Fifteen One Act Plays

Author : Sam Shepard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780345802767

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Fifteen One-Act Plays by Sam Shepard Pdf

Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s Head

Author : Robert Mauro
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0916260534

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Two-character Plays for Student Actors by Robert Mauro Pdf

Each of the plays is a complete dramatic work varying in length from 10--30 minutes. Scripts are excellent for secondary and university level. Comprises 9 plays for 1 man and 1 woman; 3 plays for 2 men; and 3 plays for 2 women.

Author : Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811219208

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The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays by Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally Pdf

This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Author : Mary Carolyn Waldrep
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486112527

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Twelve Classic One-Act Plays by Mary Carolyn Waldrep Pdf

This collection of royalty-free plays contains classics by well-known playwrights: Glaspell's Trifles, Synge's Riders to the Sea, Strindberg's The Stronger, plus works by Aristophanes, Chekhov, Yeats, Barrie, and others.

Author : Deb Bert,Norman A. Bert
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000087935379

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New One-act Plays for Acting Students by Deb Bert,Norman A. Bert Pdf

This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes fifteen scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologues and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avante garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use.

Author : Jason Pizzarello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0981909973

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Random Acts of Comedy by Jason Pizzarello Pdf

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

Author : M. Bennett,B. Carson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137043931

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Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays by M. Bennett,B. Carson Pdf

Eugene O'Neill, Nobel Laureate in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winner, is widely known for his full length plays. However, his one-act plays are the foundation of his work - both thematically and stylistically, they telescope his later plays. This collection aims to fill the gap by examining these texts, during what can be considered O'Neill's formative writing years, and the foundational period of American drama. A wide-ranging investigation into O'Neill's one-acts, the contributors shed light on a less-explored part of his career and assist scholars in understanding O'Neill's entire oeuvre.

Author : Norman A. Bert
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : 091626047X

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One-act Plays for Acting Students by Norman A. Bert Pdf

23 short length plays for a cast of one, two, or three. 5 minutes acting time for each character. Performance times vary from 8-15 minutes.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822200252

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American Blues by Tennessee Williams Pdf

THE STORIES: MOONY'S KID DON'T CRY. A short play about a worker, his wife and child. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE DARK ROOM. A tragic sketch about an Italian woman and a welfare worker. (1 man, 2 women.) THE CASE OF THE CRUSHED PETUNIAS. A delightful, hum

Author : Paul Kozelka
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000009156559

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Fifteen American One-act Plays by Paul Kozelka Pdf

A collection of plays by such authors as: Christopher Morley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gerge S. Kaufman, Booth Tarkington, Zona Gale, and Stephen Vincent Benet, among others.

Author : Sam Shepard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:27792358

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Seven Plays by Sam Shepard Pdf

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811208818

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The Public and Play Without a Title by Federico García Lorca Pdf

Federico Garcia Lorca called The Public "the best thing I've written for the theater." Yet, he acknowledged, "this is for the theater years from now." Now, half a century later, The Public and another of Lorca's most daring works, Play without a Title, are available in English translation for the first time. Surrealism, folk theater, poetry, vivid costumes, black humor--in the The Public, dramatic traditions are ransacked to develop themes as timely in the 1980s as they were taboo when Lorca was writing: if Romeo were a man of thirty and Juliet a boy of fifteen, would their passion be any less authentic? No, says a young observer of the play within the play, "I who climb the mountain twice each day and, when I finish studying, tend an enormous herd of bulls that I've got to struggle with and overpower at every instant, I don't have time to think about whether Juliet's a man or a woman or a child, but only to observe that I like her with such a joyous desire." In both The Public and Play without a Title, the player himself is of as much consequence as the role he plays. The fierce, stark Play without a Title, with its cast of Author, Prompter, Stagehand in the wings, and hecklers in the gallery, clearly heralds developments in today's avant-garde theater. It also reflects the violence of the times in which it was written. As Carlos Bauer notes in his introduction, neither of the plays in this volume was complete in 1936, when Lorca was assassinated by Franco's forces. Still, both have here the unity and grace of finished tours de force.

Author : Sam Shepard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101974384

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The One Inside by Sam Shepard Pdf

This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. As memory overtakes him, he sees the bygone America of his childhood: the farmland and the feedlots, the railyards and the diners—and, most hauntingly, his father’s young girlfriend, with whom he also became involved, setting into motion a tragedy that has stayed with him. His complex interiority is filtered through views of mountains and deserts as he drives across the country, propelled by Benzedrine, rock and roll, and a restlessness born out of exile. The rhythms of theater, the language of poetry, and a flinty humor combine in this stunning meditation on the nature of experience, at once celebratory, surreal, poignant, and unforgettable.

Author : Marsh Cassady
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0916260836

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The Theatre and You by Marsh Cassady Pdf

Getting acquainted with acting, directing, design and a history of the theatre.

Author : Anton Chekhov,August Strindberg,Hutchins Hapgood,Moliere
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Non-royalty plays
ISBN : 143032970X

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Royalty-Free One-Act Plays by Anton Chekhov,August Strindberg,Hutchins Hapgood,Moliere Pdf

This exciting anthology of one-act plays includes classics such as Anton Chekhov's "The Boor" and John Millington Synge's "Riders to the Sea" as well as lesser-known gems such as Alice Gerstenberg's "Fourteen" and Percival Wilde's "The Sequel." Other plays in the collection include August Strindberg's "The Stronger," Moliere's "The Pretentious Young Ladies," Neith Boyce's "Enemies," Horace Holley's "The Genius," Susan Glaspell's "Trifles," and Ferenc Molnar's "A Matter of Husbands." Best of all, every play in this anthology is in the public domain and may, therefore, be performed without paying royalties, making this a great resource for theatres or schools with limited budgets.