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Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & #3)
by Suzan-Lori Parks"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."--The New York Times"Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."--New YorkOffered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present.Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.
The Red Letter Plays
by Suzan-Lori Parks"In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with "a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.'"--Margo Jefferson, The New York TimesThe playwright who "has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way [John Heilpern, New York Observer and Vogue]," has written two haunting riffs on Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter: In the Blood and Fucking A.Hester La Negrita of In the Blood is an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children--"my treasures, my five joys"--who practices writing the alphabet to help herself "one day get a leg up. The letter A is as far as she gets. Hester Smith of Fucking A works the only job available--abortionist to the lower class, in order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son. Her branded A bleeds afresh every time a patient comes to see her.These are two mature, beautifully crafted, inventive and poetic plays by one of the most unique voices writing for the stage today.Suzan Lori-Parks is also the author of The America Play and Other Works and Venus, both published by TCG. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori ParksA darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including In the Blood and Venus. She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
Venus
by Suzan-Lori ParksSuzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death.
Forties and Fifties Fashion for the Stage: Patterns from Vintage Clothing (The Focal Press Costume Topics Series)
by Jessica ParrForties and Fifties Fashion for the Stage: with Patterns from Vintage Clothing provides instruction on how to recreate fashion from the 1940s and 1950s that withstands the vigorous demands of theatrical stage use. This book provides historical context for the clothing and features authentic patterns taken from real vintage pieces. Forties and Fifties Fashion for the Stage demonstrates how to construct a durable costume from scratch, and how to adjust patterns to fit an individual’s measurements. The book also contains a number of "How To Fake It" chapters with advice on thrifting and how to create period fashion using today’s clothing. Both men’s and women’s fashions and patterns are featured, including formal and casual wear.
Rendering Tips for the Costume Designer: Simple Steps for Better Drawing and Painting
by Jessica ParrRendering Tips for the Costume Designer: Simple Steps for Better Drawing and Painting is a guide for students and costume designers who want to improve their drawing, painting, and rendering skills. The book is divided into three sections – Drawing Tips, Painting Tips, and Linework Tips – and includes detailed step-by-step instructions for chapters such as "How to Draw Faces and Hair," "How to Draw Hands," and "How to Draw Feet and Shoes". This format allows readers to pick and choose which techniques to study, enabling them to focus on the areas that give them the most difficulty. Filled with practical information and over 100 illustrations, this reference guide can be used in conjunction with any figure drawing method or painting media. Within these pages, readers will find the answers to the most common rendering questions: Where do the shadows go? How do I make my figures look less stiff? How do I draw patterned fabric? Rendering Tips for the Costume Designer is an invaluable resource for students in Costume Rendering and Costume Design courses, along with professional costume designers looking to improve their rendering skills.
Playwriting For Dummies
by Angelo ParraThe easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financing your project, and incorporating professional insights on writing, there are plenty of ins and outs that every aspiring playwright needs to know. But where can you turn for guidance? Playwriting For Dummies helps any writer at any stage of the process hone their craft and create the most dramatic and effective pieces. Guides you through every process of playwriting?from soliloquies, church skits, and one act plays to big Broadway musicals Advice on moving your script to the public stage Guidance on navigating loopholes If you're an aspiring playwright looking to begin the process, or have already penned a masterpiece and need trusted advice to bring it into the spotlight, Playwriting For Dummies has you covered.
Pobre diablo: Cuentos Y Relatos De Valor En Tiempos De Angustia
by Pedro ParraBrillante relato en donde el bien y el mal conviven en situaciones jocosas e inesperadas. Cada día iba siendo mayor la necesidad de calor y luz por parte de Lucifer y sus huestes. De sus demonios, el que ocupaba el escalafón más bajo era el Chamuco, quien tenía que permanecer muy cerca del fuego y en un descuido su hermoso cuerpo terminó calcinado. Por lo que a partir de ese día, hacía uso de cuerpos ajenos que tomaba prestados por momentos. Lo mismo era un cerdo, que un león o un ser humano, pero lo único que era en realidad, era un pobre diablo. Con el fin de ganar almas para su causa y llevar al Infierno la mayor cantidad de seres humanos, todos los demonios tuvieron la oportunidad de escoger una zona geográfica y población a conquistar. Es por eso que el Chamuco escogió a San Cirilo, pueblo alejado de la mano de Dios, como decían sus habitantes. La tradición del pueblo se integró con diversos personajes. Con la melodía de la flauta del Chamuco los habitantes se ven tentados a caer en el pecado y a pasar por encima de las leyes y la moral. Lo que el Chamuco no sabe es que su conquista no es tarea sencilla y tiene que ser muy astuto para manipular a los habitantes que algunas veces son más maliciosos que él.
Other Side of the Game
by Amanda ParrisI don’t think you can expect society to change if you’re not ready to take the first step. In the 1970s Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove she’s committed enough to fight. Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering where he’s been, when a police officer stops them. In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy, strengthening their voices and demanding to be heard.
Gertrude and Alice
by Evalyn Parry Anna ChattertonVisiting the audience in the present day, Gertrude and Alice come to find out how history has treated them. The couple recounts stories of their forty-year relationship; of meetings with iconic artists and writers; and of Alice’s overwhelming, consuming devotion to Gertrude’s genius. Before they leave, they want to find out what has become of their artistic and cultural influence, and how their lives and work are—or are not—remembered.
Drawing the Surface of Dance: A Biography in Charts
by Annie-B ParsonSoloing on the page, choreographer Annie-B Parson rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materiality of each dance work she has made. These drawings serve as both maps of her pieces in the aftermath of performance, and a consideration of the elements of dance itself. Divided into three chapters, the book opens with diagrams of the objects in each of her pieces grouped into chart-structures. These charts reconsider her dances both from the perspective of the resonance of things, and for their abstract compositional properties. In chapter two, Parson delves into the choreographic mind, charting such ideas as an equality in the perception of objects and movement, and the poetics of a kinetic grammar. Charts of erasure, layering and language serve as dynamic and prismatic tools for dance making. Lastly, nodding to the history of chance operations in dance, Parson creates a generative card game of 52 compositional elements for artists of any medium to cut out and play as a method for creating new material. Within the duality of form and content, this book explores the meanings that form itself holds, and Parson's visual maps of choreographic ideas inspire new thinking around the shared elements underneath all art making.
Modern Dance in Germany and the United States: Crosscurrents and Influences (Choreography and Dance Studies Series)
by Isa Partsch-BergsohnFirst Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow through Character
by Neema ParviniShakespeare and Cognition.
Women in Theatre 2#3 (Contemporary Theatre Review Ser.)
by Julia PascalFirst Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice
by Judith Pascoe“The theatre scholar’s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe’s account of tracing the long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons. Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the methodology and the pleasures of historical research. ” —Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine During her lifetime (1755–1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like—an endless number of artists asked her to sit for portraits and sculptures—but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor’s voice actually sounded. In lively and engaging prose, Pascoe retraces her quixotic search, which leads her to enroll in a “Voice for Actors” class, to collect Lady Macbeth voice prints, and to listen more carefully to the soundscape of her life. Bringing together archival discoveries, sound recording history, and media theory, Pascoe shows how romantic poets’ preoccupation with voices is linked to a larger cultural anxiety about the voice’s ephemerality. The Sarah Siddons Audio Files contributes to a growing body of work on the fascinating history of sound and will engage a broad audience interested in how recording technology has altered human experience.
Philosophical Readings of Shakespeare
by Margherita PascucciThis book offers a close philosophical reading of King Lear and Timon of Athens which provides insights into the groundbreaking ontological discourse on poverty and money. Analysis of the discourse of poverty and the critique of money helps to read Shakespeare philosophically and opens new reflections on central questions of our own time.
You Will Be Found
by Benj Pasek Justin PaulA new book from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the award-winning songwriters of the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen.When Benj Pasek and Justin Paul set out to write a pivotal song for Dear Evan Hansen, a musical they had been working on for years, they knew it had to be big and emotional and genuine. So they tapped into their main character's loneliness and allowed him to sing his way out of it. The result was "You Will Be Found," a song that sets in motion a moment that goes viral in the world of the show and in turn helps Evan find connection.And then something happened in the world outside the show: Fans loved the song. It connected. It went viral. People who had never even seen Dear Evan Hansen found the song, and found comfort in its message of hope.This beautifully illustrated edition of the "You Will Be Found" lyrics is for them, and for anyone on the edge of a new chapter in life. It serves as a reminder to anyone who feels lost or uncertain that, as the song says, you are not alone.
Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course
by Anna PaskevskaFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ballet Beyond Tradition
by Anna PaskevskaFor nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths. Modern practitioners felt ballet was artificial and injurious to the body; ballet teachers felt that modern dancers lacked the rigorous discipline and control that comes only from years of progressive training. Ballet Beyond Tradition seeks to reconcile these age-old conflicts and bring a new awareness to ballet teachers of the importance of a holistic training regimen that draws on the best that modern dance and movement-studies offers.
Krise und Reform als bürgerliches Projekt: Institutioneller Wandel der Hoftheater (1780-1880) (Szene & Horizont. Theaterwissenschaftliche Studien #10)
by Sabine Päsler-EhlenDie Krise und Reform des Theaters wird nicht erst seit den 2000er Jahren kontrovers diskutiert – bereits im 19. Jahrhundert beherrschten Narrative und Aushandlungen um dessen krisenhaften und reformbedürftigen Zustand Diskurse, Ordnungen und Praktiken des Theaters. Die Studie geht der Frage nach, inwiefern das bürgerliche Projekt der Theaterreform nicht zugleich den Krisenmodus des Theaters selbst hervorgebracht hat. Detaillierte Analysen von Theaterreformschriften, Krisenszenarien der Theatergesetzgebung und Reformvorhaben der Regie-, Dramaturgie- und Probenpraxis zeichnen erstmals den institutionellen Wandel der Hoftheater mit einem Fokus auf Karlsruhe zwischen 1780 und 1880 nach.
El anillo perdido
by Marco Del PasquaAño 1856, durante las labores de mantenimiento del tejado de un monasterio romano se encuentra un pergamino que contiene un mensaje escrito por un hijo a su madre que se remonta a 1646 y que se refiere a un anillo de Pedro robado y escondido en un pueblo toscano. El teniente Luigi De Santis, de la Gendarmería Pontificia, viene encargado de redactar un informe sobre el hallazgo e, inmediatamente, despierta el interés de las altas jerarquías de la iglesia ya que podría tratarse de una supuesta reliquia del apóstol Pedro, que los papas buscaban en secreto desde hacía siglos. En los archivos se descubre documentos que refieren de un extraño robo de un anillo en 1565 durante la construcción de la Basílica de San Pedro. Objeto que luego, misteriosamente, desaparece y reaparece, una veintena de años más tarde, luego del encuentro casual entre el famoso abogado romano, de origen toscano, Alessandro Falciani y una chica de origen humilde, Gigetta, que está en posesión de este, y está intentando, por todos los medios, venderlo. El propio Papa Pío IX, a través del Secretario de Estado, Cardenal Antonelli, llevará a cabo una laboriosa investigación, pero el pontífice se encuentra en grandes dificultades, ya que los Estados Pontificios están amenazado por el expansionismo de los Saboya y, desde hace tiempo, circulan teorías filosóficas que podrían socavar la credibilidad misma de la iglesia católica. El cardenal Antonelli tiene una hija secreta, Laura, que vive bajo la tutela del gran maestro de la masonería romana y que se enamora del teniente De Santis. Amor que será correspondido por el oficial, pero al que se opone su verdadero padre, mientras tanto las pesquisas se verán obstaculizadas. Una novela cautivadora en la que se entrecruzan apasionadas historias de amor y violentos choques entre grandes poderes.
O Florim Negro
by Marco Del Pasqua Sandra SantosUmberto é um médico milanês, agora, prestes a se aposentar. Por pura curiosidade, investiga sobre a origem do seu sobrenome e descobre uma distante origem nobre toscana. O seu ancestral gibelino se refugiou em 1285 em um castelo em Siena com o bispo de Arezzo. Guglielmo, da família nobre Ubertini, instigou uma rebelião contra a cidade de Siena, que terminara meses depois, com um banho de sangue.O protagonista, fascinado pelas belezas do lugar, decide comprar uma casa nas vizinhanças do castelo, abandonado e inacessível por anos. Deixa Milão para se mudar e passar a velhice. Durante os trabalhos de restauração encontra, ao acaso, uma moeda antiga fiorentina, um florim de cobre, também chamado de florim negro, e Cesira, uma clarividente, percebeu que a moeda pertencia a um personagem muito importante: Dante Alighieri, e fora perdida em circunstâncias tumultuadas e dramáticas.O romance narra a história de Riccardo, um soldado de infantaria fiorentino, que ficara ao lado do jovem cavaleiro Dante Alighieri durante o terrível cerco ao castelo. A história do jovem Riccardo, no século XIII, se cruza com a de Umberto até os dias de hoje, para ambos, os eventos que acontecem naquele castelo mudarão a vida para sempre.Umberto, como Riccardo séculos antes, descobrirá o amor naquele mesmo lugar.Dois protagonistas de épocas diferentes, um paralelo entre eles, que desafiam o desconhecido, descobrindo novas e inesperadas paixões. Uma história aventurosa de homens, armas e amor, que se entrelaça entre a Idade Média e os dias atuais.
My Wide World of Sports
by Francesca Passudetti Liliane GrenierWelcome to the world of Playbooks® and the beginning of a wonderful role-play reading adventure! Playbook® stories are presented in a unique and colorful format and are read out loud by several readers like a play, without memorization, props, or a stage. <p><p>When you read a Playbook®, you and other readers bring the story to life and become the characters. As you read your part out loud, you will have fun expressing and acting like your character. You and the other readers will explore the story plot together and learn what will happen next. It's an exciting journey of discovery that pulls you into the story, and you'll want to read it out loud again and again!
How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn
by Nicole PasulkaA madcap adventure through a tight-knit world of drag performers making art and mayhem in the greatest city on earth.Ten years ago, an aimless coat check girl better known today as Merrie Cherry sweet-talked her boss into giving her $100 to host a drag show at a Brooklyn dive bar. Soon, kids like Aja were kicking their way into the scene, sneaking into clubs, pocketing their tips to help mom pay the mortgage, and sharing the stage with electric performers like Thorgy Thor and Sasha Velour. Because suddenly, in the biggest, brightest city in America, drag was offering young, broke, creative queer people a chance at real money—and for thousands or even millions of people to learn their names. In How You Get Famous, journalist Nicole Pasulka joyfully documents the rebirth of the New York drag scene, following a group of iconoclastic performers with undeniable charisma, talent, and a hell of a lot to prove. The result is a sweeping portrait of the 21st-century search for celebrity and community, as well as a chronicle of all the struggles, fights, and disappointments along the way. A rollicking account of the quest to make a living through an art form on the cusp of becoming a cultural phenomenon, How You Get Famous offers an unmissable romp through the gritty and glamorous world of Brooklyn drag.
Blonde and Other Distractions
by David PatersonA great collection of shorts by Paterson, these award winning one-acts are perfect for scene studies, two person auditions, secen nights and showcases, providing a wide variety of characters bith humorous and thought provoking. A kid-napping gone awry, two distant brothers try to reconnect, a pair of lovers face a daunting family holiday, a smarmy stockholder tries to charm his way into heaven, a friend is forced to bury a friend, and siblings seeking an amicable divorce completes this theatrical compilation.