Author: Penny Farfan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047205435X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Explores how women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world and contribute to its reshaping

Author: Eugene O'Neill
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141186702
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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A selection of early work—including two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays—from Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic Included in this volume are seven one-act plays (The Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home, Ile, Where the Cross Is Made, and The Rope), and five full-length plays (Beyond the Horizon, The Straw, Anna Christie, and the classics The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape), all written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922. The majority of these plays are heavily influenced by German expressionism—Freud, Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the radical leftist politics in which O'Neill was involved during his youth. Also included in this unique collection is the little-known and highly autobiographical play The Straw, which draws on O'Neill's confinement in the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium.

Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127512
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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A selection of five plays by twentieth-century author and actress Alice Childress, including "Florence," "Gold through the Trees," "Trouble in Mind," "Wedding Band : A Love/Hate Story in Black and White," and "Wine in the Wilderness."

Author: William M. Hoffman
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559368993
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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In reaction to the extraordinary events of the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has created a unique and personal response to one of the most tumultuous times in our recent history—a play diary for each day of the presidency, to capture and explore the events as they unfolded. Known for her distinctive lyrical dialogue and powerful sociopolitical themes, Parks’s 100 Plays for the First Hundred Days is the powerful and provocative everyman’s guide to the Trumpian universe of uncertainty, confusion, and chaos.

Author: Bekah Brunstetter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573705526
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Is there a heaven? Joe says no; it's all a bunch of hokum. His wife, Roberta, has always claimed to agree. But lately she's beginning to wonder, especially when they find themselves in church a lot, having reached the age when funerals are more frequent than weddings. Their granddaughter, Ellie, doesn't have time in her own busy life to ponder the afterlife. But when mortality confronts them, her grandmother's claim to have gone to heaven and back doesn't sound so crazy after all. With thoughtful storytelling and quiet wit, Brunstetter looks at beginnings, endings--and an enigmatic angel.

Author: Oscar Wegelin
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231089388
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: John P. Harrington
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813149576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Over the years American—especially New York—audiences have evolved a consistent set of expectations for the "Irish play." Traditionally the term implied a specific subject matter, invariably rural and Catholic, and embodied a reductive notion of Irish drama and society. This view continues to influence the types of Irish drama produced in the United States today. By examining seven different opening nights in New York theaters over the course of the last century, John Harrington considers the reception of Irish drama on the American stage and explores the complex interplay between drama and audience expectations. All of these productions provoked some form of public disagreement when they were first staged in New York, ranging from the confrontation between Shaw and the Society for the Suppression of Vice to the intellectual outcry provoked by billing Waiting for Godot as "the laugh sensation of two continents." The inaugural volume in the series Irish Literature, History, and Culture, The Irish Play on the New York Stage explores the New York premieres of The Shaughraun (1874), Mrs. Warren's Profession (1905), The Playboy of the Western World (1911), Exiles (1925), Within the Gates (1934), Waiting for Godot (1956), and Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1966).

Author: Sylvia Ashby
Publisher: I. E. Clark Publications
ISBN: 9780886802905
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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