Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You And The Actor S Nightmare

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822210355

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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You ; And, The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang Pdf

THE STORIES: SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU. Sister Mary Ignatius, a teaching nun who is much concerned with sin in all of its various forms, delivers a cautionary lecture to her charges. One of them, a precocious little boy named Tho

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802188922

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Christopher Durang Explains It All for You by Christopher Durang Pdf

A collection of dark comedies about terrible therapists, dysfunctional parents, and more, from a winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and three Obies. Known for his dark, absurd humor and social commentary, Christopher Durang explores the pain and confusion of everyday life—and makes audiences laugh uproariously at the results. Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, the center of a storm of controversy for its satire of misplaced trust in religious authority, remains as powerful today as when it was originally produced. The excruciatingly funny The Nature and Purpose of the Universe asks whether Eleanor Mann’s Job-like suffering is really her fault, while Titanic takes us into the heart of children’s anger with their parents and parents’ manipulation of their children. In Beyond Therapy, two horrifyingly human therapists pursue their own needs at the expense of the most mismatched couple ever to meet through a personal ad. Also including ’Dentity Crisis and The Actor’s Nightmare, this collection demonstrates that laughter is the best surgery, slicing through prejudice and hypocrisy, cutting out dead beliefs and inflamed opinions. These black comedies, lit by lightning bolts of truth and humor, come from “one of the most explosively funny American dramatists” (Newsweek). Includes: The Nature and Purpose of the Universe ’Dentity Crisis Titanic The Actor’s Nightmare Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You Beyond Therapy

Author : Joss Bennathan
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0435233327

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Performance Power by Joss Bennathan Pdf

A collection of extracts from plays, designed for use in the short performance assessment in the GCSE Drama specifications. The plays have been selected to last approximately 20 minutes and aim to develop the performance skills of students from a wide ability range.

Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780195123470

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American Theatre by Thomas S. Hischak Pdf

Volume Four of the distinguished American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama series offers a thorough, candid, and fascinating look at the theater in New York during the last decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822200848

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Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang Pdf

THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn't speak English and too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy--which leads to all manner

Author : Miriam Chirico
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474288910

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The Theatre of Christopher Durang by Miriam Chirico Pdf

The Theatre of Christopher Durang considers the works of one of the foremost comedic writers for the American stage. From Durang's early success with the controversial Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (1974) to his recent Tony Award-winning play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2012), he has been an original theatrical voice in American theatre. Edith Oliver, long-time theatre critic for The New Yorker, described Durang as “one of the funniest men in the world.” Durang challenges traditional dramatic idioms with his irreverent comedies that are as shocking as they are prescient and compassionate. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of Durang's works and incorporates comedic theory to examine how laughter in performance subverts social conventions and hierarchies. Through a clear, detailed discussion of the plays, Miriam Chirico considers Durang's use of black comedy, satire, and parody to explode such topics as: western literature, religion, dysfunctional families, and American social malaise. Robert Combs and Jay Malarcher provide additional critical perspectives about Durang's works, detailing his use of alienation techniques and locating his place within the American parodic tradition. The book also includes a warm introduction by Durang's former student, Pulitzer Prize-winner, David Lindsay-Abaire. The Theatre of Christopher Durang, in demonstrating how Durang has shaped contemporary theatrical possibilities, offers a valuable guide for students of American drama and comedy.

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0822214601

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Durang/Durang by Christopher Durang Pdf

...eloquently dramatizes questions of responsibility, guilt and pathology...the complex moral issues are translated into challenging story theater, like a cubist portrait of grief...Homage must be paid, this grieving mother cries to the stars, and Medoff answe The mysteries of life, death and survival in the city, of friendships among women and relationships between the sexes are explored...in Jacquelyn Reingold's GIRL GONE...the playwright display[s] admirable talent and generate[s] plenty of interest, tension an

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822211556

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Titanic by Christopher Durang Pdf

THE STORY: Amid a tangle of changing identities-and sometimes sexes-the action of the play centers on an American family, the Tammurais, who are traveling aboard the Titanic. Comprised of father, mother, brother and sister (or is she actually the Captain's daughter?) the Tammurais undergo a series of sexual permutations as they reveal all manner of shocking secrets and bizarre fetishes while awaiting the iceberg which, somehow, the ship seems unable to find. The mother tells the father that their son is not really his; the father confesses to the mother that their daughter is not really hers; the daughter mysteriously becomes an aunt who is having an affair with her sister (when she isn't seducing her nephew); while the father and son compete vigorously for the affections of a handsome young sailor, who is hard put to choose between them. Eventually the ship does go down, taking its odd assemblage of passengers with it, but leaving behind a remarkable array of original thoughts on the nature of the modern American family and the undeniably disturbed society which nurtures it.

Author : Jerry L. Crawford,Catherine Hurst,Michael Lugering
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478608394

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Acting in Person and in Style by Jerry L. Crawford,Catherine Hurst,Michael Lugering Pdf

Appropriate for both fundamental and advanced levels, the authors ground their commentary on actor training on the process of personalization and the innovative approaches to voice and movement training. They define the personalization process as one in which the actor discovers and explores in the self, characteristics, qualities, attitudes, and experiences that are legitimate dimensions of the role being created. Part I transitions from essential ingredients used in creating a role, such as focusing and speaking, to guidelines for auditioning and rehearsing, including role analysis. The discussions of basic acting principles are supported by skills-building exercises. Part II explores historical performance styles and shows how basic stylistic elements can be freshly adapted for modern audiences. Thus, in Part II, the authors center their discussions of voice, movement, character, and emotion around theatrical styles prevalent during certain historical periods and around sound acting theories gleaned from a wide range of acting traditions. Each chapter in this part ends with a helpful checklist that summarizes voice, movement, gesture, and other elements common to the era discussed.

Author : Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781408103135

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The Theatre Guide by Trevor R. Griffiths Pdf

With over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822214482

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Naomi in the Living Room & Other Short Plays by Christopher Durang Pdf

THE STORIES: NAOMI IN THE LIVING ROOM. Naomi, when visited by John and Johnna, her son and daughter-in-law, is alternately friendly and insulting. Johnna copes her best, but when John changes his clothes to look like Johnna, things start to unravel

Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Tice L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521564441

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The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre by Don B. Wilmeth,Tice L. Miller Pdf

"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Stuart Spencer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1429934212

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The Playwright's Guidebook by Stuart Spencer Pdf

An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular handbooks have good ideas in them, they all suffer from the same problems: they're poorly organized; are composed mostly of quirky, idiosyncratic advice on how specific playwrights have gone about writing their own work; and are full of abstract theorizing on the nature of art. As a result, they fail to offer any concrete information on how to construct a well-written play or any useful guidelines and exercises. Moreover, few of these books are actually written by working playwrights. Out of frustration, Spencer wrote his own book. The result, The Playwright's Guidebook, is a clear, concise, and engaging handbook. Spencer addresses the important principles of structure, includes insightful writing exercises that build upon one another, explores the creative process, and troubleshoots recurrent problems that playwrights actually face.

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195176049

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The New Anti-Catholicism by Philip Jenkins Pdf

Offers an analysis of prejudice against Catholics, arguing that anti-Catholicism can be seen in all areas of American culture, including movies, television, publishing, the arts, the news media, and academia.

Author : James M. Salem
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0810816903

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A Guide to Critical Reviews by James M. Salem Pdf