Lynn Riggs

Big Lake: A Tragedy in Two Parts, the first of Riggs's plays produced in New York, depicts the trials faced by Betty and Lloyd, two teenagers who, after wandering away from a school picnic, become victims of a sinister older couple in whose cabin they seek shelter.

In WWII a, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

The author of numerous plays and film scripts, including Green Grow the Lilacs, later made into the hit musical Oklahoma , Lynn Riggs is recognized as one of America's most engaging dramatists and was the only active American Indian dramatist during the first half of the twentieth century. A mixed-blood Cherokee, Riggs wrote about the people, places, and events of the Oklahoma he knew so well. A cattle rancher's son, Riggs was born in the Verdigris Valley south of Claremore in Indian Territory. He first gained recognition as a poet in the early 1920s while attending the University of Oklahoma and later moved to New York, where he worked on and around Broadway. In 1927 Riggs was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and while in France on that fellowship, he began writing Green Grow the Lilacs, which Rodgers and Hammerstein made into the Broadway musical Oklahoma in 1943. By the end of his life, Riggs had written some thirty plays and scripts for fourteen films produced between 1930 and 1955.