Sincerity forever, 2001
Author :
Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing In
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release :
Category : Theater
ISBN :
Sincerity Forever
Author : Mac Wellman
Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing In
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780881452747
Book Description
Two profane aliens have landed in the Southern town of Hillsbottom. Is God watching? Does he care? Is God a He? Mac Wellman addresses these and other questions in this Obie Award-winning play that skewers the social malignancy of ignorance. In 2003, The Village Voice gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Mac Wellman: "... [he] has long situated himself on the frontier of new forms. He's not only an experimental dramatist of the first rank, but also an eloquent champion of the avant-garde ... Like Beckett's characters, the figures in his work inhabit both a purely theatrical world and a space that will not let you forget the social realities compounding the existential mystery." "In SINCERITY FOREVER, Mac Wellman's savage comedy about everyday lunacies in America, two adolescent girls in a dirt-poor Southern town calmly accept the order of the universe. God must have a plan, says one, or why else would He keep both of them 'ignorant forever in absolute sincerity.' Like everyone else in Hillsbottom, the two are wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes. They are blissful in their brainlessness, confessing they cannot tell good art from bad art and do not know why junk bonds are junky. The conversation dwells on important matters like boyfriends rather than on child abuse or the plutonium-poisoned water that is killing their community. Mr Wellman's view of contemporary society is dire but not doleful. In his headlong search for social and political commentary, he never neglects his comical instincts, starting with the fact that the play is dedicated to Jesse Helms ... The framework of the play is fantasy. A 'mystic furball' has infected Hillsbottom. What, you may ask, are furballs? They are foul-mouthed aliens that look like partly plucked chickens. The two who have landed (or have emerged from Hell) are played in full comic plumage ... Because of the play's graphic language and its approach to piety, some theatergoers may find SINCERITY FOREVER offensive, a fact that should please the playwright. Mr Wellman does not play anything safe as he does his danse macabre far out on the cutting edge." -Mel Gussow, The New York Times
The Facts on File Companion to American Drama
Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1438129661
Book Description
Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Writing and the Modern Stage
Author : Julia Jarcho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107132355
Book Description
This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.
Leap of Honesty
Author : Stephen Frederick Uhl
Publisher : Humanist Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2014-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0931779510
Book Description
Faithful Catholic priest become atheist psychologist shows how he himself shucked and how the reader can enjoy shucking childhood prejudices and superstitions to thrill to rational friendliness in our pluralistic planetary society. This book could have been titled “The Book of Tolerance.” The psychologist author recognizes that each of us learned a lot of traditions and beliefs when too young to evaluate them. Such prejudices are very deeply ingrained into the subconscious. Therefore they are often most difficult to overcome even in adult years and with further experience and education. (Dr. Uhl was already in his 30s when he finally got free; many people never get free.) Each of us grows up and learns to analyze and think critically at different speeds. Even in the same family one sibling may remain highly opinionated and prejudiced, stuck in the past, while another thoughtfully unlearns childhood myths and becomes a broadminded adult. Therefore, tolerance of such differing rates of learning and unlearning is necessary for civilized peace good friendships in a pluralistic society. Such patient understanding is less difficult when one follows the new Golden Rule: Treat others as you would reasonably want and expect them to treat you if your roles were reversed. The thrilling details of an exciting journey with our planetary neighbors are clearly laid out in the little book, Leap of Honesty – Priest to Atheist. A generous sprinkling of earthy humor richly seasons this revolutionary book for enjoyable spiritual nourishment. Previously published as Out of God’s Closet and Imagine No Superstition.
Forever Green
Author : Cathal Liam
Publisher : St. Padraic Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9780970415547
Book Description
A collection of writing by the author melds a rich stew of imaginative stories, political commentary and original poems.
The Price Guide to Limited Edition Collectibles 2001
Author : Mary L. Sieber
Publisher :
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780873419291
Book Description
Get the latest prices on limited edition art, contemporary collectibles, and gifts. Enthusiasts can accurately value their collections with more than 61,000 current market prices and easily find any figurine, plate, print, doll, ornament or stein, using the company name and collecting category indexes. 200 photos. 8-page color section.
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
Author : Alexei Yurchak
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400849101
Book Description
Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, ideals, and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the post-Soviet period. The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie--and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state.
Encyclopedia of American Drama
Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2466 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1438140762
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
China's Securities Market
Author : Jing Bian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317818784
Book Description
This book provides an analysis of the development of the Chinese securities market, with special reference to the information disclosure regimes in Mainland China, the UK, and Hong Kong. It examines the listed companies, stock exchanges, securities companies, financial intermediaries, financial regulators and investor protection of the system in China, the UK and Hong Kong. The book looks at the role and functions of the securities regulatory commission, and highlights the details and insights that generally reveal the past and current status of the information disclosure regime in the Chinese securities market. By identifying problems and their reasons, the book forms an approach to further develop securities regulation.
