Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre
Author: John Gassner
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 774
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Author: John Gassner
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 774
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: August Wilson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781559361873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugust Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 904
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephanie Coen
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAudition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.
Author: John Gassner
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 792
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Adjmi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1472503430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall's Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn's Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.
Author: Julia A. Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-30
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1139446274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
Author: Brian Nelson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781557833143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Applause Books). Includes: Amy Hill: Tokyo Bound ; David Henry Hwang: Bondage ; Velina Hasu Houston: As Sometimes in a Dead Man's Face ; Lane Nishikawa and Victor Talmadge: The Gate of Heaven ; Dwight Okita: The Rainy Season .
Author: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 2021-03-18
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 0822239663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place…! FAIRVIEW is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of white supremacy.