Author: Jack FrakesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Final Dress Rehearsal. A Farce in One Act
Author: Jack FrakesFinal Dress Rehearsal, a Farce in One Act
Author: John Dean FrakesNoises Off
Author: Michael FraynPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350184861
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
“As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.” The Guardian A play-within-a-play following a touring theatre company who are rehearsing and performing a comedy called Nothing On, results in a riotous double-bill of comedic craft and dramatic skill. Hurtling along at breakneck speed it shows the backstage antics as they stumble through the dress-rehearsal at Weston-super-Mare, then on to a disastrous matinee at Ashton-under-Lyne, followed by a total meltdown in Stockton-on-Tees. Michael Frayn's irresistible, multi-award-winning backstage farce has been enjoyed by millions of people worldwide since it premiered in 1982 and has been hailed as one of the greatest British comedies ever written. Winner of both Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Comedy. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Blakemore.
Final Dress Rehearsal
Author: John Dean FrakesPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573601576
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The P.T.A. Magazine
Author: National Parent-teacher
Author: Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Bernard Shaw on Theater
Author: George Bernard ShawPublisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795346883
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A collection of critical writings on theater from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Man and Superman and Pygmalion. The Critical Shaw: On Theater is a comprehensive selection of essays and addresses about drama and theater by renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw. An outspoken critic of the melodramas and formulaic farces that comprised most of the popular theater in the late nineteenth century, Shaw relentlessly campaigned for audiences, actors, theater managers, and even government officials to take theater more seriously, to use the stage as a forum for representing complex real issues such as poverty, marriage and divorce laws, sexual attraction, gender equality, and political power, so that through seeing them acted out, audiences could better understand and address them when they left the theater. Shaw’s commitment to social reform through theater was matched by his expertise in the artistic and practical aspects of drama: whether he was reviewing productions, lecturing about acting, or schooling agents on royalties and copyright law, Shaw set a standard for intelligent professionalism that our own theaters might still aspire to and be measured against. The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw’s voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaw’s life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.
Basic Catalogue of Plays and Musicals
Author: Samuel French, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divided catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description