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Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays

Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559368284
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays written by Richard Nelson and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodnight Children Everywhere "Richard Nelson’s new play announces itself almost as if it were Chekhovian . . . the play, like all plays of discovery and purgation, has a translucency and a density that nag, hurt and heal."—London Sunday Times New England "Smart, sharp, acridly funny . . . in the sweetest of all ironies, it’s an American writer at the peak of his form who has given London’s RSC the major new play that has eluded them all year."—Variety Some Americans Abroad "A sequel to The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain’s caustic view of pretentious Americans abroad: both works indict the well-educated American middle-class for its supine and superficial relationship to Old World culture."—New York Times Two Shakespearean Actors "Nelson’s provocative account of the deadly rivalry between two great 18th-century actors."—Variety Franny’s Way "Boundaries warp and melt in the dense urban heat that pervades Franny’s Way, Richard Nelson’s sensitively drawn portrait of love in the age of J.D. Salinger."—New York Times A prolific and varied writer, Richard Nelson is also the author of a screenplay, a television play, the books for musicals and plays for young audiences, as well as a string of radio plays and powerful adaptations from the classic European repertory of Beaumarchais, Brecht, Chekhov, Goldoni, Molière and Strindberg, all of which have influenced the development of his own craft. Among his many awards include the London Time Out Award, two OBIEs, two Giles Cooper awards and numerous grants and fellowships. He is an honorary associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Goodnight Children Everywhere

Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780881458480
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Goodnight Children Everywhere written by Richard Nelson and published by Broadway Play Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivier Award, Best Play "Nelson's great virtue is that he asks hard questions about the emotional priorities of people who've missed out on their childhoods, poignantly charting the outer boundaries of affection and the disparity between the human craving for love and the human ability to give it." Kate Straiton, Time Out "Upsettingly engrossing." Louise Kingsley, What's On "I have long believed Nelson to be among the greatest dramatists of his generation...there is a remarkable kind of poetry here..." Sheridan Morley, The Spectator

Goodnight Children, Everywhere

Author : Monica B Morris
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752475681
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Goodnight Children, Everywhere written by Monica B Morris and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the many children torn from their families, taken miles from home and placed with strangers, the evacuation at the outbreak of the Second World War was a life-changing experience. In Goodnight Children, Everywhere, men and women who were children at the time recall their poignant memories of being labelled, lined up and taken away. Their parents, urged by the government not to see the children off on the buses and trains, had no assurance that they would ever see their sons and daughters again. No lives were lost and no one was injured. Not so considered was the psychological wellbeing of these suddenly dislocated children. Some children were advantaged by the dramatic change in their lives; others, separated from all they knew and loved, suffered unendurable heartbreak. This is their story.

Granville Barker on Theatre

Author : Harley Granville Barker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474294855
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Granville Barker on Theatre written by Harley Granville Barker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granville Barker on Theatre brings together some of the most important critical theatrical writings of Harley Granville Barker, a major figure of 20th-century British theatre. Known as a pioneer of the National Theatre and Repertory Movement, and remembered mainly for his Prefaces to Shakespeare, from the 1900s to his death in the 1940s Granville Barker commented enthusiastically in newspaper items, introductions to plays, articles, essays, articles, and published lectures on a range of topics: the nature of theatre as an art form and as a social medium, the need for ensemble playing in a repertory system, the relationship between the three chief constituents of theatre – the actor, the playwright and the audience. Granville Barker on Theatre makes available again these writings in which Barker dissects the state of theatre as he saw it, with coruscating critiques of the commercial system, the long run and censorship, the vitality of theatre outside Britain, and what he saw as the welcome renaissance of theatre in non-professional groups liberated from the profit motive. These writings show a master practitioner concerned with, above all, promoting a new type of drama; vital not only for its own sake but for the sake of the health of society at large.

Rodney's Wife

Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559368292
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Rodney's Wife written by Richard Nelson and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A full emotional geography of a family . . . Seemingly light conversation scrapes the skins of the characters in this sharply etched study of dislocation, loneliness and sexual betrayal.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times “Nelson is a master of the quiet detail, of the oblique rhythm that transforms emotional diffidence into fascinating character.”—Linda Winer, Newsday “The early scenes proceed with the closely observed simplicity of Chekhov, whereas the later more wrenching moments evoke the eloquent bitterness of Albee.”—David Cote, TimeOut New York A new work by leading American playwright Richard Nelson, who for more than 25 years has written prolifically, and with fine detail, on the perplexities of everyday living. In Rodney’s Wife, a fading American actor in Rome for the filming of a 1960s spaghetti Western gathers with family and friends at a rented villa. Over the course of one booze-soaked summer night, jealousies and secrets are revealed that crumble the foundations of their relationships. Inspired by Euripides, the play is a tragedy of exiles who continue to need each other, even as they push away. Richard Nelson won Britain’s Olivier Award for Best Play for Goodnight Children Everywhere, and the Tony Award for Best Book for his musical James Joyce’s The Dead. His plays have been widely produced in the U.S. and Great Britain. He is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Chair of the Playwriting Department at the Yale School of Drama.

The Gabriels

Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559368705
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The Gabriels written by Richard Nelson and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary theatrical event in which the personal and the political combine in a way that suggests a contemporary Chekhov.” —Michael Billington, Guardian This intimate and landmark series follows the Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, through the momentous and divisive 2016 election year. While preparing meals in their kitchen, together they grapple in real time with issues of money, history, art, politics and family, as well as the fear of having been left behind.

Illyria (TCG Edition)

Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559369086
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Illyria (TCG Edition) written by Richard Nelson and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1958, and New York City is in the midst of a major building boom; a four-lane highway is planned for the heart of Washington Square; Carnegie Hall is designated for demolition; entire neighborhoods on the West Side are leveled to make room for a new "palace of art." Meanwhile, a young Joe Papp and his colleagues face betrayals, self-inflicted wounds, and anger from the city’s powerful elite as they continue their free Shakespeare productions in Central Park. From the creator of the most celebrated family plays of the last decade comes a drama about a different kind of family – one held together by the simple and incredibly complicated belief that the theater, and the city, belong to all of us.

Frank's Home

Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559368276
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Frank's Home written by Richard Nelson and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thoroughly invigorating, tightly focused piece of Chekhovian drama, wherein chatter about work and art . . . fail to mask deep vulnerability."—Chicago Tribune A play about Frank Lloyd Wright set in the summer of 1923, when the great architect has recently left Chicago for California, hoping to mend his relationship with his adult children. Richard Nelson brings to life two great architectural demigods, Wright and Louis Sullivan, only to show their all-too-human frailties. Richard Nelson's plays include Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Some Americans Abroad, Franny's Way, New England, and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), winner of the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

The Apple Family

Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559364564
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The Apple Family written by Richard Nelson and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chekhovian quartet of plays examining the contemporary American experience.

Richard Nelson: Plays 2

Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280722
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Richard Nelson: Plays 2 written by Richard Nelson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Plays of Adolescence: Goodnight Children Everywhere; Franny's Way; Madame Melville Goodnight Children Everywhere Olivier Award for Best Play, 2000 'Exile - both literal and emotional - has been a haunting preoccupation for this dramatist. And with all themes of displacement and loss comes the yearning for a sense of place, for those attachments we cannot always rationalize but know as home. In Goodnight Children Everywhere, the safe harbor of home has been dynamited by war... A disturbing and lovely domestic drama about the loss of childhood.' New York Observer Franny's Way 'Boundaries warp and melt in the dense urban heat that pervades Franny's Way, Nelson's sensitively drawn portrait of love in the age of J.D.Salinger. The lines between childhood and adulthood blur disorientatingly for the three generations of characters gathered in a cramped apartment in Greenwich Village at the height of the summer in the 1950's... Nelson continues to give compassionate and insightful life to such erotic waywardness.' New York Times 'It moves with the breathless haste of a horny teen on prom night.' Time Out New York Madame Melville 'A memory play of wonderful delicacy, tenderness and humour... I left the theatre elated at having discovered such a terrific new play. An exquisite reminder of lost love, innocence and youth.' Daily Telegraph 'An elegant, tender, beguiling play.' Guardian 'It moves with the breathless haste of a horny teen on prom night.' Time Out New York Madame Melville 'A memory play of wonderful delicacy, tenderness and humour... I left the theatre elated at having discovered such a terrific new play. An exquisite reminder of lost love, innocence and youth.' Daily Telegraph 'An elegant, tender, beguiling play.' Guardian

Contemporary American Playwrights

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668071
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Playwrights written by C. W. E. Bigsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.

In the Great Green Room

Author : Amy Gary
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250065372
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book In the Great Green Room written by Amy Gary and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret’s books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children’s book publishing revolution. Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, book ideas, songs, and poems and she was renowned for her prolific writing and business savvy, as well as her stunning beauty and endless thirst for adventure. Margaret started her writing career by helping to shape the curriculum for the Bank Street School for children, making it her mission to create stories that would rise above traditional fairy tales and allowed girls to see themselves as equal to boys. At the same time, she also experimented endlessly with her own writing. Margaret would spend days researching subjects, picking daisies, cloud gazing, and observing nature, all in an effort to precisely capture a child’s sense of awe and wonder as they discovered the world. Clever, quirky, and incredibly talented, Margaret embraced life with passion, lived extravagantly off of her royalties, went on rabbit hunts, and carried on long and troubled love affairs with both men and women. Among them were two great loves in Margaret’s life. One was a gender-bending poet and the ex-wife of John Barrymore. She went by the stage name of Michael Strange and she and Margaret had a tempestuous yet secret relationship, at one point living next door to each other so that they could be together. After the dissolution of their relationship and Michael’s death, Margaret became engaged to a younger man, who also happened to be the son of a Rockefeller and a Carnegie. But before they could marry Margaret died unexpectedly at the age of forty-two, leaving behind a cache of unpublished work and a timeless collection of books that would go on become classics in children’s literature. In In the Great Green Room, author Amy Gary captures the eccentric and exceptional life of Margaret Wise Brown, and drawing on newly-discovered personal letters and diaries, reveals an intimate portrait of a creative genius whose unrivaled talent breathed new life in to the literary world.

Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559368616
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote written by Mikhail Bulgakov and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English.” – James Wood, New Yorker Best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov had a knack for political allegory. Both Molière, or the Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote were contentious in their time, written as a challenge to Soviet politics of the early twentieth century, especially Stalin’s harsh regime. Charged with cultural subtext and controversial intrigue, the plays in this exceptional new volume from TCG’s Russian Drama Series are given new light by the foremost translators of Russian classic literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, in collaboration with renowned playwright Richard Nelson. Richard Nelson’s many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry, Regular Singing); The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Hungry, What Did You Expect?, Women of a Certain Age); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Oliver Award for Best Play); Franny’s Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank’s Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical). Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002 respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France.

The Oxford Guide to Plays

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198604181
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Plays written by Michael Patterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone with an academic, professional, amateur, or recreational interest in the theatre is likely to want to look up details of particular plays sometimes - perhaps to check on the author, or on when they were first performed, or perhaps to see how many characters they have, and whether or not they would be suitable for their theatre company or drama group to perform. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the 1000 best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of title, author, date of composition, date of first performance, genre, setting, and the composition of the cast, and more. A synopsis of the plot and a brief commentary, perhaps on the context of the play, or the reasons for its enduring popularity, follow. Around 80 of the most significant plays - from The Oresteia to Waiting for Godot - are dealt with in more detail. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. An index of characters enables the reader to locate favourite characters, and trace the trajectory of major historical and legendary characters - such as Iphigenia - through world drama, including in plays that do not have entries in the Dictionary. An index of playwrights, with dates, allows the reader to find all the plays included by a particular author.

The Armour

Author : Ben Ellis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474256155
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Armour written by Ben Ellis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because power is fragile, it requires you naked. That is why the most powerful people in the world have sex in hotels. In fact, having sex in the best hotels makes you powerful. It doesn't matter how good the sex is, only how good the hotel is. Featuring three duologues, set in 2015, 1970 and 1981, all within the walls of London's Langham Hotel, The Armour is a site-specific drama about the lasting and changing effects of empire. The play received its world premiere at The Langham Hotel, in a promenade production, on 3 March 2015.

Everywhere, Wonder

Author : Matthew Swanson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250087953
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Everywhere, Wonder written by Matthew Swanson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book for all ages about noticing the wonder and beauty in the world both near and far"--

The Oxford Dictionary of Plays

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192518496
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Plays written by Michael Patterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast; there is also a summary of the play's plot, and a brief commentary. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. The perfect guide for students and scholars of drama and literature, theatre professionals, and directors looking for plays for performance.