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The book examines the various ways in which theatre responds to our psychological needs. It begins with how we present our own personal drama and goes on to look at theatre as the means by which we give events personal and corporate significance. Theatre enables us to overcome our reluctance to face psychological pain and so helps us towards healing, concentrating on its balance of protection and exposureits principal contribution to health and its...
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Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Michael Ross Albert, Don Nigro, Daniel Damiano, Molly Goforth, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Brian Dykstra, Michael A. Jones, Sam Graber, Penny Jackson, Christi...
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Michelle Hensley, founder of Ten Thousand Things Theater in Minneapolis, shares more than twenty years of her company's nationally unique work bringing professional theater to those in prisons, homeless shelters, adult education centers, and rural areas, as well as the general public. More than a chronological history, All the Lights On is also about the radiant power of theater. In this articulate and compelling book, Hensley distills what nontraditional...
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Manifeste de la Jeune-Fille prend pour point de départ les magazines féminins, et les modèles-de femme idéale, de consommateur idéal-qu'ils mettent en scène. La Jeune-Fille n'a ni sexe, ni âge. Elle est la figure de proue du capitalisme, auquel elle prétend chercher une porte de sortie. Révolution ou quête de distinction sociale? Inlassablement, la Jeune-Fille fait de ses rébellions la tendance à adopter.
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, “The Best American Short Plays” has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. William W. Demastes made his debut as series editor with the well-received...
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El objetivo del presente volumen ha sido reunir una selección de obras de teatro que trajeran a escena la experiencia vital y el imaginario de los afrodescendientes en América Latina. Los dramaturgos escogidos elaboraron sus textos con elementos poéticos, rituales, míticos, cómicos y trágicos para recrear historias que develaran no solo una rica herencia cultural, sino también las circunstancias de vida en un mundo hostil que todavía ve en...
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Vanas repeticiones del olvido contiene-en una edición preparada por el propio autor-la obra dramática de Eusebio Calonge escrita entre 1992 y 2022 principalmente para La Zaranda, pero también para otras compañías. En palabras del propio autor, estas obras se reúnen con la intención de facilitar «una visión completa, todo el horizonte de un lenguaje. Creo que existen en el mío unas corrientes constantes: la meditación sobre el propio sentido...
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Han pasado 10 años desde que Quique vio a Paula por última vez. Fue un amor de otro mundo y no solo por la diferencia de edad, también porque pertenecían a universos muy diferentes. Aún así se amaban con todo, a pesar de saber, o quizá precisamente por eso, que su historia no era posible. Ahora, desde la serenidad del paso del tiempo, volverán a encontrarse. Quique tiene algo importante que decirle a Paula.
Eva ayudará a Quique a afrontar...
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With the paranormal becoming so mainstream in the last decade between television, books, and movies, is the craze actually brand new? Before there was the entertainment industry that we know of today, plays and musicals were one of the primary forms of expression and reflections of societys beliefs of their time. This book will cover an analysis of the belief in the supernatural throughout the course of humanitys existence and showing that in a way,...
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The expansion of the press in Victorian Britain meant more pages to be filled, and more stories to be found. Life on the Victorian Stage: Theatrical Gossip looks at how the everyday lives of Victorian performers and managers were used for such a purpose, with the British newspapers covering the good, the bad and the ugly side of life on the stage during the nineteenth century. Viewed through the prism of Victorian newspapers, and in particular through...
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¿Qué relación hay entre voluntad y fe? ¿Qué hace que algo sea verosímil? ¿Qué papel ocupa la voluntad en la sugestión? El dramaturgo y director de escena Pablo Messiez escribe y dirige La voluntad de creer, una obra que toma como punto de partida Ordet, la película de Dreyer, para aproximarse a la muerte y la resurrección. Como protagonista encontramos al menor de una familia de hermanos que sostiene ser Jesús de Nazaret. Sus hermanas...
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When a young Indian woman named Cornelia Sorabji stepped into a law class at Oxford's Somerville Hall in 1891, the male students and faculty assumed she was there to serve them tea... or to commence searching for a suitable English husband.
They were gravely mistaken on both counts.
53) Dead 2 Rights
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Archetypical Corporation is holding its annual meeting. CEO Gordon Mullens believes profits are looking up. But shareholder Anne Stratton insists the company is cooking the books and has evidence to prove it! If only they could find someone to hook up the overhead projector.But before anyone can find assistance, the meeting is interrupted by the Golden Guild Used Book Club. They also have reserved the room. Now if they could find someone to straighten...
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Ben and Susan Zucker-Feld arrive at the home of Rev. Jack Reed and his wife Virginia. Their children, Jessica and John, have recently become engaged. This is the couples' first meeting. The Reeds are Christian evangelicals who recently moved from Wichita, Kansas to the Washington DC are. The Zucker-Felds are Jewish liberals. The two couples try to bridge the gaps between their two worlds - but find it difficult to forge a common language. When their...
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In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. And with his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written a scathingly funny satire on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art.
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Dracula stalks the stage in this two-act thriller freely adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. Perfect for any company or community looking for a Halloween play requiring a large ensemble cast. (8 Male, 6 female, and 2 children - casting can be flexible) This version of the classic vampre tale focuses on Mina Murray, a suffragette and proto-feminist fighting social mores and facing an encroaching force for evil.Suspenseful, smart, and surprising.Includes...
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Un grupo de profesores especialistas del teatro español, francés e italiano reflexionan desde la teatralidad franciscana medieval hasta los orígenes de la tragedia, el teatro como espectáculo y el espacio escénico, sin dejar de lado a autores como Carlo Gozzi o Giovan Battista Gelli. Un elenco de investigadores que rinden un merecido homenaje a Federico Doglio, creador del «Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale», quien supo fusionar...
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"Shake well before using," or simply dip in and stir your way around this collection of one-act plays. You'll find lots of laughs, several feel-good moments, and a few serious notes. There is a trilogy tracking the arc of a fiftieth-year class reunion, some old-time, sometimes off-the-wall melodramas and plays bringing a mixture of insights, running from the art of playwriting by committee to a unique view of the travel industry.
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Descubrir a Susan Glaspell, una de las voces más carismáticas y originales de principios del siglo XX, es una apasionante sorpresa. Cofundadora de los Provincetown Players, se dejó arrastrar por los sueños e ideales de su marido, para crear un teatro vanguardista genuinamente norteamericano. Las consagradas dotes de esta dramaturga enmarcan en el espacio temporal de la conducta humana las cuatro breves obras recogidas en este volumen escritas...
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. This volume, Bill Demastes' first edition as series editor, illustrates how well...
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