Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Established by members of the
Dramatists’ Guild of the Authors’
League of America for
the handling of the non-professional
acting rights of members’
plays and the encouragement of
the non-professional theatre.
BARRETT H. CLARK
Executive Director · The Dramatists Play Service, Inc.,
leases plays, including
Broadway successes, standard
plays of the past, and new plays
not yet professionally produced,
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and other types of non-professionals
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Advisory Board
SIDNEY HOWARD
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN
JOHN HOWARD LAWSON
HOWARD LINDSAY
ALBERT MALTZ
KENYON NICHOLSON
CLIFFORD ODETS
EDWARD CHILDS CARPENTER
EUGENE O’NEILL
PHILIP BARRY
ELMER RICE
ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
WALTER PRICHARD EATON
JOHN WEXLEY
GEORGE ABBOTT
MAXWELL ANDERSON
MARC CONNELLY
RACHEL CROTHERS
MARTIN FLAVIN
SUSAN GLASPELL
JOHN GOLDEN
ARTHUR HOPKINS
AUSTIN STRONG

6 EAST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY


Copyright, 1921, by Eugene O’Neill

Caution: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that Beyond the Horizon, being fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, the British Empire, including the Dominion of Canada, and all other countries of the copyright union, is subject to a royalty. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, public reading, radio broadcasting, and the rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved. In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only. All inquiries regarding this play should be addressed to Richard J. Madden Play Company, at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

The non-professional acting rights of Beyond the Horizon are controlled exclusively by the Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 6 East 39th Street, New York, N. Y., without whose permission in writing no performance of it may be made.

Manufactured in the United States of America

CHARACTERS

James Mayo, a farmer
Kate Mayo, his wife
Captain Dick Scott, of the bark Sunda, her brother
Andrew Mayo son of James Mayo
Robert Mayo son of James Mayo
Ruth Atkins
Mrs. Atkins, her widowed mother
Mary
Ben, a farm hand
Doctor Fawcett

[ACT I]
SceneI: The Road. Sunset of a day in Spring.
Scene II: The Farm House. The same night.
[ACT II]
(Three years later)
SceneI: The Farm House. Noon of a Summer day.
Scene II: The top of a hill on the farm overlooking the sea. The following day.
[ACT III]
(Five years later)
SceneI: The Farm House. Dawn of a day in late Fall.
Scene II: The Road. Sunrise.

BEYOND THE HORIZON
ACT ONE