The Ground on which I Stand
Author: 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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Seven Black Plays
Author: Chuck Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeven winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.
Fences
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0593087585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.
The Directors Lab
Author: Evan Tsitsias
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780369100511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new manual containing the collected advice Evan Tsitsias has received from hundreds of directors all over the world through his decade of involvement with The Directors Lab.
King Hedley II
Author: August Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of an ex-con in post-Reagan Pittsburgh, 1985, trying to rebuild his life. Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century. 'By focusing on the eternal journey of the misplaced African, whose story was the truest account of the American struggle toward freedom and independence, he opened up not only what American theater could be about, but also who could do the telling' Marion McClinton, from her Foreword
African Theatre
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780253215390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.
The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007
Author: Barbara Parisi
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2010-04-20
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1557837473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Best American Short Plays). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our editor Barbara Parisi has selected the following 16 plays: DEBOOM: WHO GIVES THIS WOMAN? , by Mark Medoff; And Then , by Amelia Arenas; The Cleaning , by Zilvinas Jonusas; Breakfast and Bed , by Amy Fox; The News from St. Petersburg , by Rich Orloff; Double Murder , by Scott Klavan; Running in Circles Screaming , by Jeni Mahoney; Witness , by Peter Maloney; Asteroid Belt , by Lauren Feldman; Glass Knives , by Liliana Almendarez; Hearts and Minds , by Adam Kraar; In Conclusive Woman , by Julie (Pratt) Mollenkamp; Mixed MeSSages , by Mike Pasternack; Amoureque and Arabesque , by Victor Gluck; and The Birth of Theater , by Jules Tasca.
African Theatre
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780253214584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second annual volume in the African Theatre series focuses on the intersection of politics and theatre in Africa today. Topics include the remarkable collaboration between Horse and Bamboo, a puppet theatre company based in the United Kingdom, and Nigerian playwright Sam Ukala that was inspired by the infamous execution of Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists; the plays of Femi Osofisan; and plays by Ghanaian playwrights Joe de Graft and Mohammed Ben-Abdallah. African Theatre features the work of Mauritian playwright Dev Virahsawmy and includes an interview with him, reviews of an English production of his play, Toufann, as well as the translated playscript. Reports of workshops and conferences, reviews, and news of the year in African theatre make this volume a valuable resource for anyone interested in current issues in African drama and performance.
The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008
Author: Barbara Parisi
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781557837509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Theatre and Humanism
Author: Kent Cartwright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-09-09
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1139425994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theatre was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theatre - particularly the theory that Elizabethan plays are best seen in the tradition of morality drama - need to be reconsidered. He proposes instead that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting - rather than literary, elitist and dull as it has often been seen - and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other. Taking as examples the plays of Marlowe, Heywood, Lyly and Greene, as well as many by lesser-known dramatists, the book demonstrates the contribution of humanist drama to the theatrical vitality of the sixteenth century.
