Author : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 082223226X
Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.
Author : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2024-07-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1636702384
Includes Revised Broadway version of Appropriate. Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play. A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers. In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch. An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece. Also includes the short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...
Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher : Litres
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040658508
Author : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822237229
This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living.
Author : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822234335
THE STORY: This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.
Author : Amy Herzog
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822225102
THE STORY: The brilliant, promising Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire
Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 147253817X
'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard Three gods come to earth hoping to discover one really good person. No one can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Rewarded by the gods, she gives up her profession and buys a tabacco shop but finds it is impossible to survive as a good person in a corrupt world without the support of her ruthless alter ego Shui Ta. Brecht's parable of good and evil was first performed in 1943 and remains one of his most popular and frequently produced plays worldwide. This Student Edition features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780140435887
This unique volume includes eight early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tylers The Contrast (1789); William Dunlap'sAndre (1798); James Nelson Barker's The Indian Princess (1808); Robert Montgomery Bird's The Gladiator (1831); William Henry Smith's The Drunkard(1844); Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845); George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852); and Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon (1859). For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822239663
At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place…! FAIRVIEW is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of white supremacy.
Author : Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1472585100
I'm not doing a German accent You aren't doing an African accent We aren't doing accents A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling? Award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave. We Are Proud To Present . . . received its European premiere at the Bush Theatre, London, on 28 February 2014.
