Final Dress Rehearsal. A Farce in One Act
Author : Jack Frakes
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Jack Frakes
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : John Dean Frakes
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Page : 79 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Michael Frayn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1350184861
“As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.” The Guardian A play-within-a-play following a touring theatre company who are rehearsing and performing a comedy called Nothing On, results in a riotous double-bill of comedic craft and dramatic skill. Hurtling along at breakneck speed it shows the backstage antics as they stumble through the dress-rehearsal at Weston-super-Mare, then on to a disastrous matinee at Ashton-under-Lyne, followed by a total meltdown in Stockton-on-Tees. Michael Frayn's irresistible, multi-award-winning backstage farce has been enjoyed by millions of people worldwide since it premiered in 1982 and has been hailed as one of the greatest British comedies ever written. Winner of both Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Comedy. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Blakemore.
Author : John Dean Frakes
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 1960
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780573601576
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Page : 582 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Child rearing
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Child rearing
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Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 1917
Category : American literature
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Copyright
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 702 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 1937
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Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0795346883
A collection of critical writings on theater from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Man and Superman and Pygmalion. The Critical Shaw: On Theater is a comprehensive selection of essays and addresses about drama and theater by renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw. An outspoken critic of the melodramas and formulaic farces that comprised most of the popular theater in the late nineteenth century, Shaw relentlessly campaigned for audiences, actors, theater managers, and even government officials to take theater more seriously, to use the stage as a forum for representing complex real issues such as poverty, marriage and divorce laws, sexual attraction, gender equality, and political power, so that through seeing them acted out, audiences could better understand and address them when they left the theater. Shaw’s commitment to social reform through theater was matched by his expertise in the artistic and practical aspects of drama: whether he was reviewing productions, lecturing about acting, or schooling agents on royalties and copyright law, Shaw set a standard for intelligent professionalism that our own theaters might still aspire to and be measured against. The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw’s voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaw’s life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.