Author : Nathan Alan Davis
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573706158
Eighteen-year-old Dontrell Jones the Third decides that it is his duty and destiny to venture into the Atlantic Ocean in search of an ancestor lost during the Middle Passage. But his family is not at all ready to abandon its prized son to the waters of a mysterious and haunting past. Blending poetry, humor, wordplay, and ritual, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea is a present-day hero's quest exploring the lengths and depths we must go to redeem history's wrongs.
Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1493053248
Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men’s monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights such as Don Nigro, Theresa Rebeck, Rob Ackerman, Len Jenkin, Stephen Belber, and Tim Blake Nelson, and future stars such as David MacGregor, Reina Hardy, Chris Daftsios, Frank Basloe, and Will Arbery. There are terrific comic and dramatic pieces, and all represent the best of contemporary playwriting. This collection is an invaluable resource for aspiring actors hoping to ace their auditions and impress directors and teachers with contemporary pieces.
Author : Joseph J. Shelly (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Theaters
ISBN :
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, in partnership with the Johnny Carson School of Theater, Film, and Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, chose to produce Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea in March of 2021. Playwright Nathan Alan Davis completed the play in 2017. He is originally from Rockford, Illinois, and a graduate of Indiana University. Dontrell was his second produced play, premiering in June 2014 at the Source Festival in Washington, DC. Several theatres since 2014 have produced the play, and ours was the third show of the 2021-2022 season. The director was Ron Himes, the Founder and Producing Director of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company. Himes and Nebraska Repertory Theatre artistic director Andy Park agreed to mount the production on the Howell Stage, a 300-seat proscenium theater located in the Temple building on the University campus. After its performances here, it was to travel to the Samuel B. and Charles B. Edison Theatre, located in the Mallinckrodt Center in the Washington University campus. Performances in St. Louis were delayed until June of 2022, however, due to concerns with Covid-19. The Nebraska graduate faculty assigned me the role of Technical Director for the production in March of 2021. This role put me in charge of budgeting materials and labor, drafting and engineering scenery, managing personnel, maintaining safety, scheduling space times, loading scenery into the venue, communicating, and collaborating with other departments, communicating, and collaborating with St. Louis Black Rep for shipping and installation of the show in St. Louis, and upholding the conceptual design of the Scenic Designer. This thesis will focus on my process and experience as said Technical Director for the production to demonstrate that I possessed the proficiency skills required for successful completion of the above tasks.
Author : Nathan Alan Davis
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573706141
In August 1831, Nat Turner led a slave uprising that shook the conscience of the nation. Turner's startling account of his prophecy and the insurrection was recorded and published by attorney Thomas R. Gray. Nathan Alan Davis writes a timely new play that imagines Turner's final night in a jail cell in Jerusalem, Virginia, as he is revisited by Gray and they reckon with what has passed, and what the dawn will bring. Woven with vivid imagery and indelible lyricism, Nat Turner in Jerusalem examines the power of an individual's resolute convictions and their seismic reverberations through time.
Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1493053264
Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published women’s monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights such as Don Nigro, Saviana Stanescu, and Len Jenkin and future stars such as Lia Romeo, Steven Hayet, Lori Fischer, Will Arbery, and Carey Crim. There are terrific comic and dramatic pieces, and all represent the best of contemporary playwriting. This collection is an invaluable resource for aspiring actors hoping to ace their auditions and impress directors and teachers with contemporary pieces.
Author : Caridad Svich
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1559368640
A collection of thoughtful and provocative reflections on how theatre practitioners think about and engage with audiences, as well as define and explore sites for performance. Through shared experience and ritual, live performance functions as a catalytic medium for progress and evolution. In the hands of artists and audience, the stage is set for the re-makings of commonwealth, or necessary revolution. Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theater, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel.
Author : Annie Silvestro
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 055353758X
Join Bunny as he takes a a top-secret trip to the library in a story that celebrates the love of reading! Bunny loves to sit outside the library with the kids and listen to summer story time. But when the weather gets cold and everyone moves inside, his daily dose of joy is gone. Desperate, Bunny refuses to miss out on any more reading time and devises a plan to sneak into the library at night . . . through the library’s book drop! What follows is an adorable caper that brings an inquisitive, fuzzy bunny and his woodland pals up close and personal with the books they have grown to love. A warm celebration of the power of books, Bunny’s Book Club is sure to bring knowing smiles to any child, parent, teacher, bookseller, and librarian who understands the one-of-a-kind magic of reading.
Author : Kait Kerrigan
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573708290
Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... 18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly’s killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision. Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?
Author : Philip Dawkins
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822239744
Tennessee Williams and William Inge today are recognized as two of the greatest American playwrights, whose work irrevocably altered the theatrical and social landscapes. In 1944, however, neither had achieved anything like genuine success. As flamboyant genius Williams prepares for the world premiere of his play The Gentleman Caller—to become The Glass Menagerie—self-loathing Inge struggles through his job as a theater critic, denying his true wish to be writing plays. Based on real-life but closed-door encounters, reconstructed from troves of comments (and elisions) by each man about their relationship, Philip Dawkins gorgeously envisions what might have taken place during those early-career meetings.
Author : Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher : Soft Skull Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN :
On November 13, 2002, the author decided to write a play every day for a year. She began that same day. The result, completed exactly one year later, is this collection of 365 plays.
