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ISBN: 9780812468069
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Languages : en
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Plays from the Contemporary American Theater
Author: Brooks McNamaraPublisher: Signet
ISBN: 9780451528377
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This collection of modern American plays, edited and introduced by Brooks McNamara, includes "Streamers" by David Rabe, "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley, and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" by August Wilson, with five others by John Guare, Arthur Kopit, Christopher Durang, A. R. Gurney, and Tina Howe. Reprint.
Plays from the Contemporary American Theater
Author: David RabePlays by Women from the Contemporary American Theater Festival
Author: Susan MillerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350084832
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Based at Shepherd University, in West Virginia, the Contemporary American Theater Festival is nationally and internationally recognized as a home for playwrights and the development and production of new plays. The Festival makes it a priority to celebrate and produce playwrights with strong, distinct voices, with a core value to tell diverse stories. This anthology of work provides plays that speak to one of the most compelling virtues of artists everywhere – freedom of speech. A necessary volume of women playwrights' work, ranging from a two-time Obie Award-winning author to emerging writers just beginning their careers, it represents a group of women who vary in age, race and sexual orientation and offers an invitation to artistic leaders, scholars and students to embrace gritty, thought-provoking new dramatic work. Edited by The Festival's Producing Directors Peggy McKowen and Ed Herendeen, this anthology features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. Each of the five powerful plays is followed by an informative and discursive playwright interview conducted by Sharon J. Anderson that contextualizes and develops the works within the wider context of the annual festival. The plays include: Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W Gregory Dead and Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson 20th Century Blues by Susan Miller
Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre
Author: Robert J. AndreachPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761864016
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. The book argues that tragedy is not only present in contemporary American theatre, but issues from an expectation fundamental to American culture: the pressure on characters to create themselves. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre concludes that tragedy is vital and relevant, though not always in the Aristotelian model, the standard for traditional evaluation.
Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre
Author: Robert J. AndreachPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809321780
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
"Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, Robert J. Andreach shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self." "Andreach argues that the contemporary American theatre creates multiple selves that reflect and give voice to the many communities within our multicultural society. These selves are fragmented and enclaved, however, which makes necessary a counter movement that seeks, through interaction among the various parts, to heal the divisions within, between, and among them." --Book Jacket.
Contemporary American Theatre
Author: Bruce Alvin KingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333487396
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Contemporary American Monologues for Women
Author: Todd LondonPublisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367636
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Audition monologues from recent works by American playwrights.
In Their Own Words
Author: David SavranPublisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367105
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson.
American Plays and Playwrights of the Contemporary Theatre
Author: Allan LewisPublisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 9780517509470
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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