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Author: Kurt Daw
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis complete guide to more than six hundred playable scenes and monologues from the theatre of Shakespeare's time is the most extensive offering of its kind.
Author: Jason Davids Scott
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781575258850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is organized a little differently than most published collections of monologues. Each chapter is arranged in several sections: About the Playwright List of Plays Playwright Information Performing the Monologues The Monologues
Author: Stephen Peithman
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Stage Directions Guide to Shakespeare offers sane, sensible advice on reasons to do (or not to do) Shakespeare, assessing your theatre group abilities, selecting a play, casting, making costume and set decisions, the special demands of directing and playing Shakespeare and publicity.
Author: William W. Demastes
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1495028887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Best American Short Plays). "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Really? Words can break spirits, destroy confidence. They can also build hope and incite great acts of heroism. Playwrights know this, and so do theater audiences. Otherwise, why go? Words matter and carry clout every bit as dangerous as a hammer or crowbar. This, too, playwrights know. The monologues in this volume are full of such blows, striking at our imaginations and our memories, generating responses such as joyful laughter or chilling surprise. Others squeeze us into worlds we've never experienced, or perhaps experienced at the furthest edges of memory and recollection. Still others may help us alter the way we see certain things, people, or beliefs. Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three is a collection of monologues drawn from the popular Best American Short Plays series, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today. Long or short, serious or not, excerpts or entireties, this collection abounds in speech acts that may trigger physical reactions and almost certainly will transform an attitude or two, drawing out lost memories, creating new ones, and definitely entertaining, engaging, amusing us all along the way.
Author: Peter Sklar
Publisher: Baker's Plays
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780874400205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce R. Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0191054410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, but it also takes the long view of how Shakespeare's texts have been cut apart in creative ways beginning in Shakespeare's own time. The book's five chapters consider cuts, cutting, and cutwork from a variety of angles: (1) as bodily experiences, (2) as essential parts of the process whereby Shakespeare and his contemporaries crafted scripts, (3) as units in perception, (4) as technologies situated at the interface between 'figure' and 'life,' and (5) as a fetish in western culture since 1900. Printed here for the first time are examples of the cut-ups that William S. Burroughs and Brion Guysin carried out with Shakespeare texts in the 1950s. Bruce R. Smith's original analysis is accompanied by twenty-four illustrations, which suggest the multiple media in which cutwork with Shakespeare has been carried out.
Author: Roger Ellis
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780916260934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the best professionally produced American plays.
Author: Jessica Bashline
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-11-22
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1493082132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theater of the 21st century, in many ways, is expanding to require new muscles of its actors, and so should their monologue choices. Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings is a compilation of monologues for actors ages 15 to 30, incorporating characters from a variety of backgrounds with different stories to tell, giving you the chance to explore those who are close to you and those who may come from someplace else. These monologues are compiled in order of length, with the shortest coming in a little under a minute and the longer pieces running closer to four minutes. All from plays written between 2000 and 2016, the monologues in this book are useful both for exploration in a classroom setting as well as for auditions. Jessica Bashline, adjunct professor of acting at New York University, has assembled a comprehensive collection, featuring work written by Neil LaBute, Sarah Ruhl, Zach Braff, Naomi Iizuka, and many more. Every playwright in this book is currently writing. Some of these plays have been produced on Broadway and some in tiny theaters in New York, Minneapolis, San Diego, or other cities around the country. This book offers a chance for emerging actors to explore work by playwrights, both emerging and established, that is truly contemporary.
Author: Simon Dunmore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1135860092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike the companion volume for men, Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Women brings together fifty speeches from plays frequently ignored such as Coriolanus, Pericles, and Love's Labours Lost. It also features good, but over-looked speeches from more popular plays such as Diana from All's Well That Ends Well, Perdita from The Winter's Tale and Hero from Much Ado About Nothing. Each speech is accompanied by a character description, brief explanation of the context, and notes on obscure words, phrases and references--all written from the viewpoint of the auditioning actor. It is the perfect resource for your best audition ever.
Author: Martin Middeke
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-10-17
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1408159678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean. Each essay features: A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright A discussion of their most important plays An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre A bibliography of texts and critical material
