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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.".
Download or read book John Guare written by Jane K. Curry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 310 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 It also includes summaries of his published and unpublished plays, overviews of the critical reception of each work, production credits, a primary bibliography of dramatic and nondramatic writings, and extensive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.
Book Synopsis Off-centre Stages by : Jinnie Schiele
Download or read book Off-centre Stages written by Jinnie Schiele and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relating the histories of two important London fringe theaters--the Round House and the Open Space--with the use of rare archives, this text offers a detailed look at these pioneering companies and answers key questions about performance space and its influence on the types of productions successfully presented. The work of maverick American playwright and director Charles Marowitz, who founded the Open Space Theater, is fully detailed, as is that of political playwright Arnold Wesker, who founded the Round House. Also explored is the role Thelma Holt played in the development of both theaters. Rare photographs of productions and a complete list of plays and events staged at the two venues are included.
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.
Book Synopsis Vietnam Protest Theatre by : Nora M. Alter
Download or read book Vietnam Protest Theatre written by Nora M. Alter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a thoughtful and important treatment of the international tensions of the period as they were embodied in theatre practice. It is the only book of its kind on the subject, and a valuable source of production information." -- Theatre Journal "... an excellent discussion of the aesthetics of theater." -- Choice The escalation of the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s unleashed worldwide protest. Playwrights grappled with the complexities of post-imperialist politics and with the problems of creating effective political theatre in the television age. The ephemeral theatre these writers created, today little-known and rarely studied, provides an important window on a complex moment in culture and history.
Book Synopsis Understanding John Guare by : William Demastes
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.
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Dramatists by : James Vinson
Download or read book Contemporary Dramatists written by James Vinson and published by London : St. James Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Playwrights Since 1945 by : Philip Kolin
Download or read book American Playwrights Since 1945 written by Philip Kolin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-01-23 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the state of research on and history of performances of 40 American playwrights, including major mainstream, ethnic, and regional playwrights. The essays list their published and unpublished plays, as well as their other works; document the performances; identify bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, and analyses of the plays; and discuss the critical reception. The volume deals with production histories, covering critics, actors, directors, and theater companies that have contributed as much to theater as the playwrights themselves. It also discusses original screenplays and identifies writing on younger playwrights on whom research has just begun. ISBN 0-313-25543-1: $66.00 (For use only in the library).
Book Synopsis Contemporary American Dramatists by : Kathryn Ann Berney
Download or read book Contemporary American Dramatists written by Kathryn Ann Berney and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work profiles nearly 200 U.S. playwrights, both living and deceased, and is part of St. James Press' Contemporary Literature Series. "Contemporary American Dramatists" provides invaluable critical, biographical and bibliographical information on nearly 200 of the most important American dramatists since the end of World War II.
Book Synopsis American Playwrights, a Critical Survey by : Bonnie Marranca
Download or read book American Playwrights, a Critical Survey written by Bonnie Marranca and published by New York : Drama Book Specialists. This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of a planned two-volume introduction to contemporary American dramatists, this selection of 18 represents the off-Broadway movement of the last two decades. Each general introduction to an author's work includes full specifics on theatrical techniques, analysis of individual plays and a final assessment of the author's creative development and place in American drama. Also traces the history of the New York experimental theater companies where several of these playwrights' careers developed: Langford Wilson in the Circle Repertory Company; Paul Foster in La Mama Experimental Theater; and Jean-Claude Van Itallie and Megan Terry in the Open Theater.
Download or read book Contemporary Dramatists written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Other Side of the Century II by : Douglas Messerli
Download or read book From the Other Side of the Century II written by Douglas Messerli and published by Sun & Moon Classics (Paperback. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new anthology of American drama from 1960-1995.
Download or read book Theatre Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Dictionary of Theatre: Playwrights by : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Download or read book International Dictionary of Theatre: Playwrights written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Chicago : St. James Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of playwrights which contains 485 entries, each of which includes biographical information on the playwright, complete lists of published works (with dates of performance) and a bibliography of critical studies on the playwright.
Book Synopsis Production Promptbook for John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves by : Paul Anthony Calenberg
Download or read book Production Promptbook for John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves written by Paul Anthony Calenberg and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Drama Scholars' Index to Plays and Filmscripts by : Gordon Samples
Download or read book The Drama Scholars' Index to Plays and Filmscripts written by Gordon Samples and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press 1974-1986. This book was released on 1974 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...The book can be a goldmine. --James Leverett, Theatre Communications ...With this second volume, the Drama Scholars' Index's indispensability is greatly increased. --Richard J. Kelly, ARBA
Book Synopsis Critical Survey of Drama: Maria Irene Fornes - Tina Howe by : Carl Edmund Rollyson
Download or read book Critical Survey of Drama: Maria Irene Fornes - Tina Howe written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986. This new 8 vol. set contains 602 essays, of which 538 discuss individual dramatists and 64 cover broad overview topics. The dramatist profiles contain more than 310 photographs and drawings.
