Plays, playscripts, drama
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Port City Signature
Book SynopsisA newcomer has missed her train in a seemingly sleepy English town and finds herself propositioned by a regular to kill the town's sheriff in exchange for a hefty reward.
£13.10
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Odyssey 84
Book SynopsisThe personal and the political collide in Tim Price's beautiful and heartfelt re-telling of the 1984 Miners' Strike, inspired by Homer's Odyssey
£14.19
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Content
Book SynopsisA darkly comic new play that blends multimedia, movement and live illustration that tells the story of the unseen people who are charged with scooping up the sum total of our daily online toxic waste
£13.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reykjavik
Book SynopsisIn 2011 Richard became the first playwright to win the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for two plays, The Heretic and One Man, Two Guvnors. The New York production of One Man, Two Guvnors was awarded the 2012 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play. His recent credits include Kiss Me (Hampstead), The Nap (Sheffield Crucible), Great Britain (National Theatre), Made in Dagenham: The Musical (Adelphi Theatre) and Pitcairn (Chichester Minerva Theatre/Shakespeare's Globe). Richard's other work includes Under the Whaleback (Royal Court. George Devine Award 2002), The Heretic (The Royal Court. Evening Standard Best New Play 2011), Honeymoon Suite (Pearson Play of the Year), Harvest (Critic's Circle Best New Play), The House of Games (from David Mamet's film), a new version of Moliere's The Hypochondriac, The Big Fellah (Out of Joint), England People Very Nice<
£13.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bartlett Plays 1
Book SynopsisThis first collection of Mike Bartlett''s plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters.My Child is a gut-wrenching exploration of the lengths a father will go to to have access to his child. The play creates a violent world where good intentions count for very little, and offers an incisive, honest look at what it means to be a good parent.Contractions is an ink-black comedy about work and play: Emma''s been seeing Darren. She thinks she''s in love. Her boss thinks she''s in breach of contract. The situation needs to be resolved. Artefacts depicts a father-daughter reunion which, after 16 years, crosses between the world of a British teenager and an Iraqi expert in antiquity, and is complicated by the ambivalent gift of a precious Mespotamian vase. Cock is a punchy play which takes a playful, candid look at one man''s sexuality and the difficulties that ar
£20.89
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nativities Modern Plays
Book SynopsisNativities is a darkly comic new play set in the wasteland of petty office politics, designated smoking areas and personal alienation.Excited about her new job as administrative assistant at a call centre, Stella is eager to fit in with her workmates and they seem to like her too, especially when they find out how much they all have in common. It's really like a family at Scion Communications so when they discover that Stella is pregnant they're all delighted for her. However, as her pregnancy progresses, their certainties about love, relationships and parenthood are questioned and their lives both at work and at home begin to unravel.Set somewhere between an Orwellian dystopian vision and an all too familiar contemporary reality, Cooper's writing turns a lens on everyday office life and how personalities are warped in its liminal space. Within the repeating motifs of the anonymity of the corporate existence, recurrent unvaried routines and ominously authoritative performanceTrade ReviewCooper has a fine eye for the banalities and brutalities of office life … a debut full of sparky intelligence that promises good things to come -- Alfred Hickling * Guardian *
£14.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Asian American Plays for a New Generation
Book SynopsisAsian American plays from the heartlandTrade Review"The quality of the plays in Asian American Plays for a New Generation and the diversity of the themes—interracial desire, racial profiling, and grief—is particularly impressive. The plays engage sophisticated ideas about migration and home; imposture and authenticity; political allegory; fantasy and reality; and, of course, identity politics. Lee’s Introduction and Shiomi’s Afterword serve to frame the work, providing the necessary grounding to orient the reader to the origins—and significance—of this fine volume."—Leslie Bow, Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, MadisonTable of ContentsIntroduction by Josephine Lee1. Indian Cowboy by Zaraawar Mistry2. The Walleye Kid: The Musical by R.A. Shiomi and Sundraya Kase3. Happy Valley by Aurorae Khoo4. Asiamnesia by Sun Mee Chomet5. Sia(b) by May Lee-Yang6. Bahala Na by Clarence Coo8. Ching Chong Chinaman by Lauren YeeAfterword by R.A. Shiomi
£64.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Asian American Plays for a New Generation
Book SynopsisAsian American plays from the heartlandTrade Review"The quality of the plays in Asian American Plays for a New Generation and the diversity of the themes-interracial desire, racial profiling, and grief-is particularly impressive. The plays engage sophisticated ideas about migration and home; imposture and authenticity; political allegory; fantasy and reality; and, of course, identity politics. Lee's Introduction and Shiomi's Afterword serve to frame the work, providing the necessary grounding to orient the reader to the origins-and significance-of this fine volume." -Leslie Bow, Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, MadisonTable of ContentsIntroduction by Josephine Lee 1. Indian Cowboy by Zaraawar Mistry 2. The Walleye Kid: The Musical by R.A. Shiomi and Sundraya Kase 3. Happy Valley by Aurorae Khoo 4. Asiamnesia by Sun Mee Chomet 5. Sia(b) by May Lee-Yang 6. Bahala Na by Clarence Coo 8. Ching Chong Chinaman by Lauren Yee Afterword by R.A. Shiomi
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Contested Spaces Counternarratives and Culture
Book SynopsisContested Spaces investigates space and conflict in novels, short stories, life writing, and journalism from Canada and Québec by asking how counter-narratives challenge geographies of exclusion from below.Trade Review"This excellent collection of fifteen essays by renowned scholars focuses on contested spaces and alternative or counternarratives. It invites rereading or reinterpreting of well-trodden ground and explores different voices and spaces in the discussion of the social meaning around space." -- Jane Koustas, Brock University * Journal of Contemporary Drama in English *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Reading Space Through Conflict ROXANNE RIMSTEAD and DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke) Part I: Contested Urban Spaces Chapter 1 : Culture and Critique During Mega-Events: The 2010 Olympics and the Right to the City JEFF DERKSEN (Simon Fraser University) Chapter 2: The Ambivalence of Enclosed Spaces in Immigrant Fiction: Between Refuge and Prison AMARYLL CHANADY (Université de Montréal) Chapter 3: Montreal Marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent SHERRY SIMON (Concordia University) Chapter 4: Heterotopia and Its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach RITA SAKR (University of London) Chapter 5: "Laisser-aller": Homelessness and Contained Space in Kobo Abe’s The Box Man and Robert Majzels’s City of Forgetting SIMON HAREL (Université de Montréal) Part II : Counter-Narratives and Spaces of the Nation/State Chapter 6: Unruly and Unremarked: Theatrical Spectatorship from Below in Nineteenth-Century Canada ALAN FILEWOD (University of Guelph) Chapter 7: Women’s Space in Postcolonial Perspective: France Théoret’s Une belle éducation and Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père MARY JEAN GREEN (Dartmouth College) Chapter 8: For King and Country? : War and Indigenous Masculinity DEENA RYMHS (University of British Columbia) Chapter 9: Reclaiming Indigenous Space through Testimonial Life Writing: An Antane Kapesh’s Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as Territorial Imperative NATASHA DAGENAIS (Université de Sherbrooke) Chapter 10: Norman Bethune and the Contested Spaces of Canadian Public Memory CANDIDA RIFKIND (University of Winnipeg) Part III: Culture from Below Chapter 11 : Knowing the Urban Other: Notes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Slumming in Novels and Reportage ROXANNE RIMSTEAD (Université de Sherbrooke) Chapter 12: "You Should Think about It, Think What It Means": Working Girls in Canadian Women’s Writing PATRICIA DEMERS (University of Alberta) Chapter 13: Border-Crossings and Alternative Social Spaces in Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion / The Tin Flute D. M. R. BENTLEY (Western University) Chapter 14: Growing Up Poor and Female in Montreal, 1930-1960: Women’s Autobiographies as Counter-Narratives PATRICIA SMART (Carleton University) Chapter 15: Tramping Across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian Literature DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke) Afterword
£60.35
University of Toronto Press Theatre in French Canada
Book SynopsisIt is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent, dismissing what had gone before. In this innovative history, Leonard Doucette sets out deal for the first time with all plays that have survived to 1867 and to link them with the evolution of politics, institutions, and culture in French Canada.The study of theatre has often been handicapped also by the outdated practice of defining the literary-cultural history of a nation by identifying the masterpieces produced in specific periods and then defining other works in terms of what they are not. The surprisingly rich and varied history of theatrical forms in French Canada has just begun to receive the attention it deserves from scholars. Some of the texts and authors referred
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shiver
Book SynopsisFrom the despair of aninut, even in a short shiva, the ice inside you is thawing, Mordecai, it will open you to the world if you let it. After, shloshim. After a year, yizkor, yarhrzeit. And yes, sorrow, but also hope, hope in those who'll welcome you, love you. Let them love you. Don't neglect God now that you need him.In Judaism you have seven days to mourn a loved one, unless interrupted by a high holy day. Sadie died yesterday, Yom Kippur is tomorrow, so Mordecai only has tonight to say goodbye to his wife. Exploring themes of identity, love and faith, Shiver is a comic play about grief and Judaism. With moments of farce, as well as a touch of the surreal, this is a skilfully written play that marks the start of an exciting playwriting career for Daniel Kanaber.Shiver received its world premiere at Watford Palace Theatre on 3 February 2014, starring David Horovitch (Hysteria, Hampstead Theatre; Grief, National Theatre; Seven Jewish ChildrenTrade Review. . . it is always refreshing to see a play that takes religion seriously. * Guardian *. . . a great premise, perfectly poised for a poignant comedy that . . . deals with universal concerns about grief, faith and identity. * Financial Times *. . . a smart and sympathetic piece of writing . . . * The Times *
£999.99
John Murray Press Masterclass Writing Plays
Book Synopsis LEARN HOW TO WRITE PLAYS AND HAVE THEM PERFORMEDWriting Plays is the invaluable and comprehensive guide to anyone who wants to write plays and get them performed. It covers the basics of the theatre, creating and working with characters, writing realistic speech and dialogue, constructing compelling plots and creating a great ending. There are also separate chapters focused on writing for different genres, including pantomimes, musicals, radio and television. And a final section looks at the practicalities of laying out, submitting and staging your play.ABOUT THE SERIESThe Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children''s books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page caTrade ReviewA comprehensive how-to guide that deals with every aspect of the playwriting business. - Writing Magazine
£14.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Islam in Performance
Book SynopsisAshis Sengupta is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He is the recipient of the Olive I Reddick award (1995), Fulbright American Studies Institute fellowship (2002), Fulbright visiting scholarship (2006) and SASNET guest lecturer grant (2009), and has published numerous essays and chapters on South Asian and American theatre in journals and edited volumes that include the Journal of American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Indian Literature, and DLB: South Asian Writers in English.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Performing Islam in South Asia Plays from Bangladesh Payer Awaj Pawa Jai/At the Sound of Marching Feet by Syed Shamsul Haq (translated by the author) Araj Charitamrita/Life of Araj by Masum Reza (translated by Bina Biswas and Sayantan Gupta) Plays from India The Djinns of Eidgah by Abhishek Majumdar Bahut Dur Tak Raat Hogi/The Far-Reaching Night by Zahida Zaidi (translated by Ameena Kazi Ansari) Plays from Pakistan Hum Rokaen Gae/We Shall Resist by Anwer Jafri (translated by Sheema Kermani) Dekh Tamasha Chalta Ban/Watch the Show and Move on by Shahid Nadeem (translated by Shuby Abidi) Notes on Contributors
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Sensation Drama 1860 1880
Book SynopsisThis pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press Sensation Drama 1860 1880
Book SynopsisThis pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy
Book SynopsisCharting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Play of Law in Modern British Theatre
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the credibility of this arresting claim in the immediate context of contemporary British theatre by investigating the place and purpose of law in a range of modern dramatic settings and writings.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature
Book SynopsisTraces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society.Trade Review"A probing study of criminal law, punishment, and the narratives that seek to justify or challenge them. Hudson considers crimes such as perjury and counterfeiting, which raise questions about invention and imagination, and examines them in relation to a wide range of legal, literary, and theological works that pose similar questions." -Simon Stern, University of Toronto
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Modernist Disguise
Book SynopsisThis book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press On the Threshold
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of hospitality in Shakespeare
£80.75
University of Texas Press Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater
Book SynopsisA selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture.Table of Contents Introduction The Day They Let the Lions Loose, by Emilio Carballido The Camp, by Griselda Gambaro The Library, by Carlos Maggi In the Right Hand of God the Father, by Enrique Buenaventura The Mulatto’s Orgy, by Luisa Josefina Hernandez Viña: Three Beach Plays, by Sergio Vodánovic
£21.59
University of Toronto Press Experimental Selves
Book SynopsisDrawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an experimental phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.Trade Review"Braider’s command of literature, history of ideas, and his ability to make philosophers, scientists, and writers think together is definitely impressive and insightful." -- Christophe Schuwey, Yale University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Experimental Selves joins a growing number of studies of early modern personhood... Braider explores the idea that, as he puts it, 'person itself is experiment' at length in relation to early modern theatre." -- Charles T. Wolfe, Cá’Foscari University * Publishing Research Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment 1. The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression 2. The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten’s London Peepshow 3. Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt’s Individual 4. Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fayre 5. Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière 6. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves 7. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made
£59.50
University of Toronto Press The Heresy of Wu Han
Book SynopsisAt the centre of China's Cultural Revolution in its first stages stands the ambiguous figure of Wu Han. Occupying until the mid-sixties a favoured position among the intellectual elite of the People's Republic, he was the eighth-ranking figure in the Chinese Communist Party, and his Peking Opera Hai Jui's Dismissal was performed all over China. Gradually it became apparent that Wu Han was using Hai Jui to lampoon Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the core policies of the CPP. Other dissidents began to pen articles and plays on similar themes. For several years Mao chafed under these literary attacks, but in late 1965 he retaliated. A sudden, scathing attack on Wu Han and his play by an obscure newspaper editor marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a cataclysm in which the Party leadership was decimated while Mao regained full supremacy. This volume presents the first translation of Wu Han's plays and helps to clarify the obscure origins of a national phenomenon that was at
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Cornell University Press How to Do Things with Dead People
Book SynopsisHow to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare''s English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead thingstechnologies such as literary doppelgängers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning. By situating Shakespeare''s historical drama in this intermedial conversation, Dailey challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes the context of a work of art and contests foundational models of linear temporality that inform long-standing conceptions of historical periodization and teleological ordTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Luminous Spiral and the Cigarette Box, or Technologies of the Afterdeath 1. Little, Little Graves: Shakespeare's Photographs of Richard II 2. Haunted Histories: Dramatic Double Exposure in Henry IV, Parts One and Two 3. Dummies and Doppelgängers: Performing for the Dead in 1 Henry VI 4. The King Machine: Reproducing Sovereignty in 3 Henry VI 5. Fuck Off and Die: The Queercrip Reign of Richard III Postscript: Lazarus Again
£88.33
Fordham University Press Nine Irish Plays for Voices
Book SynopsisA vibrant collection of short plays bringing Irish history and culture alive through an extraordinary collage of documents, songs, poems, and texts. In Nine Irish Plays for Voices, award-winning poet Eamon Grennan delves deep into key Irish subjects—big, small, literary, historical, political, biographical—and illuminates them for today’s audiences and readers. These short plays draw from original material centering on important moments in Irish history and the formation of the Irish Republic, such as the Great Famine and the Easter Rising; the lives of Irish literary figures like Yeats, Joyce, and Lady Gregory; and the crucial and life-changing condition of emigration. The rhythmic, musical, and vivid language of Grennan’s plays incorporates traditional song lyrics, lines of Irish poetry, and letters and speeches of the time. The result is a dramatic collage that tells a story through the voices of characters contemporary to the period of the play’s subject. By presenting subjects through the dramatic rendering of the human voice, the plays facilitate a close, intimate relationship between players and the audience, creating an incredibly powerful connection to the past. Historical moments and literary figures that might seem remote to the present-day reader or audience become immediate and emotionally compelling. One of the plays, Ferry, is drawn entirely from the author’s imagination. It puts unnamed characters who come from the world of twentieth-century Ireland on a boat to the underworld with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. On their journey the five strangers, played by two voices, tell stories about their lives, raising the question of how language both captures and transforms lived experience. Addressing the Great Famine, Hunger uses documentary evidence to give audiences a dramatic feel for what has been a silent and traumatic element in Irish history. Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse and Mr. Joyce is a one-woman piece that depicts James Joyce’s wife as an older woman sharing her memories and snippets from the works of her husband. Also included in this rich volume is the author’s adaptation of Synge’s Aran Islands, as well as Emigration Road, History! Reading the Easter Rising, The Muse and Mr. Yeats, The Loves of Lady Gregory, and Peig: An Ordinary Life.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Part One Hunger (2010) | 1 Emigration Road (2011) | 39 History! Reading the Easter Rising (2016) | 85 Part Two The Muse and Mr. Yeats (2013) | 127 Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse and Mr. Joyce (2014) | 171 J. M. Synge’s The Aran Islands (2009) | 207 The Loves of Lady Gregory (2018) | 235 Peig: An Ordinary Life (2020) | 279 Coda Ferry (2012) | 327 Acknowledgments | 367
£60.62
Fordham University Press Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery
Book SynopsisAn incendiary literary work more relevant now than ever. “if anger were an ax/it would split me open/and if this is a sermon/let it be my granddaddy’s sermon/my grandmother’s foottapping/steady rocking/choir singing” —from “This Is Not a New Age” First published in 1998, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery is the debut collection by acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed. Provocative and potent, it tackles the political and personal issues of enslavement, sexuality, emotional trauma, and abuse. These poems chart the journey of an artist trying to escape cycles of dependency and reclaim lost self and identity. Drawing parallels to Harriet Tubman’s journey on the Underground Railroad, Sneed’s explorations of the woods are a metaphor and emotional path one must explore to attain self-ownership. Sneed’s poems are bound by the search for love, freedom, and justice—from images of lesbian love to Emmet Till’s bloated body, they offer a raging cry and a roadmap for those interested in transforming the personal into social justice and abolitionist practices.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements | xi Preface: Genesis | xiii Part One Languages I've Never Learned | 5 The Final Solution | 6 The Silver Badge | 8 Eyes on the Prize | 13 Incest | 15 Jealousy | 16 Precious Crazy Girl Giggles | 17 Why Did You Have to Be a Poet? | 18 I haven't told you | 20 Blues Suite | 21 Elegy | 22 Rapunzel | 23 Underestimation of Power | 24 Teaching | 26 Stretch Marks and Cellulite | 28 New York | 31 When we broke up | 32 Planet of the Apes | 33 It is Not a New Age | 35 Part Two The Woods | 39 History hasn't told the truth about revolutionaries | 41 Monologue to God | 42 Dear God, | 44 The Artist | 46 The Revolutionary | 48 Helpful Hints for an Aspiring Martyr | 52 Woman in Love 1 | 53 Woman in Love 2 | 55 Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery | 57 Epilogue: Runaway | 63
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Arsenal Pulp Press How To Fail As A Popstar
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Out From Under: Texts by women performance
Book SynopsisUsing elements of autobiography to address such issues as religion, sex, race, family and the struggle of women to move beyond their traditional roles in society, these women integrate aspects of ritual, monologue, music, visual arts and theatre in their performances as they help to forge a new literary and theatrical tradition.
£17.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Three Sisters
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Essential Bogosian
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Gypsy
Book SynopsisThe musical tale of a domineering stage mother''s inadvertent creation of a burlesque stripper, now available in paperback for the first time.
£17.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The America Play and other works
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Dinner With Friends
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Gum
Book Synopsis In Karen Hartman’s "juicyfruit tragedy," two young sisters discover new appetites within the walls of their father’s garden. Gum explores the need to tame nature in a fictional fundamental country where the title candy is contraband and every desire has its price. "A brief, intense, beguiling, sensual, witty, impassioned, deeply moving and brightly burnished gem"—San Francisco Examiner. Also includes The Mother of Modern Censorship. Karen Hartman is the author of Girl Under Grain, Troy Women and Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl. She is a native of San Diego who lives in Brooklyn and is currently the playwright-in-residence at Princeton University.
£16.19
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. East/West Quartet
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. God of Vengeance
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays
Book Synopsis ?In the 21st century, the disability experience offers new perspectives on issues that promise to dominate the collective (un)consciousness: diversity vs. unity; difference vs. normalcy; rugged individualism vs. it-takes-a-village political ideologies; right-to-die; healthcare as a for-profit industry; care-giving within families and across the boundaries of gender, race and class. ?This anthology offers insights into the ongoing dialogue in our theatres about diversity, multiculturalism and universality, and the debates in our civic life about interdependence vs. independence. But in the end, I offer this anthology as a collection of irreverent, comic, terrifying and beautiful plays.??Victoria Ann Lewis This anthology, the first of its kind, explores how disabled artists depict the world they inhabit with their disabilities. Includes: P.H. *reaks: a collaborative project developed by Doris Baizley and Victoria Ann Lewis (Los Angeles, CA)Gretty Good Time by John Belluso (Los Angeles, CA)The History of Bowling by Mike Ervin (Chicago, IL)Creeps by David Freeman (Canada)Shoot by Lynn Manning (Los Angeles, CA)A Summer Evening in Des Moines by Charles Mee, Jr. (New York, NY)No One as Nasty by Susan Nussbaum (Chicago, IL) Victoria Ann Lewis is the founder and past director of the Mark Taper Forum?s ?Other Voices Project.? Emerging from the disability civil rights movement, the ?Other Voices Project? is the only professional playwriting program for writers with disabilities in the regional theatre.
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Light in the Piazza
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Road Show
Book Synopsis “Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner were brothers who, although they played only a minor role in the cultural history of this country, might well be seen to represent two divergent aspects of American energy: the builder and the squanderer.”—Stephen Sondheim “The score is full of delights, intelligence and tension . . . with a tight, funny book.”—New York Daily News Road Show, Stephen Sondheim’s first musical since his 1994 Tony Award–winner Passion, is making its highly anticipated New York premiere this season at the Public Theater. The show—with the book by John Weidman, Sondheim’s collaborator from Pacific Overtures and Assassins—has been in development for several years with productions in Chicago and Washington, DC, and grew from an idea that germinated in Sondheim’s mind some fifty years ago. The show dramatizes the real-life Mizner brothers, following their fortunes from the 1890s Alaskan gold rush to the 1920s Florida land boom: Addison as an architect and Wilson as a con man, each brother seeking his own American dream. Stephen Sondheim’s career spans from his work as lyricist for West Side Story and Gypsy, to composer/lyricist on such masterpieces as Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Sunday in the Park with George. John Weidman wrote the books for Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures and Assassins, and he co-authored the books for America’s Sweetheart and the revival of Anything Goes. He also co-created, with Susan Stroman, the Tony Award–winning Contact.
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Liars, Thieves and Other Sinners on the Bench
Book Synopsis “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.
£18.69
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Shipwrecked!
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. subUrbia
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Prayer For My Enemy
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Great God Pan
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£17.09
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country
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£20.39
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. 100 Monologues
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£999.99
