Author: John OrlockPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874400045
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Short Plays for the Long Living
Author: John OrlockPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874400045
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Twenty-Five Short Plays
Author: Dana CoenPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635763
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In the fall of 2011, The Long Story Shorts One Act Festival was launched, featuring performances of short plays written by undergraduate students in the Writing for the Screen and Stage minor, an interdisciplinary, dramatic writing program housed in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marking the first five years of the festival, this anthology showcases works written to be performed in ten minutes with a small production budget. The festival gives students a unique opportunity to participate in a collaborative, developmental environment led by experienced faculty and professional actors and directors, and the plays included here rise to the occasion. Whether they are humorous, poignant, powerful, or provocative, they demonstrate why the short play form has become so popular; why this event has become one of the highlights of the university's cultural scene; and why the Writing for the Screen and Stage program has thrived.
Naomi in the Living Room & Other Short Plays
Author: Christopher DurangPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822214489
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
THE STORIES: NAOMI IN THE LIVING ROOM. Naomi, when visited by John and Johnna, her son and daughter-in-law, is alternately friendly and insulting. Johnna copes her best, but when John changes his clothes to look like Johnna, things start to unravel
The Scarecrow and Other Non-seasonal Plays
Author: John McTavishPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
Author: Thornton WilderPublisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361316
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.
Short Plays
Author: J. M. SyngePublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
J. M. Synge first gained fame as a playwright with two plays inspired by his time in the Aran Islands, “In the Shadow of the Glen” and “Riders to the Sea.” The first is set in County Wicklow, where a tramp arrives at an isolated cottage late at night as a dissatisfied woman is waking her dead husband. The second is set on the Aran Islands, where a woman waits for news of her son, who is missing at sea. This collection also includes “The Tinker’s Wedding,” a short comedy written about the time of the other two plays but not performed until much later for fear that its treatment of a rural Irish priest would scandalize Dublin’s pious audiences. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Happy Birthday, Girl
Author: Molly Ann MullinPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Candida
Author: George Bernard ShawPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Pals
Author: The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013
Author: William W. DemastesPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1480397210
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
(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.