johnny is committed to an asylum where he is held for ten years. Meanwhile, Minny Belle has married the dreary town capitalist. Johnny is released and becomes a toymaker, still trying to spread peace in an increasingly warlike society.

As described by Robert Benchley: "The first anti-war play to use laughing gas in its attack on the stupidity of mankind, and to my mind the most effective of all satires in its class."
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
175 pages
Publication:
1937
Publisher:
Samuel French
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:

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