Publisher's Synopsis
Dawn explores the passions & emotions of a variety of workingmen; from the earliest shriek of the train whistle, and the rumble of truck engines, to the operatic whistle of the newsboy; the quarrels of the laboring force with each other, and with the fate of each! A play in one-act, running from an early morning to mid-day, reflecting on a span of years in the late 1930s. Ellis reflects firsthand on his youth in an immigrant community of the Great Depression era. "This play is a great work of literature. Truly on a par with the great works of Arthur Miller ... Eugene O'Neill ... Clifford Odets. DAWN simply must be published and produced!" Jenny NazakBorn in Michigan in 1920 to an extended immigrant family, Ellis worked loading produce with the strong and needy, like the characters in DAWN. A World War II Naval officer, Ellis attended 3 major universities, earned an MA in English and was a major Hopwood Award recipient in Drama at the University of Michigan.
