Everybody
Everybody

Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 0822237229

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This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living.

Monteverdi's Musical Theatre
Monteverdi's Musical Theatre

Author: Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780300096767

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Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is well known as the composer of the earliest operas still performed today. His Orfeo, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, and L'incoronazione di Poppea are internationally popular nearly four centuries after their creation. These seminal works represent only a part of Monteverdi's music for the stage, however. He also wrote numerous works that, while not operas, are no less theatrical in their fusion of music, drama and dance. This is a survey of Monteverdi's entire output of music for the theatre - his surviving operas, other dramatic musical compositions, and lost works.

blu
blu

Author: Virginia Grise

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 0300169221

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Memory, history, and culture collide with the starlit rooftop dreams of a myth-inspired character as Soledad and her partner, Hailstorm, redefine family on their own terms after the death of their eldest son in Iraq. blu, steeped in poetic realism and contemporary politics, challenges us to try to imagine a time before war. Selected as the winner of the 2010 Yale Drama competition from more than 950 submissions, Virginia Grise’s play blu takes place in the present but looks back on the not too distant past through a series of prayers, rituals, and dreams. Contest judge David Hare commented, "Virginia Grise is a blazingly talented writer, and her play blu stays with you a long time after you’ve read it." Noting that 2010 was a banner year for women playwrights, he added, "Women’s writing for the theatre is stronger and more eloquent than it has ever been."

Imogen Says Nothing
Imogen Says Nothing

Author: Aditi Brennan Kapil

Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780573707049

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A revisionist comedy in verse and prose featuring Imogen, a character who only appears in the first folio of William Shakespeare's Much Adoe About Nothing, speaks no lines, and is probably a typo. A feminist hijacking of Shakespeare that investigates the voices that have been absented from our canon, and the consequences of cutting them.

New Light Shine
New Light Shine

Author: Shannon Murdoch

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0300184859

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Announcing the 2011 winner in the Yale Drama Series

The Art of Dramaturgy
The Art of Dramaturgy

Author: Anne Cattaneo

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0300262388

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An introduction to the mysterious theater role of a dramaturg by a legend in the field Anne Cattaneo was among the first Americans to fill the role of dramaturg, one of theater’s best kept secrets. A combination of theater artist, scholar, researcher, play advocate, editor, and writer’s friend, it is the job of a dramaturg to “reflect light back on the elements that are already in play,” while bringing a work of theater to life. Cattaneo traces the field from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present and chronicles the multitude and variety of tasks a dramaturg undertakes before, during, and after a production is brought to the stage. Using detailed stories from her work with theater artists such as Tom Stoppard, Wendy Wasserstein, Robert Wilson, Shi-Zheng Chen, and Sarah Ruhl, as well as the discovery of a ‘lost’ play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Cattaneo provides an invaluable manual to those studying, working in, and interested in this most fascinating profession.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Author: Shirley Jackson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1967-10

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780822212263

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THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s