Author: Bennett CerfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Pocket of Modern American Plays
Author: Bennett CerfThe Pocket Book of Modern American Plays
Author: Bennett CerfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Modern American Plays
Author: George Pierce BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Modern American Plays
Author: Bennett Alfred CerfThe Pocket Book of Modern American Plays. Edited, and With an Introd. by Bennett Cerf
Author: Bennett CerfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
American Next Wave
Author: Stella Fawn RagsdalePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408173093
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A collection of four plays by new American writers curated from the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, New York. These plays represent the finest works developed by the Public Theater, addressing contemporary social preoccupations: race, class, heritage, economic hardship, family values and identity. The plays included are: Perish by Stella Fawn Ragsdale: when Porter's father kidnaps her son, she must go back to the woods of East Tennessee to find him, where she is distracted by a mysterious firebird. Textured with poetry and grit, this play follows the plight of women in Appalachia and the disappearance of the working class. The Hour of Feeling by Mona Mansour: in 1967, fuelled by a love of English Romantic poetry, a young Palestinian academic, Adham, and his new wife, Abir, take a trip to London, where he will deliver a career defining lecture. While the situation in his home "country" deteriorates and his marriage threatens to dissolve, Adham confronts his fear of failure and the reality that he may be an outsider no matter where he goes. Bethany by Laura Marks: when the going gets tough, the tough get going, and the going has gotten very tough indeed for Crystal. Her job is in jeopardy, her house has been repossessed and her daughter taken by social services. It's time for Crystal to get going. But in her effort to get her daughter back and put her life on the right track, Crystal is forced to question just how far she's willing to go to survive. Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: Black face, not on my doorstep, not today. Richard Patterson is not happy. The family of black actors that has moved in next door is rowdy, tacky, shameless, and uncouth. And they are not just invading his neighborhood-they're infiltrating his family, his sanity, and his entirely post-racial lifestyle. This wildly theatrical, explosive play on race is an unconventional comedy which uses minstrelsy both to explore the history of black theater and to confront tensions in 'post-racial' America.
Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre
Author: John GassnerModern American Plays
Author: G. P. BakerModern American Plays
Author: George P. BakerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330367865
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Excerpt from Modern American Plays: Collected With Introduction The plays here printed are not, of course, the only five which might have been selected. From the many possible American plays of the last ten years these five have been chosen because decided success has been theirs, and because today they are worthy of professional revival. There is, however, a third test which has excluded many plays otherwise desirable, - the selections made must show the greatest possible variety. Romance, played very successfully in the United States for a season or two, was revived by Miss Doris Keane in London in War time. Its "run" was over a thousand nights, one of the longest on record. The central situation, an unsophisticated young man infatuated with an actress, is undeniably not new. We have seen it in Nance Oldfield, and more recently in Barrie's Rosalind, indeed, in a dozen other plays. What lifts Romance free of triteness is just what produced its unusual success, the characterization of Mme. Cavallini. So inseparably is the part associated with Miss Keane, who first acted it, that it is impossible exactly to distinguish the contributions of the author and the actress to the final effect of perfect characterization. After all, the drama is a collaborative art, and no role - even Hamlet or Lear - is seen at its best till an actor of such sensitiveness and matured technique plays it that not merely what the text obviously says, but its slightest implications are revealed. In Mme. Cavallini, as played, author and actress worked in perfect accord. The heroine of Romance quickly wins, and thereafter holds, the sympathy of the audience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Nine Modern American Plays
Author: Barrett Harper ClarkPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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