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Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1557836965
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 : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781480386129
(Best American Short Plays). Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays, Volume One is a must for actors of all ages beginners as well as seasoned veterans and belongs in the libraries of all theater teachers looking for new and exciting material for their students. The monologues in this volume are excerpted from the outstanding series Best American Short Plays, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today, presenting taut, engaging single-character pieces that range from zany comedy to poignant tales of love and loss. Each monologue includes a short introduction and a reference identifying where to locate the entire play, should anyone choose to pursue production beyond the monologue. Long or short, serious or not, this collection is must-have material for anyone interested in acting. The monologues also succeed as excellent companions for the casual reader.
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781495009563
BEST MONOLOGUES FROM THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS VOLUME 2
Author : Robert Benedetti
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478650263
Multiple award-winning producer and leading teacher of acting Robert Benedetti offers a no-nonsense, detailed, and clearly structured approach to the fundamentals of acting for the camera. Benedetti uses the same approach he has employed in writing and teaching for over fifty years — defining underlying principles, presenting them in a logically sequential program of development, and providing experiential exercises to help future, as well as experienced, actors shine in film and television.
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781495009556
(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 : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781495035418
(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 : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781480397217
(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 : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443803915
From the 1960s to the present day, John Guare’s plays have ranged from one-act to cyclic, realistic to surrealistic, naturalistic to experimental, and tragic to comic dramas. This study’s approach to the cornucopia the playwright himself provided when in an interview he gave a fundamental aesthetic principle of his craft. Like a person—and Guare’s plays develop the personal as well as the artistic self—a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. The ground is traditional theatre with characters, no matter how larger than life they can be, and plot, no matter how illogical it can be. The soaring is in interrupting the action with monological narratives and musical interludes, bringing characters back from the dead, and having the action take hairpin turns into a mixture of genres and styles, modes and tones. In verbal and visual images, the flight invokes works by authors as varied as Aeschylus and Whitman, Dante and Feydeau, Verdi and Romberg. Soaring from ground to new ground, the theatre creates the transmission of the American heritage in Lake Hollywood, an idealism corrupted by a fraudulent American Dream in Lydie Breeze, and the recovery of the past in A Few Stout Individuals. As Guare said about his plays: they “interconnect.”
Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1557836957
A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317326571
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123422722
Author : Stratos E. Constantinidis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455393
Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 28th annual conference held in Columbus, Ohio. Topics covered include Euripides, German and Russian theatre, dramatic antecedents of the striptease, surrogate love in The Glass Menagerie, surrealist drama, Greek comedy and the American concept musical, and theatre and politics.
Author : Donald Steele
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573632898
Author : Barbara Parisi
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1557837112
(Best American Short Plays). The acclaimed series has a new editor. Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our new editor, Barbara Parisi, has selected the following 14 plays: Crazy Eights by David Lindsay-Abaire; He Came Home One Day While I Was Washing Dishes by K. Biadaszkiewicz; Fin & Euba by Audrey Cefaly; I'll Do it Tomorrow by Michael Roderick; Arkadelphia by Samuel Brett Williams; Reading List by Susan Miller; Such a Beautiful Voice Is Sayeda's and Karima's City by Yussef El Guindi; Charlie Blake's Boat by Graeme Gillis; The News by Billy Aronson; Heights by Amy Fox; The Devil Is in the Details by Jill Elaine Hughes; Letty on a Bench by Jolene Goldenthal; and Erros-Love Is Deaf by Cherie Vogelstein.
Author : Roberta Uno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317280446
In the two decades since the first edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color was published, its significance to the theatrical landscape in the United States has grown exponentially. Work by female writers and writers of color is more widely produced, published, and studied than ever before. Drawing from an exciting range of theaters, large and small, from across the country, Roberta Uno brings together an up-to-date selection of plays from renowned and emerging playwrights tackling a variety of topics. From the playful to the painful, this revised and updated edition presents a rich array of voices, aesthetics, and stories for a transforming America.