The Designated Mourner

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366567
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Designated Mourner by : Wallace Shawn

Download or read book The Designated Mourner written by Wallace Shawn and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work in the writings of Wallace Shawn.

Grasses of a Thousand Colors

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822230984
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Grasses of a Thousand Colors by : Wallace Shawn

Download or read book Grasses of a Thousand Colors written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shawn's most outlandish work to date, this disturbing and anomalously beautiful play explores the role of human beings in nature and the role of nature in human beings, sexuality being, as Shawn says, "nature's most obvious footprint in the human soul." The play's central character is a doctor who figures out how to rejigger the metabolism of animals. This discovery has unexpected consequences. The play tells a story about the doctor, his wife, and his lovers that is also a story about the planet we live on.

Aunt Dan and Lemon

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822200765
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Aunt Dan and Lemon by : Wallace Shawn

Download or read book Aunt Dan and Lemon written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action begins in the London flat of Lenora (Lemon), a rather frail, introspective young woman who tells us, with a chilling calm, why she rather admires the Nazis for their refreshing lack of hypocrisy, and who then, in a series of

Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 155936663X
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts by : Wallace Shawn

Download or read book Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts written by Wallace Shawn and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two early plays by the noted writer and actor Wallace Shawn.

Designated Mourner

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Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770905340
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Designated Mourner by : Catherine Owen

Download or read book Designated Mourner written by Catherine Owen and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, lyrical, and original collection from an award-winning poet Designated Mourner is a collection of elegies for an unconventional spouse and artistic collaborator, lost to addiction at a young age. These poems keen on the page, tracing tenderness and sorrow while raging against his night. Well crafted and intimate, Designated Mourner engages with a range of forms. It is timely as grief is a misunderstood and often shunned emotion in North American society, as is drug addiction. The poems allow emotion while never losing their aural power.

The Fever

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822203988
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fever written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The nameless narrator of this blistering monologue lies ill and alone in a dreary hotel room in a poverty-stricken country. A political execution is about to take place beneath his window. Far from the glib comforts of his own life, he s

Essays

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Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608460037
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays written by Wallace Shawn and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of “deceptively simple, profoundly thoughtful, fiercely honest” essays on art, life, and politics by the acclaimed actor and playwright (Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn). Whether writing about the genesis of his plays, such as Aunt Dan and Lemon; discussing how the privileged world of arts and letters takes for granted the people who serve our food and deliver our mail; describing his upbringing in the sheltered world of Manhattan’s cultural elite; or engaging in a fascinating interview with Noam Chomsky, Wallace Shawn has a unique ability to step back from the appearance of things to explore their deeper social meanings. In these essays, Shawn grasps the unpleasant contradictions of modern life and challenges us to look at our own behavior in a more honest light. He also finds the pathos in the political and personal challenges of everyday life. With the same sharp wit and remarkable attention to detail that he brings to his critically acclaimed plays, Shawn invites us to look at the world with new eyes, the better to understand—and change it. “Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality . . . politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not) . . . It’s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind.” —O Magazine “Lovely, hilarious and seriously thought provoking, I enjoyed it tremendously.” —Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

This Is Not My Memoir

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374713278
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis This Is Not My Memoir by : André Gregory

Download or read book This Is Not My Memoir written by André Gregory and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with André This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. This is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between Gregory and Todd London who create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?

Night Thoughts

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Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608468135
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Thoughts written by Wallace Shawn and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “acerbic yet compassionate” meditation on humanity by the acclaimed actor and playwright offers “curiosity, thoughtfulness, sharp logic, deep emotion” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Beloved actor and Obie Award–winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on civilization and its discontents for decades. Now, having recently passed the age of seventy and watched Donald Trump claim the presidency, he offers a late-stage critique of his species, which he sees as being divided between the lucky and the unlucky. In Night Thoughts, Shawn takes the lucky—himself included—to task for their complacency while offering fascinating reflections on “civilization, morality, Beethoven, 11th-century Japanese court poetry, and his hopes for a better world, among other topics” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Evening at The Talk House

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571328148
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Evening at The Talk House by : Wallace Shawn

Download or read book Evening at The Talk House written by Wallace Shawn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly Nellie, there's the same genteel atmosphere, familiar drinks, unchanging special snacks. But the era of Walter Barclay is long gone. A playwright, a composer, an actress. The possibility of a pleasant night. Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2015.