Author: Dominion Drama FestivalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Gentle Dragon : a One Act Play
Author: Dominion Drama FestivalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225577
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman’s entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.
Drama
Author: The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219204
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."
The Drama
Author: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811204170
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.
Hunting of the Last Dragon
Author: Sherryl JordanPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062459775
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The last of the great fire-breathing dragons has awakened. . . . Everyone thought all the dragons had been wiped out—until a fierce flying beast appears and leaves the village of Doran in flames. There is only one survivor: Jude, an ordinary man who never intended to be a hero. He'd rather avoid any danger, but a strange, strong-willed girl from a distant land has her own plans for hunting the last dragon. Can her courage and cunning help him conquer his fear in time to save their world from devastation? Sherryl Jordan's The Hunting of the Last Dragon is a gripping story of fantasy, courage, and romance.
The Dragon who Giggled
Author: Elizabeth McCormickPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573652066
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. Clothes for a summer hotel. The red devil battery sign
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212014
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams's full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes 6 and 7 contain Williams's collected shorter plays. Now available as a paperback, Volume 8 adds to the series four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams's life.
The Politics of Reputation
Author: Annette J. SaddikPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637722
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Author Annette J. Saddik researches Tennessee Williams' much-neglected later work (from 1961 to 1983), and argues that it deserves a central place in American experimental drama. Offering a new reading of Williams' career, she challenges the conventional wisdom that his later work represents a failure of his creative powers.