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Author: Michael Frayn Publisher: ISBN: 9781941147504 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 0
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Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, 'the funniest farce ever written' (New York Times). Thirty snatches of people talking. To each other, to the world at large, to themselves, to no one. Heard, unheard. Overheard, half-heard. On telephones, into microphones. In a crypt, an airport, an orchestra pit. These tiny plays are offered here for performance in the smallest theatre in the world: the theatre of your own imagination. The scripts are provided. Everything else - casting, set design, ice cream sales - is up to you . . . 'Michael Frayn is the most philosophical comic writer - and the most comic philosophical writer - of our time.' Michael Arditti, Daily Mail
Author: Michael Frayn Publisher: ISBN: 9781941147504 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, 'the funniest farce ever written' (New York Times). Thirty snatches of people talking. To each other, to the world at large, to themselves, to no one. Heard, unheard. Overheard, half-heard. On telephones, into microphones. In a crypt, an airport, an orchestra pit. These tiny plays are offered here for performance in the smallest theatre in the world: the theatre of your own imagination. The scripts are provided. Everything else - casting, set design, ice cream sales - is up to you . . . 'Michael Frayn is the most philosophical comic writer - and the most comic philosophical writer - of our time.' Michael Arditti, Daily Mail
Author: Paul Fleischman Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763646016 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 41
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Follows a girl's perusal of her great-grandfather's collection of matchboxes and small curios that document his poignant immigration journey from Italy to a new country.
Author: M. Frayn Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 9780571323944 Category : Languages : en Pages : 304
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'Matchbox Theatre' presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the world - the theatre of your own imagination.
Author: Telory D Arendell Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000739090 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 369
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This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice. As both a founding member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theater Company and a Professor, Telory Arendell begins this journey with a brief history of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and Living Newspapers through Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble and Joe Chaikin’s Open Theatre to the racially inflected commentary of Luis Valdez’s Teatro Campesino and Ariane Mnouchkine’s collaboration with Théâtre de Soleil. This book explores the impact of devised theatre on social practice and analyzes Goat Island’s use of Pina Bausch’s gestural movement, Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed in Giving Voice, Anna Deavere Smith’s devised envelope for Verbatim Theatre, The Tectonic Theatre Project’s moment work, Teya Sepinuck’s Theatre of Witness, Pig Iron’s use of Lecoq mime to build complex physical theatre scripts, and The Riot Group’s musical arrangement of collaborative devised text. Included are a foreword by Allen J. Kuharski and three devised plays by Theatre of Witness, Pig Iron, and The Riot Group. Replete with interviews from the initial Pig Iron collaborators on subjects of writing, directing, choreographing, teaching, and developing a pedagogical platform that supports devised theatre.
Author: J. B. Priestley Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786820188 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 125
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The Kettlewells are a dysfunctional family. Richard is a charming old Etonian whose business ventures are failing. Over a crowded weekend, his daughter Pamela, whom he hardly knows, returns from Russia, a passionate communist; his ex-wife and mistress both unexpectedly arrive; and his butler has a big win at the races. The Roundabout is a funny, touching, highly perceptive look at an England in the 1930s, when it seemed, just possibly, as if the social order might be changing.
Author: Eugene O'Hare Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350130036 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 104
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Don't know where I stand with the weatherman these days. One day it's all warm and breezy and the next old Jack Frost comes to take the skin off your back. A twelve year old Romanian girl is trafficked into London. Her captor, a city landlord known as Dollar, entrusts her to the care of his tenants O'Rourke and Beezer; a pair of down-and-out bachelors sharing lodgings in the East End. But with no reliable details of the girl's past, vague speculation as to the reason for her arrival and no common language with which to communicate, for how long and at what price can the involvement of her new guardians be bought? Eugene O'Hare's debut black comedy shines a light on complicity, power and the secrets and lies woven behind closed doors and examines the no go lines that are crossed when it's too dangerous to run away.
Author: Robert Burgess Publisher: GMC Publications ISBN: 9781861081100 Category : Paper work Languages : en Pages : 0
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Discover the magical world of toy theatres-- a unique gift idea for family and friends. Children and adults alike will be enchanted by the 10 designs for exquisite miniature theatres-- many of them of the Victorian era. Projects include a Folding Theatre in a Box, a Pop-up Theatre Greeting Card, a Punch and Judy Booth, and a Bali Shadow Theatre-- all made with paper and cardboard and a minimum of special tools or expensive materials. Basic papercraft skills necessary to create these tiny wonders, such as painting, gilding, rubber stamping, and tea staining, are described in detail. All the templates and decorative images needed to make the theatres are found among the many beautiful color photographs and can easily be photocopied.
Author: Michael McLean Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786821141 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 83
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‘I told you it’d happen. In this town. It’d come to fruition. It’s like rivers of blood with Scousers’ Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Haunted by memories of his closest friend Emlyn, Paul returns to the ashes of his childhood home in a Liverpool overspill estate and implores his mother to leave it all behind. Envisaged by the government as "social utopias" in the 1960s, towns like Skelmersdale promised visionary housing and opportunities for thousands of Liverpudlians uprooted from their overcrowded city. Traversing a 30-year friendship, Years of Sunlight is a haunting cry for those left feeling shipwrecked from their old communities and abandoned by the post-industrial political system.
Author: Eugene O'Hare Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350129992 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 112
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London is becoming an alien landscape to Sydney Stock; a man who has lived for over fifty years cooped with his mother Nell in her grubby East End home. Theirs is a relationship of mutually assured destruction where the ghosts of the past continue to stalk and accuse. As the twisted game around family inheritance reaches breaking point, Irish care worker Marion Fee finds herself an unwitting pawn being played from both sides. At the centre of Eugene O'Hare's second full-length black comedy is a family's obsession with versions of the past and a paranoia about a future in a city which no longer feels like home. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Park Theatre, London in November 2019.
Author: Brian Mullin Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350011479 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 114
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One wants to restore the image of the Church, gain back the community's trust. And as you know, this part of town has long been resistant to social progress. Otherwise Sister Bernadine wouldn't need to work so hard. Sister Bernie D'Amato doesn't look like a nun. In an oversize Bob Marley T-shirt, she smokes pot, befriends local gangs and passes out condoms to the Ukrainian prostitutes who cruise around their New Jersey slum. When the women's shelter Bernie runs comes under threat from a property developer, she vows to fight back, and recruits a teenage X-Factor wannabe and an ageing ex-nun to help. But as pressure mounts on the shelter to take their pay-out and close down, tensions start to mount in a community struggling to survive. We Wait In Joyful Hope is a funny and touching exploration of religion and capitalism in contemporary USA. Theatre503 Writer in Residence Brian Mullin delivers a sparkling 'state of the nation' debut drama. This edition is published to coincide with the play's world premiere at Theatre503, London, in May 2016.
Author: Michael Frayn
Author: Michael Frayn
Author: Paul Fleischman
Author: M. Frayn
Author: Telory D Arendell
Author: J. B. Priestley
Author: Eugene O'Hare
Author: Robert Burgess
Author: Michael McLean
Author: Eugene O'Hare
Author: Brian Mullin