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Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443435314

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Act One by Moss Hart Pdf

Act One is the autobiography of Moss Hart, an American playwright and theatre director. Born into impoverished circumstances—his father was often unemployed—Hart left school at age twelve for a series of odd jobs that included being an entertainment director at a Catskills summer resort. Hart’s big break came in 1930 with the Broadway hit Once in a Lifetime, written with George Kaufman. The two would collaborate again on You Can’t Take It With You (1936) and The Man Who Came To Dinner (1939). You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937, and the 1938 film version, directed by Frank Capra, won Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director. Act One was adapted for a 1963 film starring George Hamilton, and for a 2014 stage production starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : Jason Pizzarello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Sam Shepard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Colin Dolley,Rex Walford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781408103166

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The One-Act Play Companion by Colin Dolley,Rex Walford Pdf

The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard. This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre waiting to be discovered. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered as well as essential contact information and where to apply for performance rights. A chapter introducing the history of the one-act play rounds off the title as a definitive guide.

Author : Mary Carolyn Waldrep
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Various Authors
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465520258

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Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various Authors Pdf

Author : Bennett Cerf,Van H. Cartmell
Publisher : Crown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1963-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780385066174

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24 Favorite One Act Plays by Bennett Cerf,Van H. Cartmell Pdf

Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, and A.A. Milne.

Author : Adrienne Kennedy
Publisher : Emergent Literatures
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816618372

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Deadly Triplets by Adrienne Kennedy Pdf

A surrealistic intertwining of mystery and autobiography set in the theatre world of 1960s London by Obie-winning playwrite Adrienne Kennedy.

Author : Booth Tarkington,A. A. Milne
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781592241866

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Sixteen Public Domain One-Act Plays by Modern Authors by Booth Tarkington,A. A. Milne Pdf

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).

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350161634

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Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope. Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams's lesser-known one-act plays reveal a tantalising and fascinating perspective to one of the world's most important playwrights. Written between 1934 and 1980, the plays of the very young writer, then of the successful Tennessee Williams, and finally of the troubled man of the 1970s, this volume offers a panoramic yet detailed view of the themes, demons, and wit of this iconic playwright. The volume depicts American life during the Great Depression and after, populated by a hopelessly hopeful chorus girl, a munitions manufacturer ensnared in a love triangle, a rural family that deals "justice" on its children, an overconfident mob dandy, a poor couple who quarrel to vanquish despair, a young "spinster" enthralled by the impulse of rebellion, and, in The Magic Tower, a passionate artist and his wife whose youth and optimism are not enough to protect their 'dream marriage.' This collection gathers some of Williams's most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas: 'The Pretty Trap,' a cheerful take on The Glass Menagerie, and 'Interior: Panic,' a precursor to A Streetcar Named Desire. Plays included are: At Liberty, The Magic Tower, Me, Vashya, Curtains for the Gentleman, In Our Profession, Every Twenty Minutes, Honor the Living, The Cast of the Crushed Petunias, Moony's Kid Don't Cry, The Dark Room, The Pretty Trap, Interior: Panic, Kingdom of Earth, I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays and Some Problems for The Moose Lodge. The volume also features a foreword by Terence McNally.

Author : George Hatton COLOMB
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017077523

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Davenport done. Or, an April fool. A comedietta, in one act by George Hatton COLOMB Pdf

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1773
Category : Highway law
ISBN : UCD:31175034882863

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An Act to Explain, Amend, and Reduce Into One Act of Parliament, the General Laws Now in Being for Regulating the Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain Called England; and for Other Purposes by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822217058

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Seven One-act Plays by Wendy Wasserstein Pdf

THE STORIES: In BETTE AND ME, the author and the legendary Bette Midler get their hair done, try on makeup, and row a boat on the Hudson River. They finally end up at Radio City Music Hall, where Wendy rises from the orchestra pit on a half-shell w

Author : Elizabeth George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698138285

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Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Punishment She Deserves Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: a gripping child-in-danger story that tests Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as never before. Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim. Just when Azhar is beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss, he gets more shocking news: Hadiyyah has been kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most and how far she’s willing to go to protect it.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435076471762

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf