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The Height Of Summer New Plays From Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015 2021
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Book Synopsis The Height of Summer: New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 by : Martyna Majok
Download or read book The Height of Summer: New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 written by Martyna Majok and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 provides a sample of the dozens of plays that have been created and/or premiered at the Festival during the Artistic Directorship of Mandy Greenfield. In addition to stories that shine a light into new or underexplored corners of the human condition, these plays frequently feature complex and boundary-pushing central roles for women actors. These six plays are manifestations of living, American playwrights grappling with and breathing dramatic life into the conflicts and questions at the heart of who we were, who we are, and who we will become. These plays imagine and interrogate pieces of the human experience we are still in the midst of unpacking and understanding. Complete with introductions by each of the authors reflecting on their work, these historic, award-winning, and groundbreaking plays now live in conversation with one another in this unique collection.
Download or read book Camp Siegfried written by Bess Wohl and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm a killer I told you I told you that all along You were the dummy to believe I could ever be anything else Two teenagers fall in love on Long Island. There's fun and dancing, sports and team spirit, there's the woods and beer and physical hard work. But it's 1938, the world is on the brink of war, and their wholesome summer camp is exclusively for American youth of German descent. As their mutual attraction deepens, so they become intoxicated by the Nazi ideology that fuels the camp, an ideology that will culminate in global atrocity and genocide. Inspired by the real Camp Siegfried, Bess Wohl's play premiered at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in September 2021.
Book Synopsis Stunning and Other Plays by : David Adjmi
Download or read book Stunning and Other Plays written by David Adjmi and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nearly everything about David Adjmi’s Stunning has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue." –Time Out New York This volume of distinctive work includes Stunning, set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage bride’s world is disrupted by her intellectual African American housekeeper; Evildoers, about the collapse of two privileged couples; and Elective Affinities, a post-9/11 monologue. David Adjmi’s work has been produced at Lincoln Center Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, and the Royal Court in London. He has received numerous commissions and is the recipient of a 2009 Kesselring Fellowship and a Bush Artist Fellowship.
Book Synopsis This Bitter Earth by : Harrison David Rivers
Download or read book This Bitter Earth written by Harrison David Rivers and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate, romantic, and devastating, this gripping play about a young Black writer and his white lover, a Black Lives Matter activist, asks, "What is the real cost of standing on the sidelines?"
Download or read book American Hero written by Bess Wohl and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a toasted subs franchise in the local mall, three up-and-coming “sandwich artists”—a teenager, a single mom, and a downsized refugee from corporate banking—are perfecting the mustard-to-cheese ratio according to the company manual. But when their shot at the American dream is interrupted by a series of strange events, they become unlikely allies in a post-recession world. AMERICAN HERO is a supersized dark comedy about life, liberty, and the pursuit of sandwiches.
Book Synopsis Broadbend, Arkansas by : Harrison David Rivers
Download or read book Broadbend, Arkansas written by Harrison David Rivers and published by Steele Spring Stage Rights. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-Length Musical | A Black family grapples with decades of inequality, violence, and suppression in the South. Benny, an orderly at a nursing home, delicately balances his role as a caregiver to an ornery white resident who shares a contentious past with his white boss, while at the same time caring for his own family as the fight for equality grips the nation in the midst of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Twenty-seven years later, his daughter Ruby struggles to understand an incident of police brutality against her 15-year-old son. This unique musical, spanning three decades and three generations, asks us to contemplate the cycle of violence in this country and how we will find hope and create change against the backdrop of hate that plagues America. (1F, 1M)
Download or read book Ironbound written by Martyna Majok and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant cleaning lady, is done talking about feelings; it’s time to talk money. Over the course of 20 years, and three relationships, Darja negotiates for her future with men who can offer her love or security, but never both. Award-winning playwright Martyna Majok’s IRONBOUND is a darkly funny, heartbreaking portrait of a woman for whom love is a luxury—and a liability—as she fights to survive in America.
Book Synopsis Monologues for Actors of Color by : Roberta Uno
Download or read book Monologues for Actors of Color written by Roberta Uno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an introduction and notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor. This new edition now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the Monologues for Actors of Color books were first published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners.
Download or read book Small Mouth Sounds written by Bess Wohl and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Leaves you moved, refreshed and, yes, maybe even enlightened.” —New York Times (Critic’s Pick) In the overwhelming quiet of the woods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent retreat. As these strangers confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their vows of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled with awkward and insightful humor, Bess Wohl’s beguiling and compassionate new play brilliantly captures the unique eloquence of a silent retreat and asks how we address life’s biggest questions when words fail us. A major hit of the 2015–16 Off Broadway season with two sold out extended runs, Small Mouth Sounds is “wry and observant . . . long on emotions and short on words” (Daily News).
Book Synopsis They're Playing Our Song by : Marvin Hamlisch
Download or read book They're Playing Our Song written by Marvin Hamlisch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line; collaborated on this hit musical; a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike Carole Bayer Sager. Professionally, their relationship works beautifully, but ultimately leads to conflict on the home front. Of course, there's a happy ending.
Book Synopsis The Detroit Project by : Dominique Morisseau
Download or read book The Detroit Project written by Dominique Morisseau and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and comes alive in the characters and relationships that look toward complex, hopeful futures. With empathetic storytelling and an ear for the voices of her home community, Morisseau brings to life the soul of Detroit, past and present.
Download or read book Decade written by Samuel Adamson and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two towers. Ten Years. Twenty Plays. A thrillingly imaginative site-specific drama investigating the legacy of 9/11.
Download or read book The Underlying Chris written by Will Eno and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a life-affirming and high-spirited look at how a person comes into their identity, and how sometimes it's life's tiniest moments that most profoundly change our lives." --page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis Korngold and His World by : Daniel Goldmark
Download or read book Korngold and His World written by Daniel Goldmark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by everyone from Mahler to Puccini and his auspicious career in the early 1900s spanned chamber music, opera, and musical theater. Today, he is best known for his Hollywood film scores, composed between 1935 and 1947.
Book Synopsis The Basset Table by : Susanna Centlivre
Download or read book The Basset Table written by Susanna Centlivre and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basset Table follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy. Meanwhile, Lady Reveller’s cousin, Valeria, spends her time conducting scientific experiments and dissections, but her father intends to marry her off to the bluff sea-captain Hearty. How can Lady Reveller be persuaded to forego the delights of gambling? And how can Valeria avoid an unwanted marriage? This witty play paints a seductive picture of the thrills of the Restoration gaming table and challenges contemporary stereotypes of the learned lady. Appendices to this Broadview Edition include materials on female education, gambling, and writing for the stage, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critical writing on Centlivre and The Basset Table.
Book Synopsis Sunset Baby by : Dominique Morisseau
Download or read book Sunset Baby written by Dominique Morisseau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenyatta Shakur is alone. His wife has died, and now, this former Black Revolutionary and political prisoner, is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter Nina. If Kenyatta truly wants to reconcile his past, he must first conquer his most challenging revolution of all – fatherhood. Sunset Baby is an energised, vibrant and witty look at the point where the personal and political collide. One of the most exciting and distinctive undiscovered voices in America.
Book Synopsis Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by : Alexis Scheer
Download or read book Our Dear Dead Drug Lord written by Alexis Scheer and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gang of teenage girls gathers in an abandoned treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Are they messing with the actual spirit of the infamous cartel kingpin? Or are they really just messing with each other? A roller coaster ride through the danger and damage of girlhood - the teenage wasteland - has never been so much twisted fun. Critic's Pick! "Highly entertaining - equally funny and scary." - The New York Times Four Stars! "Just when you think you know where the play is heading, there's a disorienting coup de théâtre that leaves you shaken. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord isn't for the faint of heart, but neither is coming of age." - Raven Snook, Time Out Critic's Pick! "Highly entertaining - equally funny and scary - the play starts off as a hoot and winds up a primal scream. They're throwing quite a seance at the McGinn/Cazale Theater." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times "As funny as it is violent and dark... Our Dear Dead Drug Lord is not quiet, small, or apologetic. It is loud and messy and truthful. It is incredibly complicated and a thing of extreme beauty. It is everything in women that society tells them they need to repress, and in this I found it incredibly enjoyable and inspiring." - Brittany Crowell, New York Theatre Guide "The challenges of female adolescence... explored with a remarkably fresh, honest and sometimes hilarious perspective." - Brian Scott Lipton, Theater Pizzazz "Unsettling... Scheer's characters are brilliantly drawn... the work of a born playwright and a unique new voice... As a story of female empowerment, it is both scary and revealing." - Victor Gluck, Theater Scene "An imaginative and ultimately savage new play... An offbeat Mean Girls sort of dramedy that unexpectedly concludes in a violent burst of magical realism." - Michael Sommers, New York Stage Review
