The Best American Short Plays 2008 2009

Author : Barbara Parisi
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1557837619
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Plays, 2008-2009 written by Barbara Parisi and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.

Author : Barbara Parisi
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN 13 : 1557839360
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2009-2010 written by Barbara Parisi and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to The Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play, 2) emerging playwrights whose record of productions indicate both initial achievement and continuing artistic productivity, and 3) talented new playwrights whose work may not have had much exposure but evidences promise for the future." 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 ( A Streetcar Named Desire ), Edward Albee ( Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ), Wendy Wasserstein ( The Heidi Chronicles ), David Mamet ( Glengarry Glen Ross ), and Horton Foote ( The Trip to Bountiful ). This volume is Barbara Parisi's fifth edition as series editor. The volumes of the new millennium include the work of playwrights Murray Schisgal, Adam Kraar, Theodore Mann, David Ives, and Mark Medoff, among others, and tackle complex human issues through diverse theatrical styles and a wide range of character perspectives.

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1480386138
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays written by William W. Demastes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEST MONOLOGUES FROM BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS VOLUME 1

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1495009564
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays written by William W. Demastes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEST MONOLOGUES FROM THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS VOLUME 2

Author : Barbara Parisi
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557837493
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Plays, 2007-2008 written by Barbara Parisi and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.

Author : Barbara Parisi
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1557837600
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 written by Barbara Parisi and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1495028887
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Really? Words can break spirits, destroy confidence. They can also build hope and incite great acts of heroism. Playwrights know this, and so do theater audiences. Otherwise, why go? Words matter and carry clout every bit as dangerous as a hammer or crowbar. This, too, playwrights know. The monologues in this volume are full of such blows, striking at our imaginations and our memories, generating responses such as joyful laughter or chilling surprise. Others squeeze us into worlds we've never experienced, or perhaps experienced at the furthest edges of memory and recollection. Still others may help us alter the way we see certain things, people, or beliefs. Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three is a collection of monologues drawn from the popular Best American Short Plays series, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today. Long or short, serious or not, excerpts or entireties, this collection abounds in speech acts that may trigger physical reactions and almost certainly will transform an attitude or two, drawing out lost memories, creating new ones, and definitely entertaining, engaging, amusing us all along the way.

Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317326571
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Director as Collaborator written by Robert Knopf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theater productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers, stage managers, and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theater, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises. New to the second edition: updated interviews, exercises, forms, and appendices new chapter on technology including digital research, previsualization and drafting programs, and web-sharing sites new chapter on devised and ensemble-based works new chapter on immersive theater, including material and exercises on environmental staging and audience–performer interaction

Author : Robert Benedetti
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478650265
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Action! written by Robert Benedetti and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple award-winning producer and leading teacher of acting Robert Benedetti offers a no-nonsense, detailed, and clearly structured approach to the fundamentals of acting for the camera. Benedetti uses the same approach he has employed in writing and teaching for over fifty years — defining underlying principles, presenting them in a logically sequential program of development, and providing experiential exercises to help future, as well as experienced, actors shine in film and television.

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1480397210
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013 written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their lives and surroundings from sunup to sundown, sundown to sunrise. We learn to follow rules of proper behavior and more than happily issue out advice to our friends who just can't get a handle on themselves. Restraint and order, after all, are the cornerstones of human society and civilization. The problem is that human nature bucks and bridles at every attempt to socialize and civilize. Shakespeare got it right when he penned the observation, "The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree." In those few words he has managed to capture precisely why it is so difficult to be human; if it were okay simply to let our hot tempers prevail, life would be so much easier. But cold decrees are what prevent us from self-destruction, and so we endure the struggle.