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Book Synopsis The Best American Short Plays, 2015-2016 by : William W. Demastes
Download or read book The Best American Short Plays, 2015-2016 written by William W. Demastes and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). Now in its seventh decade, the annals of The Best American Short Plays series now boasts hundreds of groundbreaking one-acts and an alumni list the likes of which other anthologies can only dream. From luminaries like Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee to the brightest stars of today, such as Murray Schisgal, James Armstrong, Billy Aronson, Jules Tasca, Neil LaBute, and Daniel Gallant, TBASP established itself as the standard bearer for its genre by presenting materials that offer a forthright annual reading of our nation's pulse. If The Best American Short Plays 2015-2016 , co-edited by William Demastes and John Patrick Bray, proves as portentous as its forebears, suffice it to say that our hearts are pounding. In this volume, DeMastes and Bray have assembled a collection of plays centered on the notion of "Starting Over." Following the 2016 election cycle, which turned centuries-old political mores and traditions on their heads, many Americans especially those in the theatre community feel as though the incoming presidential administration and congress will require our nation to start anew. The feeling that we are beginning again (for better or for worse) has crept into the consciousness of this year's crop of writers. These playwrights individually and collectively demonstrate the vitality and necessity of the theatre as a space where we can ask questions about character and identity on both personal and national scales. Although answers aren't easily forthcoming, the ensuing silences provides a vacuum of sorts an ideal but ephemeral space where any citizen, regardless of persuasion or belief, can stop, sit, and think.
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019 by : John Patrick Bray
Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019 written by John Patrick Bray and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant collection of the best one-act plays in American theater in 2018-2019, the styles and approaches are as varied and rich--and troubled, compelling, and human--as American life itself.
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.
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Plays 2018–2019 by : John Patrick Bray
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.
Book Synopsis New Voices Playwrights Theatre Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2016 by : John Bolen
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.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage's "Sweat" by : Gale, Cengage
Download or read book A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage's "Sweat" written by Gale, Cengage and published by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage's "Sweat", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
Book Synopsis New Voices Playwrights Annual Anthology of Short Plays 2017 by : John Bolen
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 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth annual anthology of short plays from New Voices Playwrights Theatre and Workshop.
Book Synopsis The Director as Collaborator by : Robert Knopf
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
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Stories 2015 by : T. Coraghessan Boyle
Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2015 written by T. Coraghessan Boyle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 417 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.
Book Synopsis New Voices Holiday Plays 2018 by : John Bolen
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.
Book Synopsis New Voices Playwrights Theatre Holiday Plays 2017 by : John Bolen
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.
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.
Download or read book Albertine written by Laurence Klavan and published by Leamington Books. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When life is no longer short, what will we long for? In the near-future, those who can afford it will be genetically engineered to age slower and live longer, to have many lives within one life. Now the privileged and galvanic Albertine is at yet another crossroads in her seemingly endless time on Earth, having met one more person with whom she has fallen passionately and heedlessly in love. Albertine's friend is her medician, "half-doctor, half-magician," who administers her longevity treatments and narrates the story. Albertine will beg him to stop the pain of loving so many. Meanwhile, the government decides to take drastic measures to pare the vast amounts of rich people who keep existing, gobbling resources. Albertine is a story about how technology might alter how we live and die, have sex, kill, earn, achieve, parent, and grow up. It's also a timeless novella about the transitions all lovers make and—if they're lucky—survive.
Book Synopsis The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 by : Amy Stewart
Download or read book The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 written by Amy Stewart and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology collects some of the year’s best science and nature writing—from climate change to killer beetles, an exposé of nail salons, and more. As guest editor Amy Stewart says in her introduction, “science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten…But at the end of the day, we’re all writers. We’re just like novelists, memoirists, and poets. We’re entertainers.” The writers in this anthology pull off that wonderful feat of turning hard research into page-turning narrative. From a Pulitzer Prize–winning essay on the earthquake that could decimate the Pacific Northwest to the astonishing work of investigative journalism that transformed the nail salon industry, this is a collection of hard-hitting and beautifully composed writing on the wonders, dangers, and oddities of scientific innovation and our natural world. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 includes Kathryn Schulz, Sarah Maslin Nir, Charles C. Mann, Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gretel Ehrlich, and others.
Book Synopsis Let's Hear Their Voices by : Iraida H. López
Download or read book Let's Hear Their Voices written by Iraida H. López and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Hear Their Voices brings together works by ten distinguished and emerging Cuban American writers of the "second generation"—writers who were born between 1960 and the mid-1980s in the United States to Cuban parents or have a mixed ethnic background. Called "ABCs" (American-Born Cubans) or "AmeriCubans," these writers experiment with different formal approaches and lace their work with Cuban Spanish to give voice to hybrid identities and cultural legacies within the contemporary multicultural United States. An introduction by Iraida H. López identifies key tropes in their poetry, prose, and drama, and provides an overview of Cuban American literature since the 1960s. With both original and previously published pieces by award-winning authors—including President Obama's Second Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco—the volume makes a welcome contribution to the fields of Latinx and American literature, as well as critical discussions across disciplines about the intersections of latinidad with race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Stories 2016 by : Junot Díaz
Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2016 written by Junot Díaz and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year's The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.
Book Synopsis Best American Poetry 2016 by : David Lehman
Download or read book Best American Poetry 2016 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects poems chosen by editor Edward Hirsch as the best of 2016, featuring poets such as Rick Barot, Emily Fragos, Philip Levine, and Adrienne Su.
