Out of This Furnace

Year of Publication
1977
Publication Type
Playscript
Number of Pages or Episodes
54 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Julia Royall Swoyer
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Abstract
A theatrical adaptation of the 1941 novel about three generations of an immigrant Slovak and Rusyn family—the Dobrejcaks—from 1881 to 1937 in the steel mills of Braddock and Homestead.
Notes
Based on a novel by Thomas Bell (1903—1961). Opened at the USW Hall in Braddock, Allegheny County on November 2, 1977. The script is held at the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library.
Author Biography
Julia Royall was educated at the University of South Carolina and Carnegie Mellon University. In 1976, Royall co-founded the Iron Clad Agreement, a touring theater company. She later worked at the National Institute of Health's National Library of Medicine and was a Fulbright Scholar to Uganda.
Time
1881-1914
Published
unpublished
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