Making Plays
Making Plays

Author: Richard Nelson

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 9780571163540

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In the process by which a new play migrates from the desk of the person who wrote it to the stage where it comes to life in front of an audience, the relationship between playwright and director is crucial. And yet, through a combination of circumstance and theatre etiquette, there is little public knowledge of what actually goes on in the rehearsal room except when something goes badly wrong and the code of privacy is broken.

Making, Out
Making, Out

Author: David Demchuk

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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Includes: "Touch "by David Demchuk; 1by Ken Garnhum; "Capote at Yaddo "by Sky Gilbert; "2-2-Tango" by Daniel MacIvor; "Brave Hearts "by Harry Rintoul; and "Flesh and Blood "by Colin Thomas.

Creating Kabuki Plays
Creating Kabuki Plays

Author: Katherine Saltzman-Li

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-04-16

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9004193200

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This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, written 1801), being the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject of Kabuki playwriting. At the hand of this vital text, the author addresses the history, methodology, and practitioners of Kabuki playwriting of the Edo Period (1603-1867.) The reader will find a critical examination of Kezairoku, and discussions regarding the connections between the Kabuki and literary worlds of Edo Japan, and between playwriting and the oral arts. The availability of the entire Kezairoku in English, together with a full contextualization of its teachings and meanings, offers a volume of great significance to both Japan and theatre scholars.

Wolf Play
Wolf Play

Author: Hansol Jung

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-06-13

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1350429848

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"There's an unruly quality to Jung's idea of what theater can be, jagged and untethered, coy and dreamlike. It's thrilling to see that potential unleashed on the vagaries of love." New York Times A southpaw boxer is on the verge of their pro debut when their wife signs the adoption papers for a Korean boy: the boy's original adoptive father was all set to hand him over to a new home ... until he realizes the boy would have no 'dad'. Caught in the middle, the child launches himself in a lone wolf's journey of finding a pack he can call his own. Mischievous and affecting, Hansol Jung's Wolf Play deftly explores the intricacies of the families we choose and un-choose, and how far we would all go to defend our pack. Nominated for seven Lucille Lortel Awards after its initial production was postponed by the Covid-19 outbreak, Wolf Play is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Dustin Wills.

Directing Plays
Directing Plays

Author: Don Taylor

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780878300655

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Every aspect of producing a play is covered in this book, from selecting the play, preparations, working with designers & rehearsing with actors to opening night & the run. It is a useful book for all those interested in the directing process.

Studying Plays
Studying Plays

Author: Mick Wallis

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 135000734X

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Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, the book explores the essential elements of play texts, from character, dialogue and plot to theatrical space. With more in depth guidance on how to study plays in and as performance, both live and in recordings available online, the 4th edition of Studying Plays now includes: · new examples throughout the book drawn from a range of 21st-century plays by established and emergent writers for diverse theatres and companies · new explorations of how plays structure and engage audience response · a complete new section on the analysis of theatre of witness and testimony; monodrama; and postdramatic texts.

Play Directing
Play Directing

Author: Francis Hodge

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1317351029

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Play Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play, to working with actors and designers to bring the production to life. The authors emphasize that the role of the director as an artist-leader collaborating with actors and designers who look to the director for partnership in achieving their fullest, most creative expressions. The text emphasizes how the study of directing provides an intensive look at the structure of plays and acting, and of the process of design of scenery, costume, lighting, and sound that together make a produced play.

Advanced Hold’Em Volume 2
Advanced Hold’Em Volume 2

Author: Ryan Sleeper

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1532046812

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Advanced Holdem Volume 2 is the continuation of Advanced Holdem Volume 1. Volume 2 brings you even more of the necessary concepts for being successful in no-limit holdem cash games and tournaments. This book includes example hands and situations, as well as new advanced concepts for no-limit holdem games. Whether you play at home, in the casino, at a charity poker room, or on the internet, these concepts will help you improve your gameguaranteed! This book gives players a more detailed idea on how the advanced concepts in volume 1 (and the new concepts in volume 2) will help any player be successful in no-limit holdem. Learn when these advanced concepts are most important when increasing your skills to the highest levels by learning how to make the proper adjustments and making the correct plays almost every time. Advanced Holdem Volume 2 includes the following: 1. Gambling when youre unsure. 2. Blind poker. 3. Is bluffing underrated? 4. Making unusual plays. 6. Now youre a pro. 7. Advanced poker tells. 8. Squeeze plays. 9. Folding big hands preflop. 10. Calling with weak hands preflop. 11. Online poker secrets. 12. Setting traps.

Copenhagen
Copenhagen

Author: Michael Frayn

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 135001320X

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'Michael Frayn's tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session' Sunday Times 'A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation' Independent 'Frayn has seized on a ral-life historical and scientific mystery. In 1941 the physicist Werner Heisenberg, who formulated the famous Uncertainty Principle about the movement of particles, and was at that time leading the Nazi's nuclear programme, went to visit his old boss and mentor, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. What was the purpose of his visit to Nazi-occupied Denmark? What did the two old friends say to each other, particularly bearing in mind that Bohr was both half-Jewish and a Danish patriot?... Frayn argues that just as it is impossible to be certain of the precise location of an electron, so it is impossible to be certain about the workings of the human mind... What is certain is that Frayn makes ideas zing and sing in this play' Daily Telegraph