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A Yorkshire Tragedy
by ShakespeareThe plot of the play is based on the biographical account of Walter Calverley of Calverley Hall, Yorkshire, who was executed on 5 August 1605 for murdering two of his children and stabbing his wife. <P> <P> The crimes were a well-known scandal of the day; a pamphlet on the case was issued in June 1605, with a ballad following in July. The chronicler John Stow reported the case in his Annals.[1][2] The murders were also dramatised in a play titled The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (1607), by George Wilkins. Scholars have disagreed on the relationship between Wilkins's play and A Yorkshire Tragedy; some of have seen one play as a source for the other, or even the work of the same author, while others regard the two dramas as essentially separate works.[3]
A Young Man's Passage
by Julian ClaryThis is Julian Clary's story, in his own words - the tale of an awkward schoolboy who became a huge worldwide success on stage and screen.After a sheltered suburban upbringing, Julian was sent to St Benedict's, where beatings from 'holy' men gave him some brutal life lessons, and other 'unholy' boys his first awakenings of sexuality. He had just one true friend and ally, Nick - to his other school peers, Julian's aloof demeanour made him an enigma or simply a figure of ridicule. In school he was just another pained adolescent, but inside Julian was a new Jean Genet or Quentin Crisp bursting to get out.Leaving St Benedict's thankfully behind him, Julian went on to college where he found his true vocation as an entertainer with a peculiar comic brand of smut and glamour. At the same time, he was finding as much sex as he could, sometimes with remarkably less-than-glamorous characters.Periods in community theatre and the singing telegram industry followed before Julian hit the big time with cabaret co-star Fanny the Wonder Dog as The Joan Collins Fan Club. Soon, the world was his oyster. But fame came at a price, as Julian struggled not only with the reality of being a high-profile gay man in the 1980s but also the pain of losing his lover to terminal illness.Far more than just another celebrity autobiography or 'funny book', this is a touching, beautifully written and wryly witty account of a unique progression from shy child to comedy icon.
A Younger Ten: Writing the Ten-Minute Play
by Gary GarrisonIn A Younger Ten: Writing the Ten-Minute Play, Gary Garrison distills the playwriting guidance pioneered in his widely consulted Perfect Ten (2001) and A More Perfect Ten (2008), here recast for the needs of aspiring ten-minute playwrights at the high school level. Not satisfied with merely telling how such a play is crafted, Garrison includes a new all-star lineup of eight complete ten-minute plays by a variety of playwrights, emerging as well as established, that can serve as models for writers just starting out in the genre.
A dama de ferro: a história secreta de James Barry
by Juan Carlos Arjona Ollero Sátia MariniInglaterra, princípios do século XIX. O império encontra-se no seu apogeu. Em uma sociedade regida pela belicosa ideologia masculina não há espaço para as mulheres. É quando a jovem Margarete, farta de sentir-se relegada em um mundo que decidiu ignorar todas as mulheres, propõe-se a cumprir um sonho a todo custo: estudar medicina e tornar-se cirurgiã. Sua aventura está cheia de peripécias e façanhas incríveis que a levam até mesmo para além dos confins do território imperial, travando uma cruzada para salvar vidas de todos aqueles que estão por perto. A dama de ferro enfrentará a batalha mais cruel contra o seu pior inimigo, a dicotomia entre aceitar sua verdadeira identidade ou servir sob a máscara de James Barry para manter-se fiel aos seus ideais. Descubra a verdadeira história de uma mulher que chegou a ser o “Cavalheiro Perfeito”.
A filha do Sheikh e o Criado
by Mohmmed Alsofi Thayller BarpE se o amor colide com os costumes e hábitos da sociedade? E se as classes sociais fpssem um fantasma assassinando os sentimentos de amor que fluem entre as pessoas? E se os conflitos entre eles fossem violentos, os eventos são conectados e você como um leitor de suspense irá querer saber o resultado desse conflito entre a força do Bem e a força do Mal? Conheça os eventos de suspense e os detalhes, e viva com os heróis de (A filha do Sheikh e o Criado) um romance que nos separa de nossa realidade até que você termine seu último cápitulo e jogue embaixo dos tapetes. Esse romance foi escrito perfeitamente para fazer o leitor se tornar outro humano, adicionando valores positivos para sua vida. Nem todos romances atraem os leitores as profundezas da vida com as felicidades e tristezas, mas (A filha do Sheikh e o Criado) é um romance único com uma narração atrativa, seus personagens têm diferentes naturezas, os eventos são conectador e têm pequenos detalhos que você não pode perder ou não se importar, é um romance que te coloca no mundo e faz de você um dos heróis, compartilhando momentos de sentimentos extremos. O romance (A filha do Sheikh e o Criado) varia entre as experiências, as batidas da vida e os conflitos humanos, é um romance que tem uma imaginação fértil, o romancista registra o sofrimento que muitas familias vivem em um duro conflito entre os sentimentos de amor e os hábitos sociais herdados, revela muitos acontecimentos dos bastidores por trás dos principais eventos e os relacionamentos interconectados de uma imagem social sempre doente no coração de quem tem tristeza e morte. (A filha do Sheikh e o Criado) é a linha entre dois lados do suspense do livro, o leitor e o escritor estão famintos para ler até a última linha.
A los pies del David
by Rossella ScatamburloSomos el fruto de nuestras relaciones. Nuestro yo es la suma de experiencias, contacto con los demás, lecturas, recuerdos. Cuando nos miramos al espejo, vemos un reflejo efímero de nosotros mismos, ligado a un hic et nunc irrepetible, mientras que, un instante después, no nos parecemos a nosotros mismos porque todo con lo que estamos en contacto nos transforma y nosotros transformamos aquello con lo que nos relacionamos. Así pues, también los objetos que tocamos ya no son los mismos tras haber dejado nuestras huellas como marcas estratificadas e indelebles. En esto pensaba Beatrice Verdi al concluir su proyecto de fin de carrera y después de profundizar en el síndrome de Stendhal. Su investigación la había puesto en contacto con el fascinante Carlo Regis, pero también con el diabólico Stefano Corona, auxiliar de sala de la Galería de la Academia de Florencia, que la había elegido como musa de inspiración para crear su obra maestra y que había urdido un plan terrible a sus espaldas…
A princess from the steppe
by Eva GoldsbyYesterday the beautiful Olga shined at the balls, and today she was sentenced to be shot. But her torturers decided that shooting her was too easy, and sent her to the bare steppe, to a cold and starving death...
A súplica de Pablo
by Erick Carballo"La Súplica de Pablo" é uma novela em que a solidão, o bullying, o vício e o egoísmo de um pai se entrelaçam com a indiferença de uma mãe que abandona seu filho ao destino para começar uma nova vida com um homem que lhe assegura um futuro promissor. Pablo é um garoto de oito anos que tem apenas um amigo em quem pode confiar, mas uma série de acontecimentos o levam a um destino trágico.
A.R. Gurney: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists #34)
by Arvid F. SponbergThis is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as well as essays by leading theater scholars on the range of Gurney's work.
A2 Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel
by Alan Perks Jacqueline PorteousA2 Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel builds on the skills developed during the AS year to provide clear and informative guidance to Units 3 and 4 of the specification. The textbook provides further information on rehearsing, performing, directing and textual analysis, together with new material on deconstructing a script, devising theatre and preparing for the final examination. Features of the text include: overviews of specification and assessment requirements written and practical exercises a glossary of useful words and terms in-depth analysis of the three key plays – Dr Faustus, Lysistrata and Woyzeck extension exercises to stretch the more able student worked examples to illustrate best practice sources for further study advice on study after A Level. Written by a chief examiner and a principal moderator, this book and its companion volume for AS Level offer informed and supportive exercises to ensure that students reach their maximum potential in achieving A Level success.
AI for Arts (AI for Everything)
by Niklas Hageback Daniel HedblomAI for Arts is a book for anyone fascinated by the man–machine connection, an unstoppable evolution that is intertwining us with technology in an ever-greater degree, and where there is an increasing concern that it will be technology that comes out on top. Thus, presented here through perhaps its most esoteric form, namely art, this unfolding conundrum is brought to its apex. What is left of us humans if artificial intelligence also surpasses us when it comes to art? The articulation of an artificial intelligence art manifesto is long overdue, so hopefully this book can fill a gap that will have repercussions not only for aesthetic and philosophical considerations but possibly more so for the development of artificial intelligence.
ANU Productions: The Monto Cycle
by Brian SingletonThis book sets out strategies of analysis of the award-winning tetralogy of performances (2010-14) by ANU Productions known as 'The Monto Cycle'. Set within a quarter square mile of Dublin's north inner city, colloquially known as The Monto, these performances featured social concerns that have blighted the area over the past 100 years, including prostitution, trafficking, asylum-seeking, heroin addiction, and the scandal of the Magdalene laundries. While placing the four productions in their social, historical, cultural and economic contexts, the book examines these performances that operated at the intersection of performance, installation, visual art, choreography, site-responsive and community arts. In doing so, it explores their concerns with time, place, history, memory, the city, 'affect', and the self as agent of action.
AS Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel
by Alan Perks Jacqueline PorteousAS Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the new specification. The textbook covers all aspects of the AS year in depth, from exploring play texts to demonstrating skills in performance and theatre design. The detailed guidance and classroom-friendly features include: overviews of specification and assessment requirements written and practical exercises tips from a Chief Examiner extension exercises to stretch the more able student worked examples to illustrate best practice a glossary of useful words and terms. Written by a Chief Examiner and a Principal Moderator, this authoritative book offers a wealth of informed and supportive exercises to ensure that students reach their maximum potential.
ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Michael D. Harris Paul Carter Harrison Pellom McDaniels III‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals.
Aaron Copland: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1923-1972
by Richard Kostelanetz Steve SilversteinThis book presents a selection of the best writings, of the American composer and music legend Aaron Copland, on a wide variety of topics. It features excerpts from his correspondence and recommendations he wrote for other composers.
Abe: A New Musical
by Lee GoldsmithMusical / 16m, 9f "The founding fathers got their own musical with 1776, so why not Abe?" - Playbill.com Abe is a new musical about the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The show explores his youth as a flatboat pilot on the Mississippi, his early love for Ann Rutledge, his troubled marriage to the difficult and mentally fragile Mary Todd, and his attempt to be a good father to his sons. The story follows Abe from his earliest attempts at self-improvement through the 1860 election which made him the 16th president of an already fracturing United States. The score is fully orchestrated and uses bold, melodic and traditional musical theatre styles that embrace the story's period and Americana roots. It can be produced fully staged or as a concert performance. The musical features a large cast and requires strong singers: baritone, soprano, mezzo-soprano, 3 adult male singing roles, 3 male children singing roles, male/female chorus with many speaking roles.
Abelard and Heloise
by Helen WaddellHistorical Drama \ 12m, 9f \ Single Set \ One of the greatest love stories of all time, this play was inspired by Helen Waddell's Peter Abelard and the letters of the 12th century lovers: a monastic scholar and poet and the innocent girl who came to adore him. Abelard loses his heart and his reason to Heloise, has a child by her and, in violation of his vows, enters into a secret marriage. Heloise's vengeful uncle alerts the ecclesiastical authorities. The lovers are separated and Abelard is castrated. She enters a nunnery and he a monastery. They meet again years later when he turns over to her, as abbess, a community he founded at their parting. \ "Will please people who like tragedy with their love and wit with their history." - The New York Times
Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production (Dissident Acts)
by Leticia AlvaradoIn Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or celebration, artists such as Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, and the Chicano art collective known as Asco employ negative affects—shame, disgust, and unbelonging—to capture experiences that lie at the edge of the mainstream, inspirational Latino-centered social justice struggles. Drawing from a diverse expressive archive that ranges from performance art to performative testimonies of personal faith-based subjection, Alvarado illuminates modes of community formation and social critique defined by a refusal of identitarian coherence that nonetheless coalesce into Latino affiliation and possibility.
About Shakespeare: Bodies, Spaces and Texts (Elements in Shakespeare Performance)
by Robert ShaughnessyThis Element addresses the question of what Shakespeare in contemporary performance is about, and whether it really is, as it may claim to be, about Shakespeare. Far from charting a smooth journey from page to stage, the work of making Shakespeare into performances often involves deflection, evasion and circumnavigation. Drawing upon the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe and the Schaubühne Berlin, About Shakespeare examines theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.
Above the Clouds
by Karen Leon Anne Flounders Kitty HigginsPerform this script about a weather reporter's turbulent ride in a hot air balloon.
Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre
by Chantal Bilodeau Larry TremblayAbsurd, hilarious and haunting, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre is an unforgettable mystery that asks the question: How can we ever know who we are and what is true when the world we know is shifting beneath us? Its answer is simple: John Wilkes Booth was the ?rst American star-the actor who kidnapped reality to transform it into theatre.
Abstract Expressions
by Theresa RebeckAfter a scathing review 15 years ago, a once-celebrated painter faded into impoverished obscurity. Can one chance encounter resurrect this volatile artist from obscurity and re-launch him to overnight success? Theresa Rebeck skillfully compares the gritty urban realities of lives lived on the edge with the capricious intrigues of the uptown gallery scene where fame might just be a matter of who you know and reputations can be bought and sold.
Academia Nuts
by Gregg KreutzComedy \ 2m, 2f \ Interior \ Professor Peter Smedforson lives in a quiet New England college town in the former home of poet E.R. Lennox, whose writings are the subject of his scholarly life's work. Reclusive Peter finds his sedate life is suddenly turned upside down when he is invaded by Tammi, a free spirit from Atlantic City whose luck has run out, by Judith, another Lennox scholar determined to unearth a lost manuscript in his home, and by Stuart, Judith's reprehensible ex-husband who is trying to beat her to the manuscript. Peter is confronted with house breakers, mistaken identities, hide and seek chases and unexpected romance. Laughter abounds as Tammi Life won't leave me alone and Peter Life? Sorry, I'm busy find each other amid the chaos created by the manuscript hunting rivals. The discovery of the manuscript and the revelation of its surprising secret provide a hilarious climax to this urbane and quick witted comedy by the author of the popular farce Bottoms Up! \ "Double over with laughter funny." WSTV/WRKY.
Accidents Happen
by J. Michael Deangelis John P. Dowgin Pete BarryCollection of short playsComedyWinner! 2009 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play Seven of The Porch Room's best short plays collected together into an evening of comedy that proves that no matter what you plan for - accidents happen.Shorts include: Accidents Happen - Please beware of all safety procedures and take note of the emergency exits. Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second - Balthazar Kent, ejected from an airplane, tries to regain control of his life through his cellphone. Reunion Special - A desperate former child actor reunites with his now adult co-stars at a funeral. The Clive Way - A motivational speaker mistakenly tries to empower a group of newly rehabilitated anger-management patients. Hangman - A budding teenage philosopher-scientist searches for the truth by experimenting on his friend with a hallucinogenic cocktail. Tricks of the Trade - Ralph teaches Eddie how to sell your soul for success. The Banderscott - An infomercial marketer is pitched an astonishing product. The shorts can be performed together as a full-length show or on their own as one acts.
Accommodations
by Nick HallNick Hall . Full Length, Comedy. . Characters: 2 male, 2 female . Interior Set. Lee Schallert, housewife, feeling she may be missing out on something, leaves her husband, Bob, and her suburban home and moves into a two room Greenwich Village apartment with two roommates. One roommate, Pat, is an aspiring actress, never out of character or costumes; but through an agency mix up, the other roommate is a serious, young, graduate student male. The ensuing complications make a hysterical evening. . "An amusing study of marital and human relations. . . . A gem." Labor Herald. . "The audience laughed until it hurt." News American. . "Superior theatre.... It is light comedy at its best." The Sun, Baltimore.