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Author: Murray Schisgal
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780822211501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORIES: THE TYPISTS. When Paul Cunningham reports for work addressing postcards for a mail-order house, he makes it clear to his fellow worker, Sylvia Payton, that his employment is strictly temporary. Paul, a married man, is studying law at n
Author: William W. Demastes
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1480397210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Applause Books). For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their lives and surroundings from sunup to sundown, sundown to sunrise. We learn to follow rules of proper behavior and more than happily issue out advice to our friends who just can't get a handle on themselves. Restraint and order, after all, are the cornerstones of human society and civilization. The problem is that human nature bucks and bridles at every attempt to socialize and civilize. Shakespeare got it right when he penned the observation, "The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree." In those few words he has managed to capture precisely why it is so difficult to be human; if it were okay simply to let our hot tempers prevail, life would be so much easier. But cold decrees are what prevent us from self-destruction, and so we endure the struggle.
Author: Glenn Young
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2000-02
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781557833174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Author: Gerald Hill
Publisher: Coteau Books
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1550506455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFounded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer, the Globe Theatre was Saskatchewan’s first professional theatre company, and, to this day, remains the only professional theatre-in-the-round in Canada. Inspired by their work with Brian Way’s theatre for children in London, England, the Kramers started the Globe as a touring company devoted to young audiences with a guiding philosophy of participation and access for all young people regardless of their location, economic means or initial interest in theatre. A program of six adult productions per season was soon developed as well. The Globe Theatre pioneered a playwright in residence program, featuring Rex Deverell, and the beginnings of professional theatre training in the province. Through the terms of its subsequent artistic directors, Susan Ferley and current director Ruth Smillie, it continues to offer high-quality performances to audiences, professional theatre training to artists and drama classes to children and adults. Through it all, Globe principals have also been high-profile participants in the debates, the struggles and the development of the artistic community of the province as a whole. This is, indeed, a social history to be remembered and celebrated.
Author: Howard Stein
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2000-05
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781557831675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Author: Eli Wallach
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780156031691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author recounts his early years in Brooklyn, struggles to become an actor, work with such stars as Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe, and role as one of the earliest members of the famed Actors Studio.
Author: William Goldman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780879100230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach production of one season is used as the basis for an examination of one aspect of the Broadway theater
Author: Judith Searle
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780879101947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Limelight). "At last, an in-depth book about the casting process that tells actors what it is like to be on the other side of the desk, and a must read for the aspiring casting director!" Marilyn Henry, coauthor, How to Be a Working Actor
Author: Colin Dolley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-01-30
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1408103168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard. This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre waiting to be discovered. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered as well as essential contact information and where to apply for performance rights. A chapter introducing the history of the one-act play rounds off the title as a definitive guide.
