The Beginning Of August And Other Plays

Author : Tom Donaghy
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137241
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of August and Other Plays written by Tom Donaghy and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four plays prove The Village Voice's acclaim that Tom Donaghy has "mastered the Chekhovian tactic of having people say everything except what's on their mind." From the story of a young man trying to find order in a world in which he's had an affair with another man days after his wife left him and their infant daughter, to the emotional undercurrents of quiet, hard-working families faced with the reality that the lives they had envisioned for themselves are vastly different than the ones they are living, The Beginning of August and Other Plays showcases Donaghy's exceptional ability to bring to the surface the emotional undercurrents of everyday people. "Tom Donaghy has that marvelous ability to be acutely funny and moving at the same time. Tom Donaghy's plays reveal a truth not only about good writing but why good playwriting reveals a complexity impossible in any other form. These are masterful works." -- Wendy Wasserstein, author of The Heidi Chronicles; "Donaghy is a genius with fragmentation, with details so small that it comes as a shock to discover how sufficient they really are. Like the wiry pins piercing a grenade's shell, his scenes have similar -- and far more dangerous -- energy." -- The Boston Globe; "Tom Donaghy's plays are tender and lyrical: he has an acute eye and a sharp ear. He explores the everyday lives of ordinary Americans and makes them glow. His work is often moving and always beautiful." -- Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater.

Author : Tom Donaghy
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822217862
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of August written by Tom Donaghy and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST is the story of Jackie, a man whose wife has abruptly and mysteriously left him and their infant daughter. Confounded by his wife's unexplained absence and unable to pay for daycare, Jackie accepts the free servic

Author : Laurence Admiral Glasco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978828479
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August Wilson written by Laurence Admiral Glasco and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802133076
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Plays written by Václav Havel and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the first fully corrected English version of The Memorandum--the play that won Havel the Obie for Best Foreign Play in 1968.

Author : Harry J. Elam
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472021842
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson written by Harry J. Elam and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).

Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays by August Strindberg, Fourth Series written by August Strindberg and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plays by August Strindberg, Fourth Series by August Strindberg is a continuation of Strindberg's series of plays, showcasing his unique approach to drama, character development, and storytelling. This series further cements Strindberg's position as a master playwright, offering readers a deep dive into human emotions and relationships.

Author : Shamal Abu-Baker Hussein
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477247025
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of Man in Selected Plays of August Wilson written by Shamal Abu-Baker Hussein and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson's approach can be seen as a communal romanticism, dealing with ordinary people, language, and problems, giving the priority to the feeling and human dignity over logic, power and money, putting freedom and equity as a pivotal concern, almost presenting women and children as victims, and highlighting the importance of heritage, identity, and culture. As his self-revision message, all those three plays demonstrate scenes of black self-review, showing the blacks' part of responsibility in the situation they live in. It is a project of self-rehabilitation for the blacks. Since American society is a multicultural spectrum, there is not any certain legibly ascribed American identity. That is why Wilson does not submit to the claims of the dominant cultural trend by some white critics like Brustein. Wilson confidently presents the blacks' identity typified with self-fulfilment and contribution to the American culture, as his alternative contributory image of man against the white dominant models, or the violent black ones.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307827771
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caligula and Three Other Plays written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also includes The Misunderstanding, State of Siege, and The Just Assassins. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.

Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146559518X
Total Pages : 1526 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Plays of August Strindberg written by August Strindberg and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447487516
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays by August Strindberg: There Are Crimes and Crimes; Miss Julia; The Stronger; Creditors; Pariah written by August Strindberg and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains five plays by Johan Strindberg, including ‘There Are Crimes and Crimes’, ‘Miss Julie’, ‘The Stronger’, ‘Creditors’, and ‘Pariah’. Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist. Contents include: ‘Introduction To “There Are Crimes And Crimes’, ‘There Are Crimes And Crimes’, ‘Introduction To "Miss Julia"’, ‘Author's Preface’, ‘Miss Julia’, ‘Introduction To "The Stronger"’, ‘The Stronger’, ‘Introduction To "Creditors"’, ‘Creditors’, ‘Introduction To "Pariah"’, and ‘Pariah’. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.