Author: Marsh Cassady
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The one-act play occupies a special niche in the history of modern theatre, attracting major talents like Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, Terence Rattigan, James M. Barrie, and J. M. Synge, Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman. In this collection, 'An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays, ' Marshall Cassady, veteran writer and teacher, has assembled seventeen complete one-acters by these and other famous writers.
One-act Plays by Modern Authors
Author: Helen Louise Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Introduction to Modern One-act Plays
Author: Marsh Cassady
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The one-act play occupies a special niche in the history of modern theatre, attracting major talents like Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, Terence Rattigan, James M. Barrie, and J. M. Synge, Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman. In this collection, 'An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays, ' Marshall Cassady, veteran writer and teacher, has assembled seventeen complete one-acters by these and other famous writers.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The one-act play occupies a special niche in the history of modern theatre, attracting major talents like Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, Terence Rattigan, James M. Barrie, and J. M. Synge, Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman. In this collection, 'An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays, ' Marshall Cassady, veteran writer and teacher, has assembled seventeen complete one-acters by these and other famous writers.
Sixteen Public Domain One-Act Plays by Modern Authors
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1592241867
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This fine selection of 20th century plays includes contributions from Robert Emmons Rogers ("The Boy Will"), Booth Tarkington ("Beauty and the Jacobin"), Ernest Dowson ("The Pierrot of the Minute"), Oliphant Down ("The Maker of Dreams"), Percy MacKaye ("Gettysburg"), A.A. Milne ("Wurzel-Flummery"), Harold Brighouse ("Maid of France"), Lady Gregory ("Spreading the News"), Jeannette Marks ("Welsh Honeymoon"), John Millington Synge ("Riders to the Sea"), Lord Dunsany ("A Night at an Inn"), Stark Young ("The Twilight Saint"), Lady Alix Egerton ("The Masque of the Two Strangers"), Maurice Maeterlinck ("The Intruder"), Josephine Preston Peabody ("Fortune and Men's Eyes"), and John Galsworthy ("The Little Man"). All of these plays may be staged free of charge in the United States (and possible in other countries--check your local copyright laws for details).
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1592241867
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This fine selection of 20th century plays includes contributions from Robert Emmons Rogers ("The Boy Will"), Booth Tarkington ("Beauty and the Jacobin"), Ernest Dowson ("The Pierrot of the Minute"), Oliphant Down ("The Maker of Dreams"), Percy MacKaye ("Gettysburg"), A.A. Milne ("Wurzel-Flummery"), Harold Brighouse ("Maid of France"), Lady Gregory ("Spreading the News"), Jeannette Marks ("Welsh Honeymoon"), John Millington Synge ("Riders to the Sea"), Lord Dunsany ("A Night at an Inn"), Stark Young ("The Twilight Saint"), Lady Alix Egerton ("The Masque of the Two Strangers"), Maurice Maeterlinck ("The Intruder"), Josephine Preston Peabody ("Fortune and Men's Eyes"), and John Galsworthy ("The Little Man"). All of these plays may be staged free of charge in the United States (and possible in other countries--check your local copyright laws for details).
Random Acts of Comedy
Author: Jason Pizzarello
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981909974
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Home of the most popular one-act plays for student actors, Playscripts, Inc. presents 15 of their very best short comedies. From a blind dating debacle to a silly Shakespeare spoof, from a fairy tale farce to a self-hating satire, this anthology contains hilarious large-cast plays that have delighted thousands of audiences around the world. Includes the plays The Audition by Don Zolidis, Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit by Jonathan Rand, 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview by Ian McWethy, Darcy's Cinematic Life by Christa Crewdson, The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fifth Period by Jason Pizzarello, Small World by Tracey Scott Wilson, The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe by Werner Trieschmann, The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet by Peter Bloedel, Show and Spell by Julia Brownell, Cut by Ed Monk, Check Please by Jonathan Rand, Aliens vs. Cheerleaders by Qui Nguyen, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon by Don Zolidis, 15 Reasons Not To Be in a Play by Alan Haehnel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981909974
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Home of the most popular one-act plays for student actors, Playscripts, Inc. presents 15 of their very best short comedies. From a blind dating debacle to a silly Shakespeare spoof, from a fairy tale farce to a self-hating satire, this anthology contains hilarious large-cast plays that have delighted thousands of audiences around the world. Includes the plays The Audition by Don Zolidis, Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit by Jonathan Rand, 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview by Ian McWethy, Darcy's Cinematic Life by Christa Crewdson, The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fifth Period by Jason Pizzarello, Small World by Tracey Scott Wilson, The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe by Werner Trieschmann, The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet by Peter Bloedel, Show and Spell by Julia Brownell, Cut by Ed Monk, Check Please by Jonathan Rand, Aliens vs. Cheerleaders by Qui Nguyen, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon by Don Zolidis, 15 Reasons Not To Be in a Play by Alan Haehnel
Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216203
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216203
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.
Five One-act Plays
Author: Alan Ball
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822213680
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
THE STORIES: The perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MADE FOR A WOMAN are perfect examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too, and they have each other. All is fine until she feels
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822213680
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
THE STORIES: The perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MADE FOR A WOMAN are perfect examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too, and they have each other. All is fine until she feels
Five Comic One-Act Plays
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112063
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal. For students, general readers, and amateur and professional theater groups.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112063
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal. For students, general readers, and amateur and professional theater groups.
The Comedy About A Bank Robbery
Author: Henry Lewis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135000121X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
One enormous diamond Six incompetent crooks And a snoozing security guard What could possibly go right? Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre, creators of the Olivier Award-winning Best New Comedy The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is the latest adventure in mishap, mistimed exists and entrances, and disaster unfolding in front of the audience's eyes. It received its world premiere at the Criterion Theatre, London, on 31 March 2016.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135000121X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
One enormous diamond Six incompetent crooks And a snoozing security guard What could possibly go right? Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre, creators of the Olivier Award-winning Best New Comedy The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is the latest adventure in mishap, mistimed exists and entrances, and disaster unfolding in front of the audience's eyes. It received its world premiere at the Criterion Theatre, London, on 31 March 2016.
Contemporary One-act Plays
Author: Benjamin Roland Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Five One-Act Plays
Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
ISBN: 9780717117765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The comedy 'The End of the Beginning' and the sketch 'A Pound on Demand' were both published in 1934 as part of the collection of essays, verse and fiction, entitled 'Windfalls'. 'Hall of Healing, A Sincerious Farce', 'Bedtime Story' and 'Time to Go, A Morality Comedy', were written in 1951.
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
ISBN: 9780717117765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The comedy 'The End of the Beginning' and the sketch 'A Pound on Demand' were both published in 1934 as part of the collection of essays, verse and fiction, entitled 'Windfalls'. 'Hall of Healing, A Sincerious Farce', 'Bedtime Story' and 'Time to Go, A Morality Comedy', were written in 1951.