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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, for the use of college and university theatres,
Little Theatres and other types of non-professionals in the United
States, Canada, and other English-speaking countries. Please send for
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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
BEYOND THE
HORIZON
By
EUGENE O’NEILL
PUBLISHED FOR
THE DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE
_by_
RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK
_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 }
ROBERT MAYO } _sons of_ JAMES MAYO
RUTH ATKINS
MRS. ATKINS, _her widowed mother_
MARY
BEN, _a farm hand_
DOCTOR FAWCETT
ACT I
SCENE I: The Road. Sunset of a day in Spring.
SCENE II: The Farm House. The same night.
ACT II
(_Three years later_)
SCENE I: The Farm House. Noon of a Summer day.