Big lake

by Lynn Riggs

BIG LAKE

A Tragedy in
Two Parts

PLAYS BY

LYNN RIGGS

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Knives from Syria. Comedy in 1 act. In One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, 3rd Series. Samuel French.

Big Lake. Tragedy in 2 Parts. Samuel French.

Sump’n Like Wings. Not published.

A Lantern To See By. Not published.

HELEN COBURN AS “BETTY”

BIG LAKE
A Tragedy in Two Parts

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As produced by the American
Laboratory Theater, New York City
By
LYNN RIGGS

FOREWORD BY
BARRETT H. CLARK

SAMUEL FRENCH

Incorporated 1898

T. R. Edwards, Managing Director

NEW YORK CITY :: ::MCMXXVII

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SAMUEL FRENCH, Ltd. :::: :: London

All Rights Reserved
Copyright, 1927, by Lynn Riggs
Copyright, 1927, by Samuel French

This play is fully protected by copyright. All acting rights, both professional and amateur, are reserved in the United States, the British Empire, including the Dominion of Canada, and all countries of the Copyright Union, by the owner. Application for the right of performing this play or of reading it in public should be made to Samuel French, 25 West 45th Street, New York City.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC.
RAHWAY, N. J.

PROGRAM OF THE FIRST PRODUCTION, APRIL 8, 1927

The American Laboratory Theater (New York)
presents

BIG LAKE

By Lynn Riggs

Staged by George Auerbach

Betty	Helen Coburn
Lloyd	Frank Burk
Elly	Stella Adler
Butch	Grover Burgess
Sheriff	Louis V. Quince
Plank	John S. Clarke, Jr.
Joe	Francis Fergusson
Miss Meredith	Frances Williams
Bud Bickel	Sam Hartman
The Davis Boy	Harold Hecht

Country School Boys and Girls
Messrs. Kradoska, Hayes, Parsons, Fielding,
Williams, Curtis.
Misses Schmidt, Seymour, Titsworth, Johnson,
Squire, Smith.

Part 1—The Woods
Scene 1—The Woods
Scene 2—The Cabin

Intermission

Part 2—The Lake
Scene 1—A Cleared Place
Scene 2—The Lake

The action takes place in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, in the
year 1906
Settings designed by Lewis Barrington
Costumes designed by Gertrude Brows
Sets and costumes executed by the Laboratory Theater Workshop
Property Man Morton Brown

The Director and Actors are deeply grateful to Mme. Maria Ouspenskaya for the invaluable assistance she gave in the preparation of this production.