The Best American Short Plays 1989

Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1557830452

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The Best American Short Plays 1989 by Glenn Young Pdf

The 11 plays in this collection represent the short play form as currently presented in American theater. Seeking to honor the artistry of established playwrights, encourage the emerging, and acknowledge the promising, the volume begins with Richard Greenberg's "The Author's Voice," one of the hits of New York City's Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon '87. The plays range in coverage from the topical social problems of AIDS in Lanford Wilson's "A Poster of the Cosmos" and spouse abuse in Edward Alan Baker's "Dolores"; the lyrical spiritual exploration in Ernest Ferlita's "The Mask of Hiroshima; character studies of an aging writer in "April Snow" the study of maternal love for the exceptional child in Katherine Snodgrass' "Haiku;" to the philosophical contemplation of fishing in William Lewis' "Trout" and the 1930s Black music history in Willy Holtzman's "San Antonio Sunset." ISBN 1-55783-045-2: $21.95

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781495009556

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Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Two by William W. Demastes Pdf

(Best American Short Plays). This second volume of the best monologues from the Best American Short Plays series features a diverse selection drawn from the outstanding works from many of today's best American playwrights. In these monologues, the playwrights capture much of the flavors, feelings, and thoughts of American culture over the past several decades. The result is a collection of taught, engaging monologues offering fascinating perspectives. They are written with an eye toward the stage that makes them excellent source material for actors young and old alike. And they offer a freshness and directness that make them excellent companions for readers attracted to good, often quirky, and always engaging contemporary literature.

Author : Ramon Delgado,Glenn Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1557830452

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The Best American Short Plays 1989 by Ramon Delgado,Glenn Young Pdf

(Best American Short Plays). A collection of eleven short plays from 1989. Includes: "The Author's Voice" Richard Greenberg; "San Antonio Sunset" Willy Holtzman; "There Is No John Garfield" Ernest A. Joselovitz; "The Mask of Hiroshima" Ernest Ferlita; "Penguin Blues" Ethan Phillips; "Haiku" Katherine Snodgrass; "Chemical Reactions" Andrew Foster; "Dolores" Edward Allan Baker; "April Snow" Romulus Linney; "Trout" William R. Lewis; "A Poster of the Cosmos" Lanford Wilson.

Author : Barbara Parisi
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557839367

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The Best American Short Plays 2009-2010 by Barbara Parisi Pdf

(Applause Books). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to The Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play, 2) emerging playwrights whose record of productions indicate both initial achievement and continuing artistic productivity, and 3) talented new playwrights whose work may not have had much exposure but evidences promise for the future." From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams ( A Streetcar Named Desire ), Edward Albee ( Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ), Wendy Wasserstein ( The Heidi Chronicles ), David Mamet ( Glengarry Glen Ross ), and Horton Foote ( The Trip to Bountiful ). This volume is Barbara Parisi's fifth edition as series editor. The volumes of the new millennium include the work of playwrights Murray Schisgal, Adam Kraar, Theodore Mann, David Ives, and Mark Medoff, among others, and tackle complex human issues through diverse theatrical styles and a wide range of character perspectives.

Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1557836965

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The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 by Glenn Young Pdf

A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781480355026

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The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 by William W. Demastes Pdf

(Applause Books). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. William W. Demastes made his debut as series editor with the well-received 2010-2011 volume, a diverse collection revolving around the multidimensional theme of love. Blogcritics said of the anthology: "This collection is a bountiful of pleasing oddities. Each work offers something worthwhile.... The collection runs the gamut of the most serious drama to the most irreverent topical mental trinkets...." Demastes returns and once again draws from works produced by some of America's finest theater companies in an effort to capture the wide range of styles, topics, and regional tastes that typifies American theater. The compilation includes works by John Guare, Neil LaBute, and A. R. Gurney, as well as contributions from a plethora of gifted, emerging playwrights.

Author : Ramon Delgado
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1557830444

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The Best Short Plays 1989 by Ramon Delgado Pdf

(Applause Books). A collection of eleven short plays from 1989. Includes: "The Author's Voice," "San Antonio Sunset," "There is No John Garfield," "The Mask of Hiroshima," "Penguin Blues," "Haiku," "Chemical Reactions," "Dolores," "April Snow," "Trout" and "A Poster of the Cosmos."

Author : Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810877214

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Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections by Denise L. Montgomery Pdf

Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.

Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1557830967

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The Best American Short Plays, 1990 by Glenn Young Pdf

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781480397217

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The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013 by William W. Demastes Pdf

(Applause Books). For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their lives and surroundings from sunup to sundown, sundown to sunrise. We learn to follow rules of proper behavior and more than happily issue out advice to our friends who just can't get a handle on themselves. Restraint and order, after all, are the cornerstones of human society and civilization. The problem is that human nature bucks and bridles at every attempt to socialize and civilize. Shakespeare got it right when he penned the observation, "The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree." In those few words he has managed to capture precisely why it is so difficult to be human; if it were okay simply to let our hot tempers prevail, life would be so much easier. But cold decrees are what prevent us from self-destruction, and so we endure the struggle.

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781495035418

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The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 by William W. Demastes Pdf

(Best American Short Plays). For more than 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others who have gone on to establish award-winning careers. The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 takes a look at our changing times. "Uncertain" seems to be the watchword of today's world, full of surprises, shocks, and even a few delights. Uncertainty brings with it fear and insecurity, as well as nostalgic longing for the good old days, but for some, uncertainty means opportunity and along with it the prospect of change for the better. This volume explores various experiences of uncertainty and includes a series of nine plays gathered by Daniel Gallant, entitled Nine Signs of the Times , as well as short plays by Neil LaBute, John Guare, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Daniel F. Levin, Quincy Long, Halley Feiffer, Caridad Svich, and Clay McLeod Chapman. This collection will be complemented by a range of plays from around the country by playwrights likewise observing and digesting the signs of the times. Together the plays of this volume work as a time capsule, capturing the fears and longings of a world on the verge and in the midst of big changes, hopefully for the better but quite possibly for the worse.

Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317326571

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The Director as Collaborator by Robert Knopf Pdf

The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theater productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers, stage managers, and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theater, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises. New to the second edition: updated interviews, exercises, forms, and appendices new chapter on technology including digital research, previsualization and drafting programs, and web-sharing sites new chapter on devised and ensemble-based works new chapter on immersive theater, including material and exercises on environmental staging and audience–performer interaction

Author : Roberta Uno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134823802

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Contemporary Plays by Women of Color by Roberta Uno Pdf

Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is a ground-breaking anthology of eighteen new and recent works by African American, Asian American, Latina American and Native American playwrights. This compelling collection includes works by award-winning and well-known playwrights such as Anna Deavere Smith, Cherrie Moraga, Pearl Cleage, Marga Gomez and Spiderwoman, as well as many exciting newcomers. Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is the first anthology to display such an abundance of talent from such a wide range of today's women playwrights. The plays tackle a variety of topics - from the playful to the painful - and represent numerous different approaches to playmaking. The volume also includes: * an invaluable appendix of published plays by women of color * biographical notes on each writer * the production history of each play Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is a unique resource for practitioners, students and lovers of theatre, and an inspiring addition to any bookshelf.

Author : Robert H Vorlicky
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472904204

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Act Like a Man by Robert H Vorlicky Pdf

In the first comprehensive study of plays written for male characters only, Robert Vorlicky offers a new theory that links cultural codes governing gender and the conventions determining dramatic form. Act Like a Manlooks at a range of plays, including those by O'Neill, Albee, Mamet, Baraka, and Rabe as well as new works by Philip Kan Gotanda, Alonzo Lamont, and Robin Swados, to examine how dialogue within these works reflects the social codes of male behavior and inhibits individualization among men. Plays in which women are absent are often characterized by the location of a male "other"—a female presence who distances himself from the dominant, impersonal masculine ethos and thereby becomes a facilitator of personal communication. The potential authority of this figure is so powerful that its presence becomes the primary determinant of the quality of men's interaction and of the range of male subjectivities possible. This formulation becomes the basis of an alternative theory of American dramatic construction, one that challenges traditional dramaturgical notions of realism. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in drama, gender, race, sexuality, and American culture, as well as playwrights, teachers of playwrights, and artistic directors. It includes an extensive bibliography of more than four hundred male-cast plays and monodramas, the first such compilation and one that points to further research into a previously unexplored area.

Author : Howard Stein,Glenn Young
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1557831661

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The Best American Short Plays 1992-1993 by Howard Stein,Glenn Young Pdf

This is the largest collection of Best American Short Plays since its inception in 1937. The editors were so deeply impressed with the quality and character of this year's candidates that they selected a record-breaking 16 plays to represent the remarkable harvest of the 1992-1993 season.