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Visiting Edna and Good for Otto

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802189601
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Visiting Edna and Good for Otto written by David Rabe and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two plays exploring the struggle of mental illness by the Tony Award–winning “giant of American theater” and author of Hurlyburly (Chicago Tribune). Good for Otto, which premiered in October 2015 at the Gift Theatre in Chicago, is a “sprawling drama of mental illness” in which “Mr. Rabe digs into his subject with a depth that almost feels bottomless.” Drawing on material from Undoing Depression by psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, it explores the lives of a therapist and his many patients, all trying to navigate personal trauma (Charles Isherwood, The New York Times). Visiting Edna, which premiered in September 2016 at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, is a drama of “deeply searing power” about the bond between mother and son. As Edna faces a short future plagued by her many illnesses—and a cancer that looms so large it becomes another character—she and her adult son struggle to communicate about their shared past as they contemplate the future (Variety). Taken together, the plays offer a satisfying glimpse into “Rabe’s theatrical universe . . . at once vivid and mysterious, a pageant and a puzzle” of contemporary American life (John Lahr, The New Yorker). “Many would list [Rabe] among the very greatest of living playwrights.” —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

Visiting Edna

Author : David Rabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802126900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Visiting Edna written by David Rabe and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good for Otto, which premiered in October 2015 at the Gift Theatre in Chicago, directed by Michael Patrick Thornton, is an unflinching portrayal of the world of mental illness and therapy. Drawing on material from Undoing Depression by Connecticut psychotherapist Richard O'Connor, it is a deeply moving look into the life of a number of patients trying to navigate personal trauma, including a profoundly troubled young girl, and one therapist, Dr. Michaels, who makes great efforts to help them, but is haunted by his own demons, and stymied by the financial obstacles of the American healthcare system. Visiting Edna, which premiered in September 2016 at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, is a stylistically dazzling exploration of the bond between mother and son. As Edna, a woman in the last years of her life, faces a short future plagued by her many illnesses, from diabetes to arthritis to cancer, she maintains the emotional distance she has kept from her son Andrew since he became an adult, and they both struggle to communicate about their shared past as they contemplate the future. Taken together, the plays form a startling and thought-provoking vision of American society and cement Rabe's place in the upper echelons of the canon of contemporary theater.

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Author : Peter Nichols
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573619267
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book A Day in the Death of Joe Egg written by Peter Nichols and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1967 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play centres on a British couple, Bri and Sheila, who are struggling to save their marriage whilst trying to raise their only child, a small girl named Josephine, who has cerebral palsy. She uses a wheelchair and is nonverbal, which her parents see as unable to communicate. Caring for her has occupied nearly every moment of her parents' lives since her birth, taking a heavy toll on their marriage. Sheila gives Josephine as much of a life as she can, while Bri wants the child institutionalised and has begun to entertain chilling fantasies of killing himself and Josephine.

Good for Otto

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822235862
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Good for Otto written by David Rabe and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychologist tries to keep the health center he runs in rural Connecticut afloat, battling insurance companies and his own demons, while ministering to the distressed souls who find their way to his door.

Listening for Ghosts

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504081536
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Listening for Ghosts written by David Rabe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these disquieting tales of confronting the past, the author and playwright showcases his “keen ear for how people talk, think, and behave” (Publishers Weekly). Listening for Ghosts collects some of David Rabe’s most compelling short fiction of the past few years, including three stories that appeared in the New Yorker. In “Things We Worried About When I Was Ten,” a group of seemingly carefree Midwestern boys are revealed to be egregiously uncared for by their parents. “The Longer Grief” is a slow-motion explosion, as one moment in time propels shards of reckoning through the shared history of a brother and sister. In “Uncle Jim Called,” a man cooking stir fry answers a phone call from the dead . “Suffocation Theory” slyly depicts our off-kilter and increasingly apocalyptic world. In the novella, I Have to Tell You, the elderly tenants of a Midwestern apartment complex seek fairness from a conniving landlord. When an emergency stay in the hospital brings a near-octogenarian named Emma face-to-face with looming injustice, she finds herself burdened with two mysteries to solve. She may never get to the bottom of them, but she is determined to do all she can. Also included are “Things We Worried About When I Was Ten,” which won the 2021 O. Henry Prize, and “The Longer Grief,” which won first prize in the 2019 Narrative Story Contest.

Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538123029
Total Pages : 1233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 1233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater. Second Edition covers theatrical practice and practitioners as well as the dramatic literature of the United States of America from 1930 to the present. The 90 years covered by this volume features the triumph of Broadway as the center of American drama from 1930 to the early 1960s through a Golden Age exemplified by the plays of Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, and Edward Albee, among others. The impact of the previous modernist era contributed greatly to this period of prodigious creativity on American stages. This volume will continue through an exploration of the decline of Broadway as the center of U.S. theater in the 1960s and the evolution of regional theaters, as well as fringe and university theaters that spawned a second Golden Age at the millennium that produced another – and significantly more diverse – generation of significant dramatists including such figures as Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Maria Irené Fornes, Beth Henley, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and numerous others. The impact of the Great Depression and World War II profoundly influenced the development of the American stage, as did the conformist 1950s and the revolutionary 1960s on in to the complex times in which we currently live. Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on plays, playwrights, directors, designers, actors, critics, producers, theaters, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about American theater.

Visiting Edna

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822235900
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Visiting Edna written by David Rabe and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edna has suffered losses as she has aged, and now she faces a late-life cancer diagnosis. Edna’s son, Andrew, is home for a visit. Together they try to bridge the gulf between the love they shared in his childhood and the polite but baffling relationship they now live with. Mother and son stumble toward honesty as they wrestle with the phantoms—both mundane and profound—that keep them from real connection.

Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408857669
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett written by James Knowlson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'A triumph of scholarship and sympathy... one of the great post-war biographies' - Independent 'A landmark in scholarly criticism... Knowlson is the world's largest Beckett scholar. His life is right up there with George Painter's Proust and Richard Ellmann's Joyce in sensitivity and fascination' - Daily Telegraph 'It is hard to imagine a fuller portrait of the man who gave our age some of the myths by which it lives' - Evening Standard _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD PRIZE _______________ Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip. The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding. Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Other Desert Cities

Author : Jon Robin Baitz
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822226055
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Other Desert Cities written by Jon Robin Baitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the f

In the Boom Boom Room

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196950
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book In the Boom Boom Room written by David Rabe and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing portrait of a young dancer’s descent into hell—extensively revised and returned to the two-act structure originally intended by the author. Chrissy, a bright and not-quite-innocent woman with visions of a career as a dancer, finds herself in the Boom Boom Room, a disco/bar in Philadelphia meant to be her first step on the road to stardom. Instead, she finds herself fighting to keep her dreams intact amid the anesthetic sex and stimulation that surround her, the psychological residue of her parents’ betrayals, and the bizarre pack of suitors who follow her. In a desperate search for love and hope, Chrissy careens from the seductive mistress of ceremonies at the Boom Boom Room to the earnestly friendly gay man next door to a brutally passionate lover. In its compassionate look at Chrissy’s living nightmare, In the Boom Boom Room is a piercing look at a society dangerously close to our own lives, and a drama that captures both our hearts and our heads.

The Pullman News

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pullman News written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report

Author : Illinois. Board of Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by Illinois. Board of Administration and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 2 includes biennial reports of the State Charitable Institutions.

Annual Report, ... , Inclusive

Author : Illinois. Board of Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report, ... , Inclusive written by Illinois. Board of Administration and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

First[-Seventh] Annual Report

Author : Illinois. Board of Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book First[-Seventh] Annual Report written by Illinois. Board of Administration and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Question of Mercy

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802135490
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Mercy written by David Rabe and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists. In A Question of Mercy, he explores the controversial and emotional issue of euthanasia, delving deep into the ties that bind friends and lovers. Thomas and Anthony are lovers struggling with Anthony's final, exhausting battle with AIDS. Joined by their friend Susanah and a retired doctor, whose help Thomas has requested , they fashion a heartbreaking friendship as they work through the stages of a plan to relieve Anthony of his illness and his life. Rabe creates a passionate depiction of four people confronted with the reality of a loved one's fight with death, and a compelling dramatic event that poses the question: "What would you do?"

Land of Milk and Omelets

Author : Ken Kraft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Land of Milk and Omelets written by Ken Kraft and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of the author and his wife while living on a farm.

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

Author : Wolf Burchard
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397416
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts written by Wolf Burchard and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink castles, talking sofas, and objects coming to life: what may sound like the fantasies of Hollywood dream-maker Walt Disney were in fact the figments of the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. Exploring the novel use of French motifs in Disney films and theme parks, this publication features forty works of eighteenth-century European design—from tapestries and furniture to Boulle clocks and Sèvres porcelain—alongside 150 Disney film stills, drawings, and other works on paper. The text connects these art forms through a shared dedication to craftsmanship and highlights references to European art in Disney films, including nods to Gothic Revival architecture in Cinderella (1950);bejeweled, medieval manuscripts in Sleeping Beauty (1959); and Rococo-inspired furnishings and objects brought to life in Beauty and the Beast (1991). Bridging fact and fantasy, this book draws remarkable new parallels between Disney’s magical creations and their artistic inspirations.