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Book Synopsis Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays (Revised Edition) by : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Download or read book Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays (Revised Edition) written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Revised Broadway version of Appropriate. Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play. A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers. In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch. An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece. Also includes the short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...
Book Synopsis An Octoroon by : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Download or read book An Octoroon written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.
Book Synopsis Appropriate by : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Download or read book Appropriate written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle the accounts of the newly-dead patriarch. As his three adult children sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, they collide over clutter, debt, and a contentious family history. But after a disturbing discovery surfaces among their father's possessions, the reunion takes a turn for the explosive, unleashing a series of crackling surprises and confrontations.
Download or read book The Octoroon written by Dion Boucicault and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Everybody by : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Download or read book Everybody written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living.
Download or read book Gloria written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.
Download or read book Coastal Disturbances written by Tina Howe and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a private New England beach, gale winds of romance engulf young and attractive Holly Dancer and her handsome, strapping Leo the lifeguard, as a galaxy of marvelously eccentric characters look on. There's Ariel, the bare survivor of a messy divorce, and her high-spirited 10-year old, Winston; Ariel's college roommate Faith, now (at long last!) pregnant; Faith's adopted daughter, Miranda; and M.J. and Hamilton, who after decades of marriage and nine children still have not settled their differences over Hamilton's past indiscretions. Meanwhile, Holly and Leo flirt and fall in love amid the ebb and flow of summer life swirling around them...Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Waverly Gallery by : Kenneth Lonergan
Download or read book The Waverly Gallery written by Kenneth Lonergan and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dramatic comedy / 3m, 2f / interior set"--back cover.
Book Synopsis Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun by : Rebecca Ann Rugg
Download or read book Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun written by Rebecca Ann Rugg and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of four contemporary plays that reflect the themes of racial and cultural difference of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun.
Book Synopsis Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by : Suzan-Lori Parks
Download or read book Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) written by Suzan-Lori Parks and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—The New York Times "Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."—New York Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present. Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.
Book Synopsis An Octoroon by : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Download or read book An Octoroon written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like,"Hey. I'm a slave. Help me?"' Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful 'octoroon'. But the dastardly M'Closky has other plans - for both Terrebonne and Zoe. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' exhilarating play, An Octoroon, draws on Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama The Octoroon to explore issues about race and identity in America today. The play won an OBIE Award when it was first seen in New York in 2014, and had its European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2017. It transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2018. An Octoroon won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the Most Promising Playwright Award at the Evening Standard Awards in 2017. He was also named Most Promising Playwright at the Critics' Circle Awards in 2018 for his plays Gloria and An Octoroon.
Book Synopsis Sugar in Our Wounds by : Donja R. Love
Download or read book Sugar in Our Wounds written by Donja R. Love and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a plantation somewhere down south, a mystical tree reaches up toward heaven. Generations of slaves have been hanged on this tree. But James is going to be different, as long as he keeps his head down and practices his reading. Moreover, as the Civil War rages on, the possibility of freedom looms closer than ever. When a stranger arrives on the plantation, a striking romance emerges, inviting the couple and those around them into uncharted territory.
Download or read book Fairview written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place…! FAIRVIEW is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of white supremacy.
Book Synopsis The Play That Goes Wrong by : Henry Lewis
Download or read book The Play That Goes Wrong written by Henry Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls? The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by award-winning company Theatre Mischief. It was first published as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act play.
Download or read book Silent Sky written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
Book Synopsis The Figure of the Monster in Global Theatre by : Michael M. Chemers
Download or read book The Figure of the Monster in Global Theatre written by Michael M. Chemers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together international perspectives on the figure of the “monster” in performance, this edited collection builds on discussions in the fields of posthumanism, bioethics, and performance studies. The collection aims to redefine “monstrosity” to describe the cultural processes by which certain identities or bodies are configured to be threateningly deviant, whether by race, gender, sexuality, nationality, immigration status, or physical or psychological extraordinariness. The book explores themes of race, white supremacy, and migration with the aim of investigating how the figure of the monster has been used to explore representations of race and identity. To these, we add discussions on gender, queer identities, and how the figure of the “monster” has been used to explore the gendered body to finally understand how monstrosity intersects with contemporary issues of technology and the natural world. Navigating the fields of disability studies, performance-centered monster studies, and representation in performance, editors Michael M. Chemers and Analola Santana have brought together perspectives on the figure of the “monster” from across a variety of fields that intersect with performance studies. This book is essential reading for Theatre and Performance students of all levels as well as scholars. It will also be an enlightening text for those interested in monstrosity and Cultural Studies more broadly.
Book Synopsis Theatre and Human Rights by : Gary M. English
Download or read book Theatre and Human Rights written by Gary M. English and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines. While human rights research and programming often employ the arts as representations of human rights-related violations and abuses, this study focuses on dramatic form and structure, in addition to content, as uniquely positioned to interrogate important questions in human rights theory and practice. This project positions theatre as a method of examination in addition to the important purposes the arts serve to raise consciousness that accompany other, often considered more primary modes of analysis. A main feature of this approach includes emphasis on dialectical structures in drama and human rights and integration of applied theatre and critical ethnography with more traditional theatre. This integration will demonstrate how theatre and human rights operates beyond the arts as representation model, offering a primary means of analysis, activism, and political discourse. This book will be of great interest to theatre and human rights practitioners and activists, scholars, and students.
