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The House of Blue Leaves

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573610288
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The House of Blue Leaves written by John Guare and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Free Man of Color

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 0822227606
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book A Free Man of Color written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before law and order took hold, New Orleans was boisterous; before class, racial and political lines were drawn, it was a parade of beautiful women and good-looking men, flowing wine, and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is Jacques Cornet, who commands the men, seduces the women, preens like a peacock, and cuts a wide swath through the city and the province. But, it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is about to be redrawn. The Louisiana Purchase will bring American rule to New Orleans, challenging the chaotic, colorful world of Jacques Cornet and all that he represents.

Understanding John Guare

Author : William Demastes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177391
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding John Guare written by William Demastes and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of an award-winning playwright known for unconventional blending of genres John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last sixty years, is best known for such works as House of Blue Leaves, winner of an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, and four Tony Awards, and Six Degrees of Separation, recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and the Olivier Best Play Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. In Understanding John Guare, William W. Demastes provides a concise biography and analyzes the playwright's career from his earliest works produced off-off Broadway in the 1960s to his most recent Broadway play, A Free Man of Color, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Often compared to his contemporaries Sam Shepard and David Mamet, who have distinctive voices tied to their mastery of realistic, idiomatic American English, Guare has a style that is perhaps more varied, Demastes speculates, the result of his formal training in theater. After earning a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, Guare earned an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. He then polished his theater craft in New York City during the exciting and turbulent 1960s, breaking from realist conventions and creating an unlikely blend of comedy, burlesque, stand-up comedy, and absurdly incongruous plotlines. The result has been a theater of surprise that is rich in stage action and experimentally invigorating. Demastes examines Guare's tools and techniques such as mixing serious with comic, creating characters who break into song and dance, inserting stand-up comedy routines, and drawing from the most absurd incongruities of everyday life. In doing so, Guare has created plays about the best and worst of humanity, about lost souls, and about delusional ideals.

John Guare’s Theatre

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144380391X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book John Guare’s Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1960s to the present day, John Guare’s plays have ranged from one-act to cyclic, realistic to surrealistic, naturalistic to experimental, and tragic to comic dramas. This study’s approach to the cornucopia the playwright himself provided when in an interview he gave a fundamental aesthetic principle of his craft. Like a person—and Guare’s plays develop the personal as well as the artistic self—a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. The ground is traditional theatre with characters, no matter how larger than life they can be, and plot, no matter how illogical it can be. The soaring is in interrupting the action with monological narratives and musical interludes, bringing characters back from the dead, and having the action take hairpin turns into a mixture of genres and styles, modes and tones. In verbal and visual images, the flight invokes works by authors as varied as Aeschylus and Whitman, Dante and Feydeau, Verdi and Romberg. Soaring from ground to new ground, the theatre creates the transmission of the American heritage in Lake Hollywood, an idealism corrupted by a fraudulent American Dream in Lydie Breeze, and the recovery of the past in A Few Stout Individuals. As Guare said about his plays: they “interconnect.”

Landscape of the Body

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802199658
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Landscape of the Body written by John Guare and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, desire, and tabloid sensationalism converge in “this delirious heartbreaker of a comedy” by the Tony Award-winning playwright (Ben Brantley, The New York Times). Along with Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, Landscape of the Body is one of John Guare’s most celebrated plays. It tells the story of a woman’s unfulfilled life and premature death—and her reflections from the grave. Betty Yearn first came to New York City to convince her sister Rosalie to leave the gritty urban world behind and come home to bucolic Maine. But when Rosalie dies in a freak bicycle accident, Betty returns to ease into her sister’s previous persona—moving into her apartment, even taking over her job—as Rosalie watches from the beyond. Then Betty’s fortunes take a jarring turn. After losing her teenage son to murder, she finds herself the primary suspect in the crime. After all, death does seem to have a way of following in her trail. In what Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press called “his most surreal and haunting play,” John Guare brilliantly moves back and forth in time and space to create an affecting study of the American dream gone awry.

Lydie Breeze

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822218159
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)

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Book Synopsis Lydie Breeze by : John Guare

Download or read book Lydie Breeze written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: PART ONE: BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY. The play begins on a deserted Nantucket beach in 1875 where the young Joshua Hickman awaits the return of his wife, Lydie, who has been off-island on a nursing assignment. She is furious that he has let he

Marco Polo Sings a Solo

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822207337
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Marco Polo Sings a Solo by : John Guare

Download or read book Marco Polo Sings a Solo written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The time is 1999, the place an island off the coast of Norway. Stony McBride, a young movie director and adopted son of an aging Hollywood star, is writing a film about Marco Polo, in which, it is hoped, his father will make a comeback.

Chaucer in Rome

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822218401
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer in Rome written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the Holy Year of 2000 in Rome, Matt has learned that his painting has given him a curable form of cancer. In return for survival, he must abandon paint for a new artistic medium. Ultimately he chooses to dress in religious garb, video

A Few Stout Individuals

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802140029
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Few Stout Individuals written by John Guare and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination. In a Fifth Avenue brownstone in 1880s New York, Ulysses S. Grant is penniless, dying of throat cancer, and attempting to finish his memoirs while he's cajoled and pestered by everyone from his wife and children to his publisher Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and, via his drugged hallucinations, the emperor of Japan. Although the memoirs are eventually completed, the audience is left questioning their accuracy and, ultimately, the authenticity of history itself.

Muzeeka

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822207962
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Muzeeka written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As the New York Times outlines, It is done almost as a comedy, yet it isn't quite. Jack Argue is the 'hero,' the middle-class man from Connecticut who works for Muzeeka, a piped-music company that inflicts its bland tunes on all America. He is the man who has made it, who tries to assuage his conscience through hypocritical verbiage. There is a series of episodes-Argue chanting a hymn to a penny, Argue loving his wife, Argue loving a prostitute, Argue fighting in Vietnam. If he could have been wherever he chose to be, he says, he would have chosen to be an Etruscan, one of those ancient people who came and went 'a million years ago,' 'a whole civilization danced out of the earth.' Mr. Guare has written with thought, craftsmanship and beauty. His allusions are poetic-the traffic lights, for instance, that make the streets go from grass to blood.

The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome

Author : John Guare
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468307827
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome written by John Guare and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an American playwright who “is in a class by himself,” two acclaimed plays linked by a character who comes of age in the sixties. (The New York Times) In John Guare’s classic play The House of Blue Leaves, winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the Pope as he passes his house. In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. With his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written two scathingly funny satires on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art. Praise for The House of Blue Leaves: “Splendid . . . a joyful affirmation of life and of John Guare’s artistry.” —The New York Times “A woozy, fragile, hilarious heartbreaker . . . the writing is lush with sad, ironic wisdom about fame, love, and deluded values.” —USA Today Praise for Chaucer in Rome: “Guare makes us become voyeurs even as we scorn voyeurism—thus offering a titillating, troubling commentary on life.” —USA Today “Guare’s most disciplined, merciless yet lovable work since Six Degrees of Separation and maybe his best yet.” —New York Newsday

Bosoms and Neglect

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822217282
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Bosoms and Neglect written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Scooper, a successful but emotionally insecure man edging reluctantly into his forties, discovers that his aged, blind mother, Henny, has been hiding the fact that she is suffering from cancer. With some difficulty he persuades her to undergo s

The Black Comedy of John Guare

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137637
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)

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Book Synopsis The Black Comedy of John Guare by : Gene A. Plunka

Download or read book The Black Comedy of John Guare written by Gene A. Plunka and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first full-length study of Guare's theater, will make his plays more accessible through an examination of the often unnerving type of black comedy that makes his plays work.".

Sweet Smell of Success

Author : Marvin Hamlisch
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573633560
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Smell of Success written by Marvin Hamlisch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's New York, 1952. Welcome to Broadway, the glamour and power capital of the universe. J.J. Hunsecker rules it all with his daily gossip column in the New York Globe, syndicated to sixty million readers across America. J.J. has the goods on everyone, from the president to the latest starlet. And everyone feeds J.J. scandal, from J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joe McCarthy down to a battalion of hungry press agents who attach their news to a client that J.J. might plug. When a young press agent, S

John Guare

Author : Jane K. Curry
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Guare written by Jane K. Curry and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his plays Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare is a major figure in the contemporary American theater. Other notable works by Guare include Bosoms and Neglect, Landscape of the Body, and the Lydie Breeze series. His career began with off-off-Broadway experimentation in the sixties and continues through the present. In that time Guare has created many imaginative, eccentric plays that reflect the chaos, violence, and loneliness of life in our time. He frequently combines outrageous farce with painfully serious subject matter. This sourcebook is both a convenient reference and a resource for further investigation of Guare's works. The volume chronicles his achievements with a chronology and biographical essay. It also includes summaries of his published and unpublished plays, overviews of the critical reception of each work, production credits, a primary bibliography of dramatic and nondramatic writings, and extensive annotated bibliographies of reviews and other secondary material.

Six Degrees of Separation

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679734813
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Six Degrees of Separation written by John Guare and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-11-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart. Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie.

Kissing Sweet, and A Day for Surprises

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822202769
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Kissing Sweet, and A Day for Surprises written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1971 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: KISSING SWEET. First presented on New York's Channel 13 (Educational Television) as part of FOUL!, a special program on pollution and conservation, this madcap spoof of TV advertising has been specially adapted and expanded by the auth