Short plays of the Philippines / Jean Edades.

Including advice for the amateur director by the editor.

Short plays of the Philippines first appeared in 1950 published by the late, much-loved Robert S. Hendry. It comprised fifteen playlets selected from among all the dramatic works by Filipinos that I could gain access to at the time. The 1950 edition contained eighteen plays, and the present volume reprints them all, besides Isabel Taylor's "The Efficiency Expert," which won Third Prize in the Annual Carlos Palanca One-Act Play Contest for 1957. This hilarious comedy was written too late for inclusion in More Short Plays o the Philippines, which appeared in 1957, but fortunately is here made available through the courtesy of Carlos Palanca, Jr. --From the foreword