Emily Mann

Author : Alexis Greene
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493060333
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emily Mann written by Alexis Greene and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater is the story of a remarkable American playwright, director, and artistic director. It is the story of a woman who defied the American theater's sexism, a traumatic assault, and illness to create unique documentary plays and to lead the McCarter Theatre Center, for thirty seasons, to a place of national recognition. The book traces and describes Emily Mann's family life; her coming-of-age in Chicago during the exuberant, rebellious, and often violent 1960s; how sexual violence touched her personally; and how she fell in love with theater and began learning her craft at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while a student at Radcliffe. Mann's evolution as a professional director and playwright is explored, first at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she received an MFA from the University of Minnesota, then on and off Broadway and at regional theaters. Mann's leadership of the McCarter is examined, along with her battles to overcome multiple sclerosis and to conquer—personally and artistically—the memories of the violence she experienced when a teenager. Finally, the book discusses her retirement from the McCarter, while amplifying her ongoing journey as a theater artist of sensitivity and originality. Mann's many awards include the 2015 Margo Jones Award, the 2019 Visionary Leadership Award from Theatre Communications Group, and the 2020 Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2019, she was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater.

Author : Emily Mann
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361170
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Testimonies written by Emily Mann and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major collection by playwright Emily Mann contains four powerful docudramas. Based on extensive interviews of real people's experiences, these plays explore various moral issues and questions that still resonate in America today. Annulla: An Autobiography is a solo piece featuring the reflections of an elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by pretending to by Aryan. Jerry Talmer of the New York Post calls Annulla "one bangup 90 minutes of theatre...I don't know when I've been stimulated as much by anything on the living stage." Still Life is composed of interviews with a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD, the pregnant wife he physically and emotionally abuses, and the mistress who finds herself entranced by his passion and violence. This Obie Award-winning play is "a powerful affair, full of passion and viability...Mann offers no easy answers or pat solutions, she simply invites us into these three characters' lives" (Los Angeles Times). Execution of Justice follows the trial of the former policeman who shot San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1979. Called "thought-provoking...a taut courtroom drama" (New York Times), Execution of Justice "is theatre reasserting its claim on the country's moral conscience" (Washington Post). Greensboro: A Requiem is "a particularly all-American tragedy" (New York Times) as Mann interviews those involved in the largely unreported 1979 massacre of unarmed demonstrators by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Greensboro police force, and FBI. Forbes calls Greensboro "a provocation, a potent expos of the 'less-than-human thing' which fuels the politics of hate and injustice in America."

Author : Emily Mann
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573690020
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Execution of Justice written by Emily Mann and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This docudrama on the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected public official in the country, is based on court transcripts and public record dramatising the trial of this controversial case. Focus is on accused killer Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor and on the jury which chose to convict him not of cold-blooded murder but manslaughter, which became known as the notorious "Twinkie defense."

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410347818
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Emily Mann's "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Emily Mann's "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Emily Mann
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 9781559369602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gloria written by Emily Mann and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mann's vital new biographical play based on the life of feminist and activist Gloria Steinem is a timely work that shows how Steinem's leadership and dedication to conversation as a catalyst for change continues to offer a vital path forward in our present time.

Author : Emily Mann
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458781356
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Packard written by Emily Mann and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Mann is one of our most urgently engaging, provocative and significant American playwrights.'' - Joyce Carol Oates ''Elizabeth Packard emerges as a vibrant, passionate force of nature.'' - The New York Times Illinois, 1861; Without proof of insanity, Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum. Based on historical events, Emily Mann's play tells of one woman's struggle to right a system gone wrong in this winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. Emily Mann is a playwright and director, now in her nineteenth season as artistic director of McCarter Theatre. Her award-winning plays have been produced throughout the world.

Author : Emily Mann
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 155936923X
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gloria: A Life (TCG Edition) written by Emily Mann and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gloria: A Life is a unique, deeply moving performance created in the hopeful, conversational spirit of its extraordinary subject.” —Sara Holdren, New York Magazine’s Vulture “One part theater, one part consciousness-raising group therapy session, Gloria: A Life offers an experience that promises to be a more intimate recollection of Steinem’s journey, not only because it’s been singularly shaped by the hands of women.” —Noor Brara, Vogue Five decades after Gloria Steinem began raising her voice for equality and championing the voices of others, she remains a leader of the American feminist movement. Emily Mann’s new play traces the progress of Steinem’s extraordinary life, from her undercover Playboy Bunny exposé in the 1960s, through her founding of Ms. Magazine in the 1970s, to her activism in today’s women’s movement.

Author : Ingmar Bergman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822233924
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scenes from a Marriage written by Ingmar Bergman and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Emily Mann’s highly theatrical adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s popular 1974 film Scenes from a Marriage, audiences are invited into an intimate stage space to collectively experience the human politics of a relationship, through all the stages of life—from youth to middle age to maturity. Mann’s adaptation illuminates the universal themes of love, identity, and vulnerability that are at the heart of Bergman’s timeless film, exposing how the universal is truly revealed through the specific.

Author : Emily Mann
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 9781559365635
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoodwinked (TCG Edition) written by Emily Mann and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documentary play that explores the impact of radical Islam in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Author : S. Lillian Kremer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415929844
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index written by S. Lillian Kremer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "This encyclopedia offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the important writers and works that form the literature about the Holocaust and its consequences. The collection is alphabetically arranged and consists of high-quality biocritical essays on 309 writers who are first-, second-, and third-generation survivors or important thinkers and spokespersons on the Holocaust. An essential literary reference work, this publication is an important addition to the genre and a solid value for public and academic libraries."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004