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Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640467
Cover title: The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. presents Charles Ludlam's The mystery of Irma Vep.
Author : Charles Ludlum
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781636701837
“Ludlam’s is a dazzling and significant body of work, and it should be accorded a place of greatest regard and honor in the American dramatic literary canon. The plays are funny, erudite, poetic, transgressive, erotic, moving, and so theatrical they seem the Platonic ideal of everything we mean when we use that word. The plays are the sublime expressions of what Ludlam insisted was not an aesthetic, but a moral vision: anti-Puritan, unsentimentally utopian, sexually destabilizing—a transporting, a transcendence by means of deflation, a joyous and subversive, even dangerous revelry leading to revelation, a wise and ecstatic celebration of the world.” –Tony Kushner (from his Preface) Artistic director, playwright, director, designer and star of New York's acclaimed Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the late Charles Ludlam ransacked theatrical and literary history in an evolutionary quest for a modern art of stage comedy. His more than 30 plays are among the most thought-provoking entertainments in the modern repertoire. As Ludlam himself put it, "This is farce, not Sunday school." This collection includes an introduction by Tony Kushner alongside Ludlam's most famous and celebrated works for the stage: The Mystery of Irma Vep: Ludlam's most famous play, this is a hilarious send up of Daphne de Maurier, Jane Eyre and Victorian cross dressing. One of the most produced plays in the United States, The Mystery of Irma Vep is “the most perfect expression of Ludlam’s approach to theatre: a play that simultaneously provokes terror, laughter and a grotesque mockery of all gender, literary and special boundaries” (Village Voice). Camille: based on La Dame aux Camélias, this satirical take on the tubercular courtesan brings any audience “to unexpected heights of pathos and laughter” (San Francisco Chronicle). Galas: the life of opera singer Maria Callas imagined as a modern tragedy, in which Ludlam himself assayed the part of the diva. Stage Blood: Ludlam's take on Shakespeare, with actors putting on Hamlet both on stage and back stage; somehow, in this tragedy, everything comes out for the best. Bluebeard: somewhat based on H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau, Bluebeard tells the story of a mad vivisectionist in search of a third sex.
Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:764086386
Author : Theatre Aquarius Archives (University of Guelph),Steward Arnott,Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:628872606
Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015050772592
The first collection of Ridiculus Theatre founder Charles Ludlum's major works in one volume.
Author : Tan Huaixiang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136084614
Part of your job as the costume designer is to be creative and use what materials are available to you to execute the design elements in a production. This book will show you how to use inexpensive materials to create durable products in a short amount of time that are practical and technical. It is written in an easy-to-follow manner and each step is shown with a wide array of illustrations and photographs. From creating armour out of laundry baskets, to detailed tricks to create a prosthetic nose for a witch, this book will show the techniques needed for you to produce end results that are beautiful, economical, and fast to make.
Author : Bonnie Marranca,Gautam Dasgupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015039924785
As a theatrical form, the "ridiculous" thrived in the 1970s and early 1980s, playfully subverting dramatic and social convention in its mix of camp, role-playing, literary and cinematic allusions--and anticipating the current interest in gender, cross-dressing, and popular culture. Originally published in 1979, THEATRE OF THE RIDICULOUS (now revised and updated) was the first book to document this innovative and challenging form.
Author : Kellen Blair,Joe Kinosian
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573708343
Officer Marcus Moscowicz is a small town policeman with dreams of making it to detective. One fateful night, shots ring out at the surprise birthday party of Great American Novelist Arthur Whitney and the writer is killed…fatally. With the nearest detective an hour away, Marcus jumps at the chance to prove his sleuthing skills—with the help of his silent partner, Lou. But whodunit? Did Dahlia Whitney, Arthur's scene-stealing wife, give him a big finish? Is Barrette Lewis, the prima ballerina, the prime suspect? Did Dr. Griff, the overly-friendly psychiatrist, make a frenemy? Marcus has only a short amount of time to find the killer and make his name before the real detective arrives… and the ice cream melts!
Author : Rick Roemer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786445106
In the late 1960s, Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) brought his unique brand of theatre to New York audiences. Based in part on traditional comic characters, his "ridiculous" school included such inspirations as Hollywood B movies, camp, drag, and opera. His shows were also a study in self-collaboration; Ludlam acted as playwright, director, designer, and actor in his own Off Broadway theatre--the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Critically, Ludlam's works were often overlooked or misunderstood, and since his death The Mystery of Irma Vep is the only one of his 29 plays consistently performed in regional theatres. This work provides an overview of Ludlam's life, explores the theatrical underpinnings of his work and goes on to cover the entire Ludlam canon. The book includes examinations of such plays as Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde, Bluebeard, Galas and Stage Blood. It concludes with a look at Ludlam's work in the 1980s when he focused on presenting new plays, many of them original farces.
Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015028424094
Author : Jo Carson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559366328
“Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unfl inching honesty.”—Publishers Weekly, on the work of Jo Carson “She is a quintessential community artist with a true ear for the way people talk and what they really mean to say. Her work has inspired innumerable young artists to take up work with their own communities.”—Linda Frye Burnham, Community Arts Network “Human experience is varied and astonishing,” notes Jo Carson, “and this is a taste.” A uniquely American writer and performer, Carson has spent fifteen years working with peoples’ stories in communities across the country, crafting more than thirty plays from the oral histories she has collected. In performance, these works have illuminated and invigorated the communities in which they were forged, as the people see themselves onstage in a new light. This book collects Carson’s favorite excerpts from the plays—stories that range from the homespun to the extraordinary and together create a portrait of America in an amazing diversity and authenticity of voices. They are slices of life, passed beyond the circle of family and neighbors. Jo Carson is a writer and performer living in John City, Tennessee. She has published award-winning plays, short stories, children’s books, essays, poems, and other work, and for years was a commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Her play Whispering to Horses and solo show If God Came Down . . . premiered at Seven Stages Theatre in Atlanta, and her book of monologues and dialogues, Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet, made Booklist’s editor’s choice and the American Library Association’s recommended list.
Author : GUSTAVE. FLAUBERT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033208396
Author : John Bishop
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822207923
THE STORY: The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious Stage Door Slasher) assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy angel.
Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781458781383
Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul is the most remarkable play in a decade...without a doubt the most important of our time.''--John Heilpern, New York Observer In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, this play premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had subsequent highly successful productions in London, Providence, Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. This version incorporates all the playwright's changes and is now the definitive version of the text.
Author : Jennifer Haley
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573663239
3m, 2f / Dark Comedy / Unit Set In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own. "Playing like a nifty episode of 'The Twilight Zone', the story builds to an affectingly grues