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Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays

Author : Eric Lane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679772820
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays written by Eric Lane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ten-minute play is a streak of theatrical lightning. It doesn't last long, but its power can stand your hair on end. This splendid anthology contains enough wattage to light up a small city. For in its pages, thirty-two of our finest playwrights hone their skills on a form that has been called the haiku of the American stage. The plays that Nina Shengold and Eric Lane have collected in this volume range from monologues to an eight-character farce. Eminently producible, ideally suited for the classroom and audition, Take Ten is a marvelous resource for teachers and students of drama, as well as a stimulating read for lovers of the theatre. Contributors include: John Augustine, Cathy Celesia, Laura Cunningham, Joe Pintauro, Mary Sue Price, Megan Terry, Jose Rivera, Romulus Linney, David Mamet, Jane Martin, David Ives, and many others.

The Best 10-minute Plays for Three Or More Actors, 2005

Author : D. L. Lepidus
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Best 10-minute Plays for Three Or More Actors, 2005 written by D. L. Lepidus and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected from theaters across America, this new ten-minute collection of 23 plays reveals the power and pleasures of this tightly knit form. Plays for 3 Actors:Shot Americans (3W) by Kayla CaganLarry Gets the Call (2W, 1M) by Matt CasarinoShades (1W, 2M) by Mark Harvey LevineEvery Man (2W, 1M) by Michael NiedermanMolly Whuppie (2W, 1M) by Don NigroIt's Called Development (3W) by Anne PhelanAn Ongoing Examination of the True Meaning of Life (2W, 1M or 1W, 2M) by S. W. SenekPistachio Stories (2W, 1M) by Laura ShamasThe Searcher (1W, 2M) by Frederick StroppelMore (1W, 2M) by Jeff TabnickWeird Water (1W, 2M) by Robert Lewis VaughanDead Boy (2W, 1M) by Craig WrightPlays for 4 Actors:Vinny's Vision (4M) by Jim GordonBetting the Karmic House (1W, 3M or 2W, 2M) by Bill JohnsonInfant Morality (3W, 1M) by Craig PospisilHow to Speak Man (4M) by Sharyn RothsteinRemind Me Again (3W, 1M) by Sharyn RothsteinHell Hath Three Furies (3W, 1M) by Aoise StratfordA Moment of Your Undivided Attention (3W, 1M) by Alina TrowbridgePlays for 5 Actors:Tina at the Times or Below the Fold (2W, 3M) by Wendy MacLeodPlays for 6 or More ActorsToys in Babeland (1W, 8M) by Delilah GomezAt the time (5W, 3M) by Winter MillerSmall World (3W, 3M) by Tracey Scott WilsonD. L. LEPIDUS is a freelance critic and editor who has covered the New York theater scene for more than twenty-five years. Since 1993, his work has appeared in theater columns for Chelsea Clinton News and the Westsider.

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2013

Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575258690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2013 written by Lawrence Harbison and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume you'll find fifty terrific new 10-minute plays Plays for Two Actors: Absent Grace (Claudia Barnett) Animal/Animal (Libby Emmons) Anniversary Season (Jenny Lyn Bader) Aposiopesis (John McEneny) Black Coffee (Deanna Alisa Ableser) Customer Service (Philip Hall) Draw a Lion (Dan O'Neill) Fair Shake (Jeffrey Gold) Give and Take (Bara Swain) Green Sound (John Patrick Bray) In Memory of Calvinball (Erin Moughon) Intentional Deception (Greg Freier) Lack of Moisture (Debbie Lamedman) Magic 8 Ball (Kimberly Pau) The Memory Box (Chris Shaw Swanson) Minutiae (Barry Eitel) Missed Connections (Marj O'Neill Butler) The Ninth Circus of Hell (C.J. Ehrlich) Numbers (Gregg Kreutz) Perspective (James McLindon) Reinventing the Wheel (Megan Lohne) She's Bound to Know (Michael Weems) This Flight Tonight (Wendy MacLeod) Unintelligent Life (John McKinney) Your Kiss is on My List (Christopher Lockheardt Plays for Three or More Actors: All My Problems (Laurie Graff) Battle Tactics (Andy Haynes) Black and White (Donna Hoke) The Date (Scene) (Mike Salomon) Captain Rockets Versus the Intergalactic Brain-Eaters (Don Nigro) The Corporate Ladder (Lisa Soland) Erosion (Scott McCrea) He's Really a Good Guy (Rory Leahy) Hurt (Saviana Stanescu) Mendacity of The Hear of Elephants in the Room (Carlos Murillo) Museum Place @2 (William Fowkes) Organic Seed (Patrick Gabridge) Pass Go: A Monopoly Play (Brian James Polak) Pocket Universe (Duncan Pflaster) The Promise (Jeffrey Strausser) Rat-Tat-Tat (David Guaspari) The Slasher's Lament (Michael Puzzo) A Small Fishing Nation Wedged Between Estonia and Latvia (Andrew Black) Standing Room Only (Aren Haun) Switzerland (Mayank Keshaviah) True Enough (Sonya Sobieski) Twenty-Three Hundred (Mark Rigney) What are You Going to Be? (Steven Korbar) Where were You When I Was Coming? (C.S. Hanson) Zombie Love (Earl T. Roske)

The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020

Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493053280
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 written by Lawrence Harbison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. Selections include: Beta Testing by Jenny Lyn Bader The Fourteenth Annual Foot Puppet Festival by Holly Hepp-Galvan Glasstown by Don Nigro Incident on the Golden Gate Bridge by David MacGregor Oxycontin Follies by Steve Gold Two Artists Trying to Pay Their Bill by Lucy Wang The Scottish Loo by J. Thalia Cunningham

Take Ten II

Author : Eric Lane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307491595
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Take Ten II written by Eric Lane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzlingly diverse anthology of thirty-five short plays spanning the theatrical spectrum. A ten-minute play is a blaze of theatrical energy. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking collection Take Ten, editors Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have put together a veritable bonfire of talent. Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays provides a fast-track tour of the current theatrical landscape, from the slapstick ingenuity of David Ives’ Arabian Nights to the searing tension of Diana Son’s 9/11 drama The Moon, Please, to Susan Miller’s luminous fable The Grand Design. This remarkably diverse anthology includes thirty-five short plays by such major American playwrights as Christopher Durang, Warren Leight, Romulus Linney and Donald Margulies, alongside a host of exciting new voices. Actors, directors, producers and teachers will find Take Ten II an invaluable source of meaty roles for people of every age, ethnicity and gender; lovers of theatre will find it a richly satisfying read. These deceptively short plays throb with life in all its variety: harrowing, hilarious, and breathtakingly vital. Playwrights included: Taylor Mac Bowyer Laura Shaine Cunningham Anthony David Steven Dietz Christopher Durang Linda Eisenstein Simon Fill Craig Fols Sigrid Heath David Ives Caleen Sinnette Jennings Honour Kane Eric Lane Edward Bok Lee Warren Leight Romulus Linney Donald Margulies Susan Miller Chiori Miyagawa Itamar Moses Sean O'Connor Mark O'Donnell Dael Orlandersmith Rich Orloff Joe Pintauro Craig Pospisil Toni Press-Coffman Claire Reeve Elaine Romero Susan Sandler Nina Shengold Diana Son Alison Weiss Mary Louise Wilson Garth Wingfield Alexander Woo From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2015

Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575258980
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2015 written by Lawrence Harbison and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume you will find fifty terrific new ten-minute plays all successfully produced during the 2014-2015 theatrical season. They are written in a variety of styles. Some realistic plays, some are not, some comic, some are dramatic. -- Amazon.com.

A More Perfect Ten

Author : Gary Garrison
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585104574
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book A More Perfect Ten written by Gary Garrison and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A More Perfect Ten is a revision of Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play, and it is now the most authoritative book on this emerging play form. The 10-minute play has become a regular feature of theatre companies and festivals from coast to coast, and Garrison has distilled the advice of many of those people who had been instrumental in promoting the ten minute play for the last few years. Replete with advice and tips on creating the successful 10-minute play, and cautions for avoiding the pitfalls, this new edition also includes addresses for the biggest and most important 10-minute festival opportunities, new sample 10-minute plays and questions for thought and discussion, and sample layout templates for laying out the play for submission. The savvy playwright at any level of skill can use this little book to great advantage. Plus Gary Garrison is warm, funny, irreverent, and essential.

The Best 10-minute Plays, 2012

Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9781575257938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Best 10-minute Plays, 2012 written by Lawrence Harbison and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing the 10-Minute Play

Author : Glenn Alterman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0879108800
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Writing the 10-Minute Play written by Glenn Alterman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback Original

The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019

Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN 13 : 9781493053179
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019 written by Lawrence Harbison and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2019 presents approximately thirty of the most original and fresh ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. Selections include: -Wild Birds by Nicole Pandolfo -The Pole at the Center by C. S. Hanson -Persephone by Jennifer O'Grady -Hercules Didn't Wade in the Water by Michael A. Jones -Avalanche by Rita Anderson -Brickwork by K. L. Snodgrass -Death Defying by Stephen Kaplan -Moths by Don Nigro

Thirty Ten-minute Plays for 4, 5, and 6 Actors from Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten-Minute Play Contest

Author : Michael Bigelow Dixon
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Thirty Ten-minute Plays for 4, 5, and 6 Actors from Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten-Minute Play Contest written by Michael Bigelow Dixon and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From actors theatre of Louisville's National ten-minute play contest.

The Director as Collaborator

Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317326563
Total Pages : 234 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 234 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

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2018

Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575259246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2018 written by Lawrence Harbison and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, you will find fifty terrific new ten-minute plays from the 2017-2018 theatrical season. They are written in a variety of styles, some are realistic plays; some are not. Some are comic, some dramatic. The ten-minute play form lends itself well to experimentation in style. A playwright can have fun with a device which couldn¿t be sustained was well in a longer play. Several of these plays employ such a device. 2 Actors ¿ After You (Blessing), The Chip (Higgins), Comfort Zone (Rigney), Co-Workers (Ehrlich), The 5564 to Toronto (Howes), Ful Nabit (Cunningham), Gorilla Gorilla (Harris), Holy Toledo! (Jackson), I Got You Babe (Mariani), The Incompleteness Theorem (Hutton), Italian Now (Donaghy), The Jane Austen Expressway (Hanson), Just One of Those Things (Brody), Labrats (Lopez), A Limbo Large and Broad (Galvan), Melto Man and Lady Mantis (Pfeffinger), Memory Card (Schindewolf), Point of Intersection (Hindman), Rusalka (Nigro), Spark (Ehrlich), Time and Tony Oliva (Haworth), Tim Kaine Sits in Front of a Mirror and Studies his Face (Barsky), The Trapped Language of Love (Colfer), Tweak Me Now or Never (Hanson), Virtuous Reality (Gerardo), 3 Actors or More ¿ Art Strike (Bolcik), Breakout (Moran), Cubs Win! (Smith), English Only (Stubbles), Ethnically Ambiguous (Latham), Fightbook (McLindon), Flower Child in Blue (Vetere), For Mr. Cuddles (Moughon), Gold Standard (Bruna), Home Invasion (Knight), Just Desserts (MacGregor), Lorax (Perrone), Men on the Moon (Folwell), New York City Girls Will Kill You (Techler), No Time for Baby (Haar), One Another (Turner/Tuttle), Protocol (Foley), Silo #3 (McCamy), Some People Say (Saunders), That Night ¿Butcher¿ Pete Wilcox Go Knocked Out by Jesse ¿The Cannon¿ Tesori (Cook, The Night of All Nights (Heilveil), This Quintessence of Dust (Hinkle), Three Anne Franks (Macdonald), A Visit to the Rust Belt (Bader), Zombies R Us (MacCallum)

2010 the Best 10-minute Plays

Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 : 9781575257723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book 2010 the Best 10-minute Plays written by Lawrence Harbison and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Again this year, Smith and Kraus combined its two annual ten-minute play books into this one volume, divided into two sections: Plays for Two Actors and Plays for Three or More Actors. Now, you can get the best ten-minute plays produced during the 2009-2010 theatrical season all in one book!In this volume you will find a plethora of ten-minute plays, culled from hundreds received. All have been produced successfully. Some have even won awards. These plays are written in a wide variety of styles. Some are realistic, some are not. Some are comic (laughs); some are dramatic (no laughs).There are a few plays in this book by playwrights who are fairly well-known, such as Don Nigro, Carson Kreitzer, Elaine Romero, Bridgette A. Wimberly, Richard Vetere and P. J. Gibson; but most are by terrific new writers you never heard of, playwrights destined without a doubt to become far better known when their full-length plays get produced by major theatres. And you read their work first here!Plays for Two ActorsPlays for One Man and One WomanGoat by Don NigroGunning for Life by William BordenHigh Speed Disconnect by Chris WidneyJesse by P. J. GibsonLabor Day Weekend by Jon SpanoLadybug Gonna Getcha by Cara Lee CorthronA Modest Proposal by Steve KoppmanMrs. Jansen Isn''t Here Now by Steven KorbarPublic Relations by Andrew BissRainbow Sprinkles by Stacey LaneThe Rental by Mark Harvey LevineRevolutions by Elaine RomeroRightsized by Kate McCamySelf Phone by Brendon EtterSmile by Nina MansfieldSteve by Liz BartucciUse Unknown by Ali WaltonWish You Were Here by Claudia HaasPlays for Two WomenHedge by Jerrod BogardParental Consent by S. D. GraubertThe Pickle Lady by Sharyn RothsteinRally by Bridgette A. WimberlySaguaro by Philip DawkinsThe Shore by Daniel TalbottWorse Things by Mona MansourPlays for Two MenCanadian Tuxedo by Nicole PanolfoHis Daddy by Cori ThomasRon Swoboda''s Wish by Anna ZieglerPlays for Three or More ActorsThe Attractive Women on the Train (2M 2F) by P. Seth BauerThe Bedmaker''s Revenge (1M 2F) by Bekah BrunstetterBollywood (2 M 2F) by R. D. MurphyCarwash; or In This Town, You Are What You Drive (2M 2F) by Stephanie HutchinsonThe Cooking King (2M 1F) by Sharon E. CooperDriving Green (2M 1F) by Martin BlankThe End of a Perfect Game (4M) by Jay RehakFor Our Mothers and Fathers (3F) by Crystal SkillmanThe Godot Variations (3M or more) by Meron LangsnerHands of Horror (2M 1F) by Ann Marie HealyHis Last Fight (2M 1F) by Jacqueline GoldfingerL. A. 8 AM (1M 1F, + 2 M or F) by Mark Harvey LevineLet''s Not Talk About Men (2M 6F) by Carla CantrelleMeatball Hero (2M 1F) by Richard VetereOdysseus Swims for It (1M 2F) by Joshua H. CohenOff the Map (2M 1F) by Rich OrloffParachute Silk (1M 2F) by Carson KreitzerPost Wave Spectacular (4F) by Diana GrisantiPussy (2M 1F) by Laura JacqminSmall Portions (2M 1F) by Quinn D. EliSpirit Sex (2M 1F) by Desi Moreno-PensonTable for Four (2M 2F) by Steven KorbarWhack-a-Mole (1M 2F plus 4 M or F) by Beth LeinABOUT THE EDITOR For over thirty years Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisition for Samuel French, Inc., during which time his work on behalf of playwrights resulted in the first publication of such subsequent luminaries as Jane Martin, Don Nigro, Tina Howe, Theresa Rebeck, José Rivera, William Mastrosimone, Charles Fuller, and Ken Ludwig, among many others; and the acquisition of musicals such as Smoke of the Mountain, A...My Name Is Alice, Little Shop of Horrors and Three Guys Naked from the Waist Dow. He is a now a free-lance editor, primarily for Smith and Kraus, Inc., for whom he edits annual anthologies of best plays by new playwrights and women playwrights, best ten-minute plays and best monologues and scenes for men and for women. For many years he wrote a weekly column on his adventures in the theater for two Manhattan Newspapers, the Chelsea Clinton News and The Westsider. His new column, "On the Aisle with Larry", is a weekly feature at www.smithandkraus.com. He works with individual playwrights to help them develop their plays (see his website, www.playfixer.com).

Ten-minute Plays for Middle School Performers

Author : Rebecca Young
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781566081580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Ten-minute Plays for Middle School Performers written by Rebecca Young and published by Meriwether Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays in this theatre book give teenage performers the chance to reveal the unique identities and motivations of students their own age. These brief plays may be used for speech and drama classrooms, forensic competitions or variety shows. They are easily staged with no sets or costumes. Topics include: how to be popular, jealousy, shoplifting, pranks and more. Included are scripts for girls only, scripts for boys only and scripts for mixed casts. The dialogue in all the plays is believable and easy to perform.

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.

Grit

Author : Angela Duckworth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501111124
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Grit written by Angela Duckworth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People). The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance. In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. “Duckworth’s ideas about the cultivation of tenacity have clearly changed some lives for the better” (The New York Times Book Review). Among Grit’s most valuable insights: any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal; grit can be learned, regardless of IQ or circumstances; when it comes to child-rearing, neither a warm embrace nor high standards will work by themselves; how to trigger lifelong interest; the magic of the Hard Thing Rule; and so much more. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference. This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success” (The Wall Street Journal).