Book Description
Latest plays by the author of The Baltimore Waltz.
Author : Paula Vogel
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559361446
Latest plays by the author of The Baltimore Waltz.
Author : Lee Brewer Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350251720
In this volume, Lee Brewer Jones examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and renowned teacher, analyzing texts and early reviews of Vogel's major plays-including Indecent, Desdemona, How I Learned to Drive, and The Baltimore Waltz-before turning attention to her influence upon other major American playwrights, including Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, and Quiara Alegría Hudes. Chapters explore Vogel's plays in chronological order, consider her early influences and offer detailed accounts of her work in performance. Enriched by an interview with Lynn Nottage and essays from scholars Ana Fernández-Caparrós and Amy Muse, this is a vibrant exploration of Paula Vogel as a major American playwright. By the time Paula Vogel made her Broadway debut with her 2017 Rebecca Taichman collaboration Indecent, she was already an accomplished playwright, with a Pulitzer Prize for How I Learned to Drive (1998) and two Obie Awards. She had also enjoyed a brilliant career as a professor at Brown and Yale with students such as Sarah Ruhl, a MacArthur Genius Grant winner, Pulitzer Prize winners Nilo Cruz, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and the only woman to win two Pulitzers for Drama, Lynn Nottage. Vogel's theatre draws upon Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky and uses devices such as defamiliarization and negative empathy to challenge conventional definitions of protagonists and antagonists.
Author : Paula Vogel
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822213598
THE STORY: When Anna, an unmarried schoolteacher, is diagnosed with ATD, Acquired Toilet Disease, a fatal new malady with a high risk factor for elementary school teachers, she and her brother Carl take flight to Europe. Anna decides she wants to d
Author : Paula Vogel
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559367148
Pulitzer-Prize winning author of How I Learned to Drive's newest play.
Author : Paula Vogel
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1994
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780822213918
THE STORY: Having slept with Othello's entire encampment, Desdemona revels in her bawdy tales of conquest. Her foils and rapt listeners are the other integral and re-imagined women of this Shakespeare tragedy: Emilia, Desdemona's servant and the wi
Author : Paula Vogel
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559368683
“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire, and fear, and it’s shrewd about the ways in which America isn’t free, and about how art does and doesn’t transcend the perilous winds of history.” —New Yorker “Superbly realized…Indecent, the powerful play by Paula Vogel, sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected, with explosive results.” —New York Times “Gorgeous. Illuminating and heartbreaking. Rich in sympathy and humor, Indecent has the scope of an epic but the intimacy of a chamber piece…It celebrates and illustrates the power of theater.” —Time Out New York “A moving and fascinating play…A singular achievement… The historical perspective is vast and knowing…Has there ever been anything quite like Indecent, a play that touches—I mean deeply touches—so much rich emotion about history and the theater, anti-Semitism, homophobia, censorship, world wars, red-baiting, and oh, yes, joyful human passion?...An extraordinary play.” —Newsday “Indecent is more than a play about forbidden love: It’s about theater as a life force.” —New York Post When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn’t imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play’s subject matter wasn’t deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel’s newest work traces the trajectory of the show’s success through its tour in Europe to its abrupt and explosive demise on Broadway in 1923—including the arrest of the entire production’s cast and crew. Paula Vogel is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of How I Learned to Drive. Her other plays include Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, A Civil War Christmas, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and The Baltimore Waltz, among others. She has also had a distinguished career as a teacher and mentor to younger playwrights, first at Brown University and then at the Yale School of Drama.
Author : Paula Vogel
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN :
THE STORY: As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they str
Author : Sholem Asch
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781019372487
The God of Vengeance is a groundbreaking drama by one of the most celebrated Yiddish playwrights of the early 20th century. The play explores themes of love, sexuality, and religious piety through the story of a Jewish brothel owner whose daughter falls in love with one of his prostitutes. Asch's work is a seminal work of modern Jewish literature and remains relevant today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Paula Vogel
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822221074
THE STORY: Anna, Ruth and Peter await the arrival of their newborn child, but first they must rid the crowded apartment of their three imaginary children.
Author : Paula Vogel
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822216230
Chronicles the relationship between Li'l Bit and Uncle Peck through a series of flashbacks as it progresses from friendship to something darker during a series of driving lessons.