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Download or read book Three Plays written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absurd person singular: "A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, [this play] follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each others' kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Bedroom farce written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, gripping and wrenchingly truthful, these three blackly comic plays slice into the soul of suburbia. Couples - often mismatched, sometimes disorientated - dominate the action. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - all familiar terrains where husbands and wives meet, bewildered, puzzled and angry. 'In the hilarious delineation of marital pain there is no one to touch Alan Ayckbourn' Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph.
Book Synopsis Contemporary British Drama, 1970–90 by : Hersh Zeifman
Download or read book Contemporary British Drama, 1970–90 written by Hersh Zeifman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-04-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.
Book Synopsis Reunion ; Dark Pony by : David Mamet
Download or read book Reunion ; Dark Pony written by David Mamet and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reunion depicts the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter drawn together by their loneliness after twenty years of separation...In the short vignette Dark Pony, a father tells a favorite bedtime story to comfort his young daughter as they drive home late at night.
Download or read book The Story of Drama written by Gary Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landmark plays and their context. It argues that sacrifice is central to both genres, and demonstrates how it provides a key to understanding the grand sweep of Western drama. For students of literature and drama the volume serves as an accessible companion to over two millennia of drama organised by period, and reveals how sacrifice represents a through-line running from classical drama to today's reality TV and blockbuster movies. Across the chapters devoted to each period, Day explores how the meanings of sacrifice change over time, but never quite disappear. He charts the influences of religion, social change and politics on the status and purposes of theatre in each period, and on the drama itself. But it is through a close study of key plays that he reveals the continuities centred around sacrifice that persist and which illuminate aspects of human psychology and social organisation. Among the many plays and events considered are Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmorphia, Menander's The Bad-Tempered Man, the spectacles of the Roman Games, Seneca's The Trojan Women, Plautus's The Rope, the Cycle plays and Everyman from the Middle Ages, Shakespeare's King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, Thomas Otway's The Orphan, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, Beckett' Waiting for Godot, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, Sarah Kane's Blasted and Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy. A conclusion examines the persistence of ideas of sacrifice in today's reality TV and blockbuster movies.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 by : Mary Luckhurst
Download or read book A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 written by Mary Luckhurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Book Synopsis Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric by : Giles Taylor
Download or read book Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric written by Giles Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, accessible and thorough guide to identifying and using rhetorical devices in drama, using examples from both classical and contemporary plays. An unprecedented reference and handbook for actors, directors, playwrights and teachers; written by practitioners for practitioners. Little has been written about how dramatists draw on rhetorical devices, and how a study of these can unlock a text for a performer or director, or indeed inspire contemporary playwrights. This book addresses in detail – yet in straightforward terms – the many different rhetorical forms used in drama, and enables the reader to identify and analyse them. Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric may be read cover to cover, or it may be dipped into; it is both an analytic tool and a reference aid for use in the classroom or rehearsal room, revealing how careful study of language is one of the best ways of accessing the richness of texts both classical and contemporary.
Download or read book Ends and Odds written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot.
Download or read book Modern Dramatists written by Kimball King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
Download or read book Confusions written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright.
Download or read book Stage Right written by John Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage Right is a refreshingly abrasive account of the state of British theatre since 1979, offering an account of the development of a new mainstream formed in conscious opposition to the work of the politically committed dramatists of the 70s and an analysis of the plays of the most successful playwrights of the new mainstream: Nichols, Gray, Frayn, Bennett, Ayckbourn and Stoppard.
Download or read book Table Manners written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house. As it happens the seduction, thought or planned, by each of the six characters never takes place either"--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn written by Michael Holt and published by Writers & Their Work S. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Ayckbourn is, after Shakespeare, Britain's most performed playwright and acknowledged as one of its most skilful directors. In 50 years he has written more than seventy plays and directed three times that number emerging as a formidable dramatist of international renown. Dismissed at first as a "mere boulevadier", he is now seen as an outstanding modern comic playwright, exploring themes of social and political importance with a bleak eye and a capacity to construct comedy out of the experience of the middle class audience. This book explores the range of his work which covers light comedy, farce, theatrical cartoon, musicals and plays for children. It defines the early influences and the developing themes, concentrating on Ayckbourn's technical skills and his challenges to Aristotelian unities. It traces the playwright's journey from observer of middle class dilemmas through moral and ethical commentator, and on to his concentration on fantasist behaviour and the nature of long term relationsh
Book Synopsis Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century by : Christopher Innes
Download or read book Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century written by Christopher Innes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis Laughter in the Dark by : Albert E. Kalson
Download or read book Laughter in the Dark written by Albert E. Kalson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Laughter in the Dark, a comprehensive study of the plays of Alan Ayckbourn, Britain's most prolific contemporary dramatist, Albert E. Kalson demonstrates that a recurring character is a development of the persona of the author himself. The protagonist with a divided personality in Ayckbourn's first play, The Square Cat, a reluctant rock star who longs for a conventional life, splits into opposing characters in his later works. In the recent The Revenger's Comedies, a man sharing his author's offstage diffidence finds himself in the control of a flamboyant woman who is, as Ayckbourn himself has been, both performer and director, as she manipulates her way to the top of a multinational corporation mirroring the Britain of the Thatcher years." "Once considered a mere farceur, Ayckbourn has won critical respect as his plays reflect the breakdown of self, family, and community. The moving portrait of a woman on the brink of insanity in Just Between Ourselves is a development of The Square Cat's dissatisfied housewife, who reemerges as the giddily bewildered wife of a philandering husband in the delightfully frothy Relatively Speaking. Madness is more fully, more darkly etched in Woman in Mind and leads to the more disturbing madness of the world at large in The Revenger's Comedies, even to that of the universe itself in Wildest Dreams. Ayckbourn has explored the encroachment of evil within the social and political contexts of Way Upstream, A Small Family Business, and Man of the Moment, and his nightmare vision of the future in Henceforward...seems uncomfortably close to the contemporary, automated world in which man is replaced by machine." "Kalson explores what he calls the Ayckbourn A-effect. Like Bertolt Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt, Ayckbourn's method insists on an audience's awareness of the actor at once as character and performer; but unlike Brecht's didactic works aimed at rousing an audience to action, Ayckbourn uses his A-effect to heighten an audience's exhilaration. Laughter, he knows, does not preclude the engagement of the mind. Brecht distances his audiences by suggesting unperformed alternate possibilities; Ayckbourn engages his audience by providing those alternates. In How the Other Half Loves the overlapping of time and place provides a telling commentary on Britain's class structure. The technique leads Ayckbourn to expand the limits of theatrical presentation even further with alternate scenes in Sisterly Feelings, even alternate plays in The Norman Conquests, climaxing with Intimate Exchanges, an extraordinary work for two performers that moves in sixteen directions, stemming from a woman's seemingly trivial decision whether to have or not to have a cigarette. The role in our lives of chance and/or choice is a recurring concern for a playwright who never loses sight of his primary function - to entertain his audience. Remarkably, as Ayckbourn's plays darken, that audience continues to roar with laughter, but after the laughter comes a contemplation of a less-than-perfect world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Library Journal Book Review, 1979 by : Jaques Cattell Press
Download or read book Library Journal Book Review, 1979 written by Jaques Cattell Press and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1980-03 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
