Fourteen (play)

Fourteen
Written byAlice Gerstenberg, 1919
Characters
  • Dunham
  • Mrs. Pringle
  • Elaine
Date premiered1919
Place premieredArthur Maitland's Theatre, San Francisco
SettingThe dining room of a New York residence

Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. This one-act social satire was first performed October 7, 1919 at the Maitland Playhouse, 332 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on a bill with three other one-act plays.[1] The San Francisco Chronicle remarked that it "gayly lampoons the question of dinner entertainments".[1] Arthur Maitland's company had just moved into a new 200-seat theater from its previous incarnation as the St. Francis Little Theatre Club in the Colonial Ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel.[2][3]

The play was originally published in the February 1920 issue of The Drama magazine. It is now a public domain work and may be performed without royalties.

  1. ^ a b "This Week's Attractions: Maitland", San Francisco Chronicle: E7, October 5, 1919
  2. ^ "New Maitland Theater Opens for Inspection", San Francisco Chronicle: E5, September 14, 1919
  3. ^ "The Stage", Town Talk: The Pacific and Bay Cities' Weekly, 32 (1330): 16–17, February 16, 1918