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The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1495035417
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 by : William W. Demastes

Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). For more than 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others who have gone on to establish award-winning careers. The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 takes a look at our changing times. "Uncertain" seems to be the watchword of today's world, full of surprises, shocks, and even a few delights. Uncertainty brings with it fear and insecurity, as well as nostalgic longing for the good old days, but for some, uncertainty means opportunity and along with it the prospect of change for the better. This volume explores various experiences of uncertainty and includes a series of nine plays gathered by Daniel Gallant, entitled Nine Signs of the Times , as well as short plays by Neil LaBute, John Guare, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Daniel F. Levin, Quincy Long, Halley Feiffer, Caridad Svich, and Clay McLeod Chapman. This collection will be complemented by a range of plays from around the country by playwrights likewise observing and digesting the signs of the times. Together the plays of this volume work as a time capsule, capturing the fears and longings of a world on the verge and in the midst of big changes, hopefully for the better but quite possibly for the worse.

The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1480397210
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013 written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their lives and surroundings from sunup to sundown, sundown to sunrise. We learn to follow rules of proper behavior and more than happily issue out advice to our friends who just can't get a handle on themselves. Restraint and order, after all, are the cornerstones of human society and civilization. The problem is that human nature bucks and bridles at every attempt to socialize and civilize. Shakespeare got it right when he penned the observation, "The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree." In those few words he has managed to capture precisely why it is so difficult to be human; if it were okay simply to let our hot tempers prevail, life would be so much easier. But cold decrees are what prevent us from self-destruction, and so we endure the struggle.

Action!

Author : Robert Benedetti
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478650265
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Action! written by Robert Benedetti and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple award-winning producer and leading teacher of acting Robert Benedetti offers a no-nonsense, detailed, and clearly structured approach to the fundamentals of acting for the camera. Benedetti uses the same approach he has employed in writing and teaching for over fifty years — defining underlying principles, presenting them in a logically sequential program of development, and providing experiential exercises to help future, as well as experienced, actors shine in film and television.

Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1495028887
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three by : William W. Demastes

Download or read book Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Really? Words can break spirits, destroy confidence. They can also build hope and incite great acts of heroism. Playwrights know this, and so do theater audiences. Otherwise, why go? Words matter and carry clout every bit as dangerous as a hammer or crowbar. This, too, playwrights know. The monologues in this volume are full of such blows, striking at our imaginations and our memories, generating responses such as joyful laughter or chilling surprise. Others squeeze us into worlds we've never experienced, or perhaps experienced at the furthest edges of memory and recollection. Still others may help us alter the way we see certain things, people, or beliefs. Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three is a collection of monologues drawn from the popular Best American Short Plays series, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today. Long or short, serious or not, excerpts or entireties, this collection abounds in speech acts that may trigger physical reactions and almost certainly will transform an attitude or two, drawing out lost memories, creating new ones, and definitely entertaining, engaging, amusing us all along the way.

New Voices Playwrights Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2017

Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387207180
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book New Voices Playwrights Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2017 written by John Bolen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth annual anthology of short plays from the New Voices Playwrights Theatre and Workshop.

New Voices Playwrights Theatre Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2016

Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365323250
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book New Voices Playwrights Theatre Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2016 written by John Bolen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third annual anthology of short plays from the playwrights of New Voices Playwrights Theatre. Includes plays by Austin Peay, John Franceschini, John Lane, Michael Buss, John Bolen, Anne V. Grob, Linda Whitmore, David Rusiecki, Mark Bowen, Pattric Walker and Lynne Bolen.

New Voices Playwrights Theatre Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2015

Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329518071
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis New Voices Playwrights Theatre Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2015 by : John Bolen

Download or read book New Voices Playwrights Theatre Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2015 written by John Bolen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual anthology of short plays by members of the New Voices Playwrights for the year 2015. Includes plays by John Bolen, Lynne Bolen, Mark Bowen, Michael C. Buss, Frank Farmer, John Franceschini, Anne V. Grob, John Lane, Austin Peay, David Rusiecki, Pattric Walker, and Linda Whitmore.

New Voices Holiday Plays 2018

Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359150152
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book New Voices Holiday Plays 2018 written by John Bolen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2018 anthology of holiday plays from the New Voices Playwrights Theatre.

The Director as Collaborator

Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317326571
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Director as Collaborator written by Robert Knopf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theater productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers, stage managers, and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theater, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises. New to the second edition: updated interviews, exercises, forms, and appendices new chapter on technology including digital research, previsualization and drafting programs, and web-sharing sites new chapter on devised and ensemble-based works new chapter on immersive theater, including material and exercises on environmental staging and audience–performer interaction

New Voices Playwrights Theatre Holiday Plays 2017

Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387341510
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book New Voices Playwrights Theatre Holiday Plays 2017 written by John Bolen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first New Voices Playwrights Theatre anthology of holiday themed plays.

Geometry of Grief

Author : Michael Frame
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826481
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Geometry of Grief written by Michael Frame and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This engaging short book is both a mathematician's reflections on grief and a mathematically-informed theory of grieving. Michael Frame retired in 2016 as a professor of mathematics at Yale University, where students fought for a place in his course on fractal geometry. Students appreciated his use of accessible examples- decalcomania paintings and illustrations of cats to explain mathematical concepts-and stories of his work and friendship with the founder of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot. In this book, he continues his work to make mathematics accessible, using his experiences with grief to give uninitiated readers insights into advanced topics in geometry. The inability to repeat an "aha moment", when you first learn something, is one type of grief that Frame examines. He connects this irreversible loss of perspective to more consequential grief-loss of a career or of a loved one-and explains ways he has thought mathematically about grieving and coping with grief. Frame is an authentic and sympathetic voice. He retired after discovering that he had an inoperable brain tumor and feeling the effects of his cancer on his teaching career. His connections and insights make this a timely and moving book in our time of personal and collective grief"--

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.

New Voices Anthology of Short Plays 2018

Author : John Bolen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387938150
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book New Voices Anthology of Short Plays 2018 written by John Bolen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1480386138
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays written by William W. Demastes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEST MONOLOGUES FROM BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS VOLUME 1

The Best American Short Stories 2014

Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547819226
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2014 written by Jennifer Egan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

The Best American Short Plays 2018–2019

Author : John Patrick Bray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493055933
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2018–2019 written by John Patrick Bray and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Paula Vogel once said that theater helps us learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with each other. Revolving around the theme of "this is who we are," the one-act plays in this latest edition of the Best American Short Plays series (now in its ninth decade) explore the thoughtful ways in which playwrights are wrestling to make sense of our world today. The selected plays reflect how we perform our identities (private and public) and how we negotiate who we are with others who often have different perspectives, perspectives that make us uncomfortable. The theme of this collection is topical and apt—as our country continues to shore up its borders along party lines, from pride parades to strict abortion laws, from inclusivity in education curricula to children in detention centers at the US–Mexico border. Each of the plays presents a clear reflection of who we are (and who we aspire to be) as individuals and as a nation. The styles of the plays also reflect different approaches to storytelling: two characters, four characters, a single setting, multiple settings, or a utopian "nowhere." The rich and compelling characters try to work out their differences and overcome obstacles using humor and a sense of magic that comes with simple moments of human connection. This is who we are: people who are grappling with the desire to be understood, the hope to be loved and accepted, and to allow that hope to shape a larger sense of who we could be if we continue to work and listen.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195092622
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Short Stories written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.