Modern Chancel Dramas

Modern Chancel Dramas PDF Author: James Brock
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Religious drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Modern Chancel Dramas

Modern Chancel Dramas PDF Author: James Brock
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Religious drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s PDF Author: Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350014613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major writers and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * William Inge: Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957); * Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins: West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959); * Alice Childress: Just a Little Simple (1950), Gold Through the Trees (1952) and Trouble in Mind (1955); * Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee: Inherit the Wind (1955), Auntie Mame (1956) and The Gang's All Here (1959).

Plays for Holly Days

Plays for Holly Days PDF Author:
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Christmas plays
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage

Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage PDF Author: Peter Brown
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191610941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1755

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Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies, English Literature, Modern Languages, and Theatre Studies provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the relationship between the two genres. Since tragedies have played a much larger part than comedies in this branch of operatic history, the volume mostly concentrates on the tragic repertoire, but a chapter on musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata is included, as well as discussions of incidental music, a very important part of the musical reception of ancient drama, from Andrea Gabrieli in 1585 to Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Catalog of Copyright Entries PDF Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Santa's Spectacles a Cristmas Fantasy

Santa's Spectacles a Cristmas Fantasy PDF Author: Jeanne A. Davis
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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The Carpenter

The Carpenter PDF Author: Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Jeff Masters, a young, man, arrives in a small New England town, and plies his trade as a carpenter. Though there is no mystery about his arrival, or his past (except that people are not in the habit of coming to small towns for no reason at all) the townspeople immediately start speculation.

The Bible Comes Alive

The Bible Comes Alive PDF Author: Norman Eugene Nygaard
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Bible plays
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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A Child for a King

A Child for a King PDF Author: Arthur C. Risser
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Christmas plays
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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This Is My Story, This Is My Song

This Is My Story, This Is My Song PDF Author: Leonard S. Buxton
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525552546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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The first of two volumes to be published, in This is my Story, This is my Song, Leonard S. Buxton recounts the first half of his engaging life and his long career in ministry. He has written a very entertaining personal account of his upbringing as the son of a fire-and-brimstone Evangelical preacher during the Depression, the beginnings of his political consciousness through WWll, his college life and the strict mores of the 1950s, and moving from parish to parish with his young family during the turbulent social change of the 1960s and early 1970s. As a professor of psychology at Claflin, a black university in South Carolina, Leonard recalls his activism within the church—and literally in his own backyard—to break down the resistance to desegregation and to support the civil rights movement. This book is filled with evocative photographs and colorful firsthand history, its joys and heartbreaks: Studebakers and VWs, the Red Sox and Yankees, teen hang-outs in drugstores, music, dramatic productions, and church camping, the serious social stigma of divorce, the illegality of adultery, the scourge of polio, the loss of a child, group ‘encounter sessions,’ George McGovern, Benjamin Spock, Kent State, burning crosses . . . A man devoted to building congregations as a pastor, psychologist, parish counselor, teacher and activist, Leonard depicts characters and narrates events with remarkable acuity. This book is a rich reflection on his experiences, written with candor and humility, and observing people and events through the kind lens of his dedication to serving others and his evolving faith as a Methodist minister. To quote one of Leonard’s aspirations for this memoir, “For those still casting around an unclear future, this may say ‘Take heart; life will be full of surprises.’”