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Book Synopsis An Outopia for Pigeons by : Justin Maxwell
Download or read book An Outopia for Pigeons written by Justin Maxwell and published by Original Works Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author: Justin Maxwell Synopsis: The last passenger pigeon on earth, named Martha Washington, is desperately trying to save her species by building a Foucault-inspired outopia (a non-place.) Assisting Martha is a sperm whale named Charles Bronson, a whale so tough they named the toughest actor of all time after him. Their work is complicated by the arrival of Cotton Mather, a 300 hundred year old Puritan minister and witch burner extraordinaire, who has problems of his own. Cast Size: 2 Females, 2 Males
Book Synopsis (M)Other Perspectives by : Lynn Deboeck
Download or read book (M)Other Perspectives written by Lynn Deboeck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration. Across the breadth of these themes, we interrogate the cultural implications and politics of how we script, perform, receive, and define mothers, challenging many of the normalizing and patriarchal tropes associated with the mother-as-character. This book includes critical essays examining twenty-first century dramatic literature, first-hand ethnographic accounts of motherhood in practice, interviews, feminist manifestos, and artist reflections. In its deliberately curated variety, this collection seeks to resist homogeneity and offer instead a range of approaches to key questions: what versions of motherhood get staged, and why? And what do dramatic representations tell us about the role of mothers in our own fraught contemporary moment? This collection will be of great interest to those in academia who are teaching, researching, or studying in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, American Studies, and Feminist and Gender Studies.
Book Synopsis The Playwright's Toolbox by : Justin Maxwell
Download or read book The Playwright's Toolbox written by Justin Maxwell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To an unusual degree among writers, playwrights’ creations are not simply words on a page. Instead, a well-wrought play is an intricate machine that will be used by directors, actors, designers, and other creators to bring a fully staged, real-time performance into the world. The construction and maintenance of that machine is the playwright’s job, and it requires an array of complex, interconnected skills and techniques. Enter Justin Maxwell and The Playwright’s Toolbox, a stimulating and wide-ranging resource for both beginning and experienced dramatists. It brings together invigorating, provocative, and irreverent exercises contributed by nearly 60 leading English-language playwrights, covering all stages of the writing process. It offers an accessible roadmap for those who have never written a play before, while providing new angles and solutions for seasoned writers struggling with a particular challenge. Covered here is everything fromgenerating ideas and world-building, through dialogue and plotting, to revision and the last steps before releasing a play into the world, making this an endlessly useful guide to building better plays.
Book Synopsis A Blinded Horse Dreams of Hippocampi and Other Plays by : Justin Maxwell
Download or read book A Blinded Horse Dreams of Hippocampi and Other Plays written by Justin Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short plays are a collection of the poetic and unexpected. They include unassigned dialog and scene order determined by the spinning of a wheel. A chorus of seahorses sings, a car and a store have relationship problems, and Van Gogh meditates on his own death. Each play offers a fundamentally different moral compass to guide away from loneliness and fear. It is this compass that sets the course through this lyrical and unique collection.Included works by Justin Maxwell are: "A Blinded Horse Dreams of Hippocampi," "Inspiration Point," "I'm in Al-Qaeda: a comedy of manners," "Whatsleeves," "Old MacDonald Dirge," "~6x3=SAFETY: a comedic list poem," "My Rich Temple," "Patience on the Way to Daylight: an Ars Poetica farce," and "Exhausted Paint: the Death of Van Gogh."
Book Synopsis The Poetics of Science Fiction by : Peter Stockwell
Download or read book The Poetics of Science Fiction written by Peter Stockwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Science Fiction uniquely uses the science of linguistics to explore the literary universe of science fiction. Developing arguments about specific texts and movements throughout the twentieth-century, the book is a readable discussion of this most popular of genres. It also uses the extreme conditions offered by science fiction to develop new insights into the language of the literary context. The discussion ranges from a detailed investigation of new words and metaphors, to the exploration of new worlds, from pulp science fiction to the genre's literary masterpieces, its special effects and poetic expression. Speculations and extrapolations throughout the book engage the reader in thought-experiments and discussion points, with selected further reading making it a useful source book for classroom and seminar.
Book Synopsis The House That Will Not Stand by : Marcus Gardley
Download or read book The House That Will Not Stand written by Marcus Gardley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may be the wealthiest colored woman in New Orleans, but you built this house on sand, lies and dead bodies.New Orleans, 1836. Following an era of French colonial rule and relative racial acceptance, Louisiana's 'free people of color' are prospering. Beatrice, a free woman of colour, has become one of the city's wealthiest women through her relationship with a rich white man. However, when her lover mysteriously dies, Beatrice imposes a six-month period of mourning on herself and her three daughters. But, as the summer heat intensifies, the foundations of freedom she has built for herself and their three unwed daughters begin to crumble. Society is changing, racial divides are growing and, as the members of the household turn on each other in their fight for survival, it could cost them everything. A bewitching new drama of desire, jealousy, murder and voodoo, The House That Will Not Stand received its world premiere at Berkeley Rep, US, in January 2014, and was subsequently produced at the Tricycle Theatre, London, on 9 October 2014.This edition features an introduction by Professor Ayanna Thompson, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.
Book Synopsis On the Verge, Or, The Geography of Yearning by : Eric Overmyer
Download or read book On the Verge, Or, The Geography of Yearning written by Eric Overmyer and published by Broadway Play Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two act play set in the Victorian 19th century, first presented in 1985
Book Synopsis American Cinema/American Culture by : John Belton
Download or read book American Cinema/American Culture written by John Belton and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Cinema/American Culture looks at the interplay between American cinema and mass culture from the 1890s to 2011. It begins with an examination of the basic narrative and stylistic features of classical Hollywood cinema. It then studies the genres of silent melodrama, the musical, American comedy, the war/combat film, film noir, the western, and the horror and science fiction film, investigating the way in which movies shape and are shaped by the larger cultural concerns of the nation as a whole. The book concludes with a discussion of post World War II Hollywood, giving separate chapter coverage to the effects of the Cold War, 3D, television, the counterculture of the 1960s, directors from the film school generation, and the cultural concerns of Hollywood from the 1970s through 2011. Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses, this text provides a cultural overview of the phenomenon of the American movie-going experience. An updated study guide is also available for American Cinema/American Culture. Written by Ed Sikov, this guide introduces each topic with an explanatory overview written in more informal language, suggests screenings and readings, and offers self-tests.
Book Synopsis Selected Plays of Stan Lai by : Stan Lai
Download or read book Selected Plays of Stan Lai written by Stan Lai and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes feature works from across Lai’s career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances. Volume One contains: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land Look Who's Crosstalking Tonight The Island and the Other Shore I Me She Him Ménage à 13
Book Synopsis The Why Overhead by : Adam Szymkowicz
Download or read book The Why Overhead written by Adam Szymkowicz and published by Original Works Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "office comedy" portraying the lives and loves of workers in a customer call center.--website.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy by : Magda Romanska
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy written by Magda Romanska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent years, and it now permeates all kinds of narrative forms and structures: from opera to performance art; from dance and multimedia to filmmaking and robotics. In our global, mediated context of multinational group collaborations that dissolve traditional divisions of roles as well as unbend previously intransigent rules of time and space, the dramaturg is also the ultimate globalist: intercultural mediator, information and research manager, media content analyst, interdisciplinary negotiator, social media strategist. This collection focuses on contemporary dramaturgical practice, bringing together contributions not only from academics but also from prominent working dramaturgs. The inclusion of both means a strong level of engagement with current issues in dramaturgy, from the impact of social media to the ongoing centrality of interdisciplinary and intermedial processes. The contributions survey the field through eight main lenses: world dramaturgy and global perspective dramaturgy as function, verb and skill dramaturgical leadership and season planning production dramaturgy in translation adaptation and new play development interdisciplinary dramaturgy play analysis in postdramatic and new media dramaturgy social media and audience outreach. Magda Romanska is Visiting Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College, and Dramaturg for Boston Lyric Opera. Her books include The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012), Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology (2012), and Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2014).
Book Synopsis Foreign Shakespeare by : Dennis Kennedy
Download or read book Foreign Shakespeare written by Dennis Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection considers contemporary performance of Shakespeare's plays in non-English-speaking theatres.
Book Synopsis The Invisible Weevil by : Mary Karooro Okurut
Download or read book The Invisible Weevil written by Mary Karooro Okurut and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of the post-colonial period of Ugandan history. Spanning the decades of successive regimes of thinly disguised presidents, Opolo, Duduma, Polle and Kazi. Weaving together the strands of political and gender concerns this is humorous and somber work full of unforgettable episodes.
Download or read book Neighborhood 3 written by Jennifer Haley and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3m, 2f / Dark Comedy / Unit Set In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own. "Playing like a nifty episode of 'The Twilight Zone', the story builds to an affectingly grues
Book Synopsis Becoming a Subject by : Polymeris Voglis
Download or read book Becoming a Subject written by Polymeris Voglis and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voglis (New York U.) examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. He asks what impact an exceptional situation, such as a civil war, has on practices of punishment; how the category of political prisoners is constructed; how a social and political subject is made; and how political prisoners experienced their internment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Thinking Utopia written by Jörn Rüsen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.
Book Synopsis What is Scenography? by : Pamela Howard
Download or read book What is Scenography? written by Pamela Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Pamela Howard’s What is Scenography? expands on the author’s holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and spectators, to examine the changing nature of scenography in the twenty-first century. The book includes new investigations of recent production projects from Howard’s celebrated career, including Carmen and Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play with Music, full-colour illustrations of her recent work and updated commentary from a wide spectrum of contemporary theatre makers. This book is suitable for students in Scenography and Theatre Design courses, along with theatre professionals.
