Fo Plays 2

Author : Dario Fo
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780413640505
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Couple ; An Ordinary Day written by Dario Fo and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two plays written by the Italian farceur, Dario Fo, in conjunction with his wife and fellow-performer. Both plays start with the breakdown of a relationship and deal with the fate of women in a society in which both the social system in which they live and its dominant ideology are shaped by men.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Lane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307487342
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Women written by Eric Lane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, "Where are all the great roles for women?" The roles are right here, in this magnificently diverse collection of plays–full-lenghts, one-acts, and monologues--with mainly female casts, which represent the answer to any actress's prayer. The editors of the groundbreaking anthology Plays for Actresses have once again gathered an abundance of strong female roles in a selection of works by award-winning authors and cutting-edge newer voices, from Wendy Wasserstein and Christopher Durang to Claudia Shear, Eve Ensler, and Margaret Edson. The characters who populate these seven full-length plays, four ten-minute plays, and eleven monologues include a vivid cross-section of female experience: girl gang members, Southern debutantes, pilots, teachers, traffic reporters, and rebel teenagers. From a hilarious take on Medea to a taboo-breaking excerpt from The Vagina Monologues to a moving scene from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, the plays in Leading Women are complex, funny, tragic, and always original--and a boon for talented actresses everywhere. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Matthew Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474276490
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) written by Matthew Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating. In this, the second volume of a major new survey of the tragic genre, Matthew Wright offers an authoritative critical guide to the lost plays of the three best-known tragedians. (The other Greek tragedians and their work are discussed in Volume 1: Neglected Authors.) What can we learn about the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides from fragments and other types of evidence? How can we develop strategies or methodologies for 'reading' lost plays? Why were certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared from view? Would we have a different impression of the work of these classic authors – or of Greek tragedy as a whole – if a different selection of plays had survived? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly developments and new editions of the fragments, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first time.

Author : Federico Garcia Lorca
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408149125
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorca Plays: 2 written by Federico Garcia Lorca and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín use an old story of the old man married to the young wife to expose the social attitudes of a traditional Spain bound by rigid concepts of decency, reputation and honour. The Puppet Play deploys the puppets' uninhibited and passionate emotions as a direct attack on the 'tedious triviality' of commercial theatre. The Butterfly's Evil Spell explores the themes of love and frustration, while When Five Years Pass is a surrealist play with references to the film Un Chien Andalou [The Andalusian Dog] by Lorca's friend and collaborator, Luis Buñuel.

Author : Sarah Daniels
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472517547
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniels Plays: 2 written by Sarah Daniels and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Daniels is "a writer with a natural talent for disturbance" (Observer) Set in the gutting sheds of the slaughterhouse at the Cattle Market in late Victorian Deptford, The Gut Girls shows how the lives of the girls are changed when their work is made illegal - "Regarded as little better than whores by their contemporaries the gut girls are...a boisterous, beer-swilling, strong-minded bunch, handy with a knife both in the gutting shed and outside it, defiantly independent in attitude and scornful of the illusion of male supremacy." Malcolm Hay (Time Out). Beside Herself is the first of three plays in this volume that deal with women and madness - "a dramatic analogue of a contemporary social tragedy which exists on a scale we are only just beginning to comprehend" (Observer); Head-Rot Holiday commissioned by Clean Break theatre company for ex-offenders, portrays the fate of women detained in special hospitals, a euphemism for an institution for the "criminally insane" - "There is a fine, hard humour, as well as compassion, in the way Head-Rot Holdiay examines the contradictions entangling these women's lives"; The Madness of Esmé and Shaz is "A weird and wondrous black comedy." (Spectator)

Author : April De Angelis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571378242
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book April De Angelis Plays 2 written by April De Angelis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April de Angelis's second collection covers six plays written between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze! Jumpy 'The funniest new play the West End has seen in ages. It's not only funny, it's painfully acute; and its wit is of a piece with its insight.' - Daily Telegraph The Village 'A great piece of storytelling . . . flat-out wonderful.' - The Times A Laughing Matter 'De Angelis's writing is even funnier than it is stimulating. . Comedy needn't be soft and comforting. It can be mischievous and subversive. You see the bind in which Garrick finds himself, trapped as he is by the economic, social and moral pressures. It's a bind his descendants know even today. I haven't seen it dramatised before with such infectious brio.' - The Times Rune 'A gorgeous little nugget of a show in which a bored teenager on a school trip to see the hoard at the Potteries Museum suddenly discovers a power within her when she gets to hold a piece of it.' - Guardian Extinct 'Builds its drama with its own gripping truth ... Necessary and urgent.' - Guardian Gin Craze! 'It's terrifically vivid and exciting. . A Brechtian message delivered with the most glorious, full-throated ebullience: an intoxicating show that leaves your head spinning, your spirit soaring and a fire in your belly.' - The Times

Author : Craig S. Walker
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551115824
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Volume 2: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Craig S. Walker and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre is a chronological presentation of 43 plays in two volumes, ranging from the ancient theatre world to the present day. Each chapter focuses on a specific period and begins with an insightful introduction sketching the historical and theatrical landscape of that period. Contextualization for each play is provided through a thorough account of the literary and dramatic background of the play along with clear and comprehensive annotation. In addition, the editors have provided a glossary of terms used in the anthology to better equip students with a vocabulary for discussing the world of the stage.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collection of Plays Ca. 1870-1914 written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472536673
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Williams Plays: 2 written by Roy Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second collection of plays by the award-winning young British playwright Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads: Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose against Germany at football Clubland: Ben is married to Denise but on the pull, Kenny's looking for someone who's "right", Ade's with Sandra but playing the field and Nate's a proud father, in this urban drama of race and sexual politics in West London. The Gift: Since her childhood, when she left Jamaica for England, Heather's sister has claimed to have the gift of raising spirits from the dead. When her son is murdered, Heather returns to Jamaica and begs her sister to bring him back to life.Winner of the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award, 2001 - shortlisted for Best Play Award 2003 "Williams' writing snaps and crackles, his characters burst with life, emotion and contradiction" Guardian "Roy Williams shows himself to be a sassy, sophisticated diviner of the human heart" Evening Standard