Author : José Rivera
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573619045
"It's a play about a bright, Americanized son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents, a break that can't be made until the assimilated hero learns to accept the ethnic heritage that he has spent his life trying to suppress." -- New York Times review
Author : Una Chaudhuri
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472065899
The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Author : Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299162047
"Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez is among the most interesting and original minds at work in performance studies and American studies. José, Can You See? is a landmark achievement, an important contribution to 20th century American cultural history. Quite simply, there is no other critic of Latino popular culture who speaks with so much wisdom and wit, so much eloquence and expertise."--David Roman, University of Southern California
Author : Stephen Fife
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1480397172
(Applause Acting Series). This foray into the deeply serious and deeply funny (sometimes at the same time) world of life after 40 focuses primarily on scenes that depict the struggles of contemporary characters to come to terms with disappointment and obsolescence or to redeem their lives from the mistakes or miscalculations of their youth. It draws heavily on American classics like Long Day's Journey into Night , Death of a Salesman , The Price , Glengarry Glen Ross , Fences , and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , as well as more recent classics-in-the-making like August: Osage County , Good People , and God of Carnage . There is also ample representation from British playwrights like Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Simon Gray, and Peter Nichols, whose work also explores this territory of growing older in a society obsessed by youth and novelty.
Author : Todd London
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1559367628
Audition monologues for male characters selected from recent works by American playwrights including Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz, Constance Congdon, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Emily Mann, Eric Bogosian, Nicky Silver, and others. Unique to the TCG monologue series is a bibliography of other works by the playwrights included.
Author : Luis Ramos-García
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Hispanic American drama
ISBN : 9780815338802
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ed Hooks
Publisher : Back Stage Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0823099490
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078648683X
In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the text moves from Marx's theories to Wall Street speculation, nineteenth century immigration issues, the excesses of the Gilded Age and the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II and millennial economic challenges.
Author : John Guare
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573610288
Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives with his wife, Bananas. Who is. Much to the chagrin of Artie's downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus who'll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie's son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix stowing a home made-bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving are Artie's old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn with starlet girlfriend in tow, who holds the key to Artie's dreams of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives.
Author : Wendy Ann Kesselman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573618727
When two emotionally abused servant-sisters respond to their pent-up hostilities, brutal murder of their mistress is the result. Based on a historical incident in Le Mans, France in 1933.
