Approaching Zanzibar
Author: Tina Howe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780573691287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of a family's travels from West Virginia to New Mexico.
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Approaching Zanzibar and Other Plays
Author: Tina Howe
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith her signature absurdism and lyrical language, acclaimed American playwright Tina Howe contemplates love, marriage, family, death, art and, ultimately, the very wonder of life. Including one of her first plays, Birth and After Birth, her most recent play, One Shoe Off, and the surrealistic masterpiece Approaching Zanzibar, this anthology encompasses a career of innovation and irreverence that spans three decades.
Painting Churches
Author: Tina Howe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780573619397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComic drama Characters: 1 male, 2 female Interior Set Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of
One Shoe Off
Author: Tina Howe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780573694417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comedy about marriage, fidelity, adulterous longings, existential panic and the theatre takes place in Leonard and Dinah's up state New York Greek revival farmhouse where slow moving disintegration is at work. Rooms are drifting into each other and trees and saplings have taken root indoors. Leonard is an actor who hasn't worked in eleven years; Dinah is an overworked costume designer who can't dress herself. They have invited their new neighbors, an overworked editor who delights in reciting nursery rhymes and his beautiful movie starlet wife, for dinner. Things explode when a friend who is a successful movie director, drops in. Old memories stir and new passions kindle as vegetables and Dinah's costumes fly.
Birth and After Birth and Other Plays
Author: Tina Howe
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1636701108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“[Birth and After Birth is] as appalling as it is perceptive…one of the more primal works by this woman who describes herself as a ‘well-mannered anarchist.’”—Newsday A revised edition of Howe’s early farce Birth and After Birth, about overweening parents and their four-year-old child. Also included are Approaching Zanzibar, a comedy about mortality, and the “rich, gorgeous and compelling” (New York Post) domestic drama One Shoe Off. Tina Howe was born and lives in New York City. Major honors include an Outer Critics Circle Award, an OBIE Award for Distinguished Playwriting, and a Tony Award nomination for her play Coastal Disturbances.
The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004
Author: Glenn Young
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781557836953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Shadowland
Author: Peter Straub
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0593818199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.
Reindeer Soup
Author: Joseph Pintauro
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780822215332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORY: Atop the arctic world, pilgrim members of a Detroit family huddle around a giant soup pot filled with nothing but melting ice and a gauze-wrapped raccoon head. The starving family awaits the return of Vince, the eldest, who has promised
Contemporary American Playwrights
Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780521668071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.
Crazy Like Us
Author: Ethan Watters
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-01-12
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1416587195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A blistering and truly original work of reporting and analysis, uncovering America’s role in homogenizing how the world defines wellness and healing” (Po Bronson). In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
