This and Other Plays

This and Other Plays PDF Author: Melissa James Gibson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559363792
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The first collection from a major new voice in American theatre.

This and Other Plays

This and Other Plays PDF Author: Melissa James Gibson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559363792
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The first collection from a major new voice in American theatre.

The Unseen Hand and Other Plays

The Unseen Hand and Other Plays PDF Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780893960407
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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No Exit and Three Other Plays

No Exit and Three Other Plays PDF Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101971231
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.

Kaspar and Other Plays

Kaspar and Other Plays PDF Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809015463
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to Waiting for Godot Kaspar is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and alogical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to speak "normally" and eventually becomes creative--"doing his own thing" with words; for this he is destroyed. In Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation, one-character "speak-ins," Handke further explores the relationship between public performance and personal identity, forcing us to reconsider our sense of who we are and what we know.

Stunning and Other Plays

Stunning and Other Plays PDF Author: David Adjmi
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366753
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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“Nearly everything about David Adjmi’s Stunning has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue." –Time Out New York This volume of distinctive work includes Stunning, set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage bride’s world is disrupted by her intellectual African American housekeeper; Evildoers, about the collapse of two privileged couples; and Elective Affinities, a post-9/11 monologue. David Adjmi’s work has been produced at Lincoln Center Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, and the Royal Court in London. He has received numerous commissions and is the recipient of a 2009 Kesselring Fellowship and a Bush Artist Fellowship.

Theraplay & Other Plays

Theraplay & Other Plays PDF Author: Christopher Bollas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The main characters of these five plays by Christopher Bollas struggle to survive in a post-"Catastrophe" world. As they go about ordinary life, it is clear that something insidious has both preceded their existence, colored it, and is everywhere and nowhere. Like the existential universe of some plays of the 1950's-Ionescu, early Pinter, Beckett-human meaning is in meager supply, but Bollas's work-clearly following in this tradition-examines existence in the 21st century through a new lens. He explores a damaged self that strives to find a way to live in a world devoid of meaning. One lives to fulfill a function. The absurd context in which many of the characters live seems eerily premonitional, as if some rough new character formation is slouching towards us all. Theraplay and Other Plays includes pieces such as: a theatre company which has one day to change the life of a damaged man; a friendship that comes to an end on grounds so petty that causation is up for laughs; a dinner party that descends into madness; a man assigned the task of interviewing people for a job that has never been explained to him; and a farce about a rock collector who visits a psychoanalyst to sort out the rock's object relations. These plays are dark, oddly amusing, and deeply moving. Bollas finds redemption within human frailty. His characters' bewilderment in the face of absurd conditions becomes an embarkation point for recovery from social disaster.

Dirty Story and Other Plays (Large Print 16pt)

Dirty Story and Other Plays (Large Print 16pt) PDF Author: John Patrick Shanley
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458781275
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Three new works by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Patrick Shanley, one of our country's most politically current and theatrically elastic playwrights. In Dirty Story, a couple of sadomasochistic writers fight over rights to their New York City loft. In this sexy satire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is ''astonishing,'' says Tony Kushner, ''the analysis of the Middle East in this play is dead on, exactly perfectly pitched. ''In his dark comedy Where's My Money?, Shanley takes on marriage, infidelity, and divorce lawyers in a play that is ''so harsh, it's funny - terrifying, but funny'' (The New York Times).And in his Sailor's Song, love becomes an act of courage, in a seaside romance about the certainty of death, the brevity of youth, and the importance of now.

Patient A, and Other Plays

Patient A, and Other Plays PDF Author: Lee Blessing
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This volume of Lee Blessing's most recent and some of his best work, includes: Patient A - a rethinking of the Kimberly Bergalis AIDS case; Two Rooms - the strain on families of hostages in the Middle East; Down the Road - a tale of a serial killer concerned with image; Fortinbras - a hilarious reexamination of Hamlet in a contemporary political context; and Lake Street Extension - an exploration of the dark theme of child molestation. All of these plays resonate with Blessing's characteristic depth of human feeling and his insistence that the personal is the political.

Madame La Mort and Other Plays

Madame La Mort and Other Plays PDF Author: Rachilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Rachilde was the pseudonym of Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), a woman of powerful personality who made her place at the very center of the Symbolist movement in fin-de-siecle France. Though relatively unknown in America, Rachilde had a significant influence on the course of French and Western literature and theater. She was a pioneer of antirealistic drama and the first to use the term absurd to characterize the new kind of theater that would be "a pretext for a dream." Rachilde's sexual politics and sardonic humor make her plays more interesting - and more performable - today than many of those of her more famous contemporaries. Where male Symbolists were obsessed with death, Rachilde explores the fearful thrill of sexuality. Topical, challenging, and all but lost to contemporary audiences, her extraordinary work offers the shock of relevance and freshness of discovery.

Reckless, and Other Plays

Reckless, and Other Plays PDF Author: Craig Lucas
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559362115
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Craig Lucas explores the nature of relationships in an ever increasingly distant society in this collection of three thrilling plays.