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1) Uncle Vanya
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Uncle Vanya (1898) is a four-act play by Russian short story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Astrov. Reviews were lukewarm at first, but as the play continued to run, Uncle Vanya gained both popularity and critical prowess, and has since become one of the most influential dramas ever produced.
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2) Two Halfs
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John Andrew Murray is a writer, architect and travelogue publisher. He was born and lived in west Belfast through the 60s, 70s and 80s at the height of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland.John is from a working class family. He joined a local running club and completed 4 full marathons before he was 16 years old. He worked for an architect's office when he left school at 16 then moved to England at the age of 20 where he continued working and studying...
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For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and theories of the greatest names in the past 200 years of drama, among them Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugene O'Neill, Bertolt Brecht, Tenessee Williams, Sean O'Casey, and Arthur Miller, to name a few. In the first part of...
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Comical, offbeat, poignant, and fresh, The Best Plays of 2014 presents six of the most original plays of the year in a single volume – selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison.
• The Country House, a comedy about a deeply dramatic family, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies.
• Dinner with the Boys, an offbeat, dark comedy by Dan Lauria about some old-time wise guys who want to have a good Italian meal and a few laughs...
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Imagine a shy young man working for The Mob with a boss who is less than honorable and he is unfortunate enough to be in the next room when his boss is eliminated. Sharp enough to know that he must go on the lam, drop out of sight and live an invisible life. Well, our creative young man, with heart pounding, follows his instincts and follows his true dream to perform torch songs on stage in the heart of New Orleans. His new identity is Tina Lake....
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Este volumen reúne cinco obras dramáticas tempranas de Matei Visniec, escritas en rumano antes de que se exiliara a Francia en 1987. Las tres primeras tienen como eje central una espera que alude, más o menos discretamente, a la Rumanía autoritaria en que fueron escritas, pero también indagan en lo mejor y lo peor del ser humano y en las paradojas que lo envuelven. En 'Se contrata payaso viejo', tres viejos amigos que han leído un mismo anuncio...
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"The Dead Stage — the period of time between completing the working draft of a stage play and placing it with an interested party." — Dan WeathererDan Weatherer, an author turned playwright, learned quickly that there are practices playwrights can implement to dramatically increase the appeal of their work.
Inside, you'll find advice that will enable you to better tailor your work to the needs of the theatre industry, without having to compromise...
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A short monologue.
Scene: the present day. It's nearly ten to midnight on Christmas Eve. A hospital radio studio at a medium-sized community hospital near Wigan. 68 year-old volunteer amateur broadcaster ROLAND GOOLE is finishing his program before the station frequency switches to BBC Radio 2 at midnight...
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The movie Bendra is about a young girl named Bendra Sky. She had been sexually abused since the age of ten until she was sixteen years old. She became pregnant and had a baby boy. Months after the baby was born, she decided to reveal the father to her best friend, Miss Pierre, who works at the children's department. However, the mother found out who the father was during a visit; at Miss Pierre's house. The DNA test was revealed.
11) Going Global
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With the globalization of business, American snack maker Boltz Foods is expanding into world markets and a nave American businessman whos never traveled abroad is selected to lead the way. Pursued by a Japanese competitor bent on sabotage, this comic adventure weaves in and out of different time- zones through a Japanese resort, Russian sauna, French restaurant, German barbershop, Westminster Abbey, Spanish bullring and the Tower of Babel. Going Global...
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A MOMENT ON THE CLOCK OF THE WORLD is an invitation to consider how we make the world, together. It collects the voices of people who respond to this invitation with their living lives and prolific work: artists, social justice practitioners, cultural critics and public intellectuals - Cornel West, Taylor Mac, Alisa Solomon, Robin D.G. Kelley and Laura Flanders among them - whose own inquiries intersected with that of the award-winning Foundry Theatre...
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Cheering and laughing throughout the audiences. You go! The audiences are screaming, cheering with the stomping of the feet throughout the auditorium. And the dancers of dance on fire are on stage, break dancing. Within seconds the boy dancers slide in front of the girls with their dance moves, pin down. As the audiences are jumping up and down screaming, " Go! " while some are screaming, dance on fire." At that moment, Kellisha steps in front of...
14) Musical Youth
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The next books from the AUTHOR are : NO KING NO PRESIDENT BEFORE THE PEOPLE (COMIC SOCIAL POLITICAL PLAY ) NO DRUGS NO SEXY WOMEN (COMIC SOCIAL PLAY) dr.fawzymasaoud@yahoo.com
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¿Por qué dos amigas no pueden tirar, por qué no tirar con los maridos o las mujeres de los amigos, por qué no desear a quien no nos desea, por qué no amar y dejarse amar sin condiciones, por qué no enamorar sin estar enamorado, por qué no dormir sin tirar, por qué no tirar sin dormir, por qué no tener una pareja no romántica o no sexual, por qué no amar a más de una persona? Ya lo hacemos, ahora dejémoslo ser.
Gabriela Wiener escribe...
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In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights – such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I. Haas, and Mark Harvey Levine, and by others less well known but equally terrific such as Sharai Bohannon, Suzanne Bailie, and Shirley King. The characters and situations portrayed are perfect for the kid actor. Some of the plays explore relatable tales of friendship and...
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This drama is intended primarily as a music drama and, more specifically, as an operetta, as it contains passages of very quick dialogue that are written to be spoken, not sung. I would compose music underscore for these in an operetta version. The dramas could also be staged a "straight" spoken play, with some specific musical episodes. Given the convergence that has taken place in media it is imperative that a writer takes a flexible attitude to...
18) Lysis
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Depuis des années, Lysis joue un double jeu: cadre haut placée dans un gros laboratoire pharmaceutique à la culture résolument patriarcale, elle est aussi une militante féministe qui attend son heure. Quand elle rend enfin publique une étude sur les risques liés à l'un des médicaments du laboratoire, la révolte éclate. Lysis et les autres membres de sa cellule déclarent une grève de la maternité, bientt suivie par des femmes du monde...
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Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre. Mattson explores the difference between traditional theatre and puppet theatre and notes the special characteristics of the various puppets. The important aspects of script writing are then addressed.
She considers the many general questions which must be answered by the playwright: the type of...
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Luces de bohemia, escrita en 1920, es una obra clave en la historia del teatro español y universal.
Su singularidad impidió que fuera escenificada hasta 1963 (en París) y, posteriormente, en Valencia de forma comercial (1970). El teatro español no supo comprender un texto que planteaba conflictos éticos, estéticos y técnicos de difícil representación. La obra es una denuncia moral, cultural, ideológica y estética de la sociedad española...
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