Book Description
A collection of three modern plays by the master of the absurd and member of the French Academy.
Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802130983
A collection of three modern plays by the master of the absurd and member of the French Academy.
Author : Eugene Ionesco
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573614741
The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition, a staple of every theatre classroom and 20th century drama. A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens become rhinoceroses. One sane man, Berenger, remains, unable to change his form and identity.
Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802190758
“With outrageous comedy” this classic of Absurdist drama “attacks the most serious subjects: blind conformity and totalitarianism, despair and death” (The New York Times). In Rhinoceros, as in his other plays, Eugene Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the “movement” is universal. This is not an invasion of wild animals, but a transformation of average citizens into beasts, as they learn to move with the times. As the curtain comes down, only one desperate man remains. Rhinoceros is a commentary on the absurdity of the human condition made tolerable only by self-delusion. It shows us the struggle of the individual to maintain integrity and identity in a world where all others have succumbed to the “beauty” of brute force and mindlessness.
Author : EUGENE. IONESCO
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9780714548487
Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Bruce Jay Friedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2000-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0226263509
This collection of essays, published from the 1960s to the 1990s, relates Friedman's humorous yet scrutinizing thoughts on a variety of subjects, from a butler school in Houston to numerous personalities such as Castro and Clinton.
Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802142771
Contains the scripts of nine significant plays of the modern theater, written between 1944 and 1975 by playwrights including Harold Pinter, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Slawomir Mrozek, Tom Stoppard, and David Mamet.
Author : Michele Wucker
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1466887001
The #1 English-language bestseller in China--the book that is shaping China's planning and policy for the future. A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings and visible evidence. The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the new digital technologies that upended the media world, the fall of the Soviet Union...all were evident well in advance. Why do leaders and decision makers keep failing to address obvious dangers before they spiral out of control? Drawing on her extensive background in policy formation and crisis management, as well as in-depth interviews with leaders from around the world, Michele Wucker shows in The Gray Rhino how to recognize and strategically counter looming high impact threats. Filled with persuasive stories, real-world examples, and practical advice, The Gray Rhino is essential reading for managers, investors, planners, policy makers, and anyone who wants to understand how to profit by avoiding getting trampled.
Author : William S. Haney II
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9401205787
Integral Drama critically explores modern drama in the context of Indian aesthetics described in the Natyashastra and the vast, new interdisciplinary field of consciousness studies. It also focuses on how Indian theatre aesthetics has influenced modern drama theories and practice, and the extent to which this has promoted the development of higher consciousness in actors and audience. According to Indian aesthetics, rasa or aesthetic rapture is refers to bliss innate in the Self that manifests even in the absence of external sources of happiness. Overall, this book explores the relation between modern theatre and higher states of mind and demonstrates that one of the key purposes of theatre is to help the spectator experience the pure consciousness event described in consciousness studies by theorists such as Anna Bonshek, Ken Wilber, Robert K. C. Forman, Jonathan Shear, Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Ralph Yarrow and others. Integral Drama will appeal not only to drama theorists but also to teachers and students of acting, as well as an educated general audience interested in understanding the aesthetic experience of theatre. Integral Drama, moreover, can be used as a textbook for acting and drama theory classes and would also appeal to university and public libraries. The book serves as a bridge between the ideas and experiences long understood through Indian philosophy and the many questions raised by modern theatre studies.
Author : Charles Fuge
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781862337152
A little girl spends the day playing with her animals, having tea with a rhino, spinning with a hippo, and laughing with a giraffe.