Good evening, and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you

get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly.

And off we go. Tonight, let's relax with this handy guide to realizing our theatrical dreams, how to produce amateur plays, a practical How to Produce Amateur Plays A Practical Manual

By Barrett H Clark, published in 1923 in a new and revised edition by Little Brown and Company, Boston. Let's begin.

Preface to the revised Edition.

This book aims to supply the demand for a simple guide to the production of plays by amateurs.

During the past decade a number of books dealing with the subject have been published, but these are concerned either with theoretical and educational or else with limited and

from a practical viewpoint, unessential aspects of the question.

In the present manual the author has attempted an altogether practical work

which may be used by those who have little or no knowledge of producing plays.

The book is not altogether limited in its appeal merely to producers.

Actors themselves and others having to do with amateur producing will find it helpful.

The author has added a number of suggestions on a matter which is rapidly becoming a prime importance,

the construction of stages and setting, and the of amateur stage manager producing.

A careful study of it will enable the amateur stage manager to do much for himself,

which has heretofore been either impossible or attended with dire difficulty.

The plan of the book is simple.

Each question and problem is treated in its natural order, from the moment an organization

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