Author : Chuck Smith
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Seven winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.
Author : Chuck Smith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2007-07-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810123908
Three winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.
Author : Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 1990-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253113660
"Fine reading and a superb resource." -- Ms. "Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." -- Choice "As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience." -- Voice Literary Supplement "Perkins' anthology is valuable for a number of reasons... Perkins' book (which includes a bibliography of plays and pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected bibliography of critical works) is a major help in providing access to [the world of black drama]." -- Theatre Journal The need to acknowledge these works was the impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers who were among the major dramatizers of the black experience during this early period. As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.
Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1101173696
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts. August Wilson's Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom. Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them.
Author : Sonia Sanchez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0822393050
Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her ongoing concern with the well-being of the black community, and her commitment to social justice. In addition to The Bronx Is Next (1968), Sister Son/ji (1969), Dirty Hearts (1971), Malcolm/Man Don’t Live Here No Mo (1972), and Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974), this collection includes the never-before-published dramas I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t (1982) and 2 X 2 (2009), as well as three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and activism. Jacqueline Wood’s introduction illuminates Sanchez’s stagecraft in relation to her poetry and advocacy for social change, and the feminist dramatic voice in black revolutionary art.
Author : Nelson Rodrigues
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786827159
Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialogue. He went on to write many other seminal plays and today is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest playwright. This volume contains brand-new translations of the plays Wedding Dress; Waltz No. 6; All Nudity Will Punished; Forgive Me for Your Betrayal; Family Portraits; Black Angel and Seven Little Kitties.
Author : Gunnar Dickfeld
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 3940563757
For more than four thousand years people have been fascinated by the Asian strategic board game Go. It has always been regarded as a beneficial way to foster creative thinking. This workbook is dedicated to players who would like deepen their understanding of the game. The exercises are limited to the most important topic: opening, capturing races, life and death, tesuji, invasions and endgame. The degree of difficulty of the exercises within each chapter varies from easy to challenging. You will train your perception of local positions and improve your skills for actual games accordingly. You will enjoy seeing your understanding of the game improve, and learn to surprise your friends and playing partners with deft moves.
Author : Robert Benedetti
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1478650389
Since the first edition of The Actor in You was published a quarter-century ago, thousands of students have benefited from Robert Benedetti’s decades of experience educating some of the United States’ finest actors. In this Seventh Edition, Benedetti expresses the fundamental elements of acting in simple language, leading readers through understanding their own bodies and voices, acting technique, and the basics of rehearsals and staging shows. Each step includes exercises to aid students in self-discovery and self-development as they grow from novices into practiced actors.
Author : Edward Lasker
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 048614304X
Best introduction in English to a great Japanese game. Detailed instructions provide valuable information on basic patterns, strategy, tactics, analyzed games. Used as text by generations of Americans, Japanese. 72 diagrams.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810879506
From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years. Contemporary American theater has produced some of the most memorable, beloved, and important plays in history, including Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barefoot in the Park, Our Town, The Crucible, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Odd Couple. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater presents the plays and personages, movements and institutions, and cultural developments of the American stage from 1930 to 2010, a period of vast and almost continuous change. It covers the ever-changing history of the American theater with emphasis on major movements, persons, plays, and events. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 1,500 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of American theater.
