Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand’s compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, a 1935 Broadway success famous for leaving the verdict to the audience, is presented here in its definitive, final revised text—a superb dramatization of Rand’s vision of human strengths and weaknesses. Also included are two of Rand’s unproduced plays: Think Twice, a clever philosophical murder mystery, and Ideal, a bitter indictment of people’s willingness to betray their highest values, as symbolized by a Hollywood goddess suspected of a crime and fleeing the authorities.
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"The narrator really brought these 3 early works (plays) of Ayn Rand to life. "Think Twice" is the most amazing of the three. "
— Amy (5 out of 5 stars)
“Robin Field’s reading is astonishing. If listeners were told that they were listening to a full-cast production, none would doubt it.”
— SoundCommentary.com (starred review)" Read The Night of January 16th in this edition. Ideal and Think Twice read in The Early Ayn Rand. "
— Whitney, 11/23/2010" "The night of January 16" is the one to read "
— Russell, 9/17/2008Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was born in Russia, graduated from the University of Leningrad, and came to the United States in 1926. She published her first novel in 1936. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943, she achieved a spectacular and enduring success, and her unique philosophy, Objectivism, gained a worldwide following.
Robin Field is the AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator of numerous audiobooks, as well as an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and lyricist whose career has spanned six decades. He has starred on and off Broadway, headlined at Carnegie Hall, authored numerous musical reviews, and hosted or performed on a number of television and radio programs over the years.