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Monkey's Uncle
by Roger KarshnerFarce / Roger Karshner / 4 m. 2 f. / Interior / Ernie loves apes and Fred collects leaves. And the two of them get together every Saturday to play Chinese checkers. During one of the games, Fred fakes dying of a heart attack. Ernie and his wife, Dottie, put Fred in their son's room and leave to get Harold, Fred's daffy nephew. During their absence their son, Clyde, returns home from college unexpectedly with his girlfriend, Sybil. When Sybil suggests they make love Clyde goes to his room and finds a "stiff" Fred in his bed. He panics, causing Sybil to run out into the night scantily clad thinking she doesn't turn Clyde on anymore. Now Clyde, assuming his dad has knocked off Fred, decides to get rid of the body by exchanging it with a stuffed ape. From this point on it's a whirlwind of apes, leaves, worms, ant farms, blackmail, misunderstandings and madness. But it all comes out in the wash.
Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays
by Stephen H. West Wilt L. IdemaThis magnificent collection of eleven early [1250–1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in this volume expertly translated into lively, idiomatic English; they are each provided with illuminating, scholarly introductions that are yet fully intelligible to the educated lay reader.
Monólogo de Molly Bloom
by James JoyceUn hito de la literatura inglesa moderna: el soberbio y pasional soliloquio de Molly Bloom. «[...] me gustaría que algún hombre cualquiera me cogiese alguna vez cuando él está aquí y me besase entre sus brazos no hay cosa como un beso largo y caliente que te baja por el alma casi te paraliza [...]» Cien años después de su publicación, las palabras de Molly Bloom, que cierran el gran canto épico del siglo XX que es el Ulises, siguen dejando a cualquier lector sin aliento. Sin signos de puntuación, a través del denominado «flujo de consciencia», Molly se convierte en una Penélope moderna que toma la palabra y zambulle al lector en sus pensamientos más profundos. Consciente de su complicada situación matrimonial con Leopold Bloom, tan solo le queda echar un vistazo atrás a la infancia, a sus hijos, a sus deseos más íntimos, a su radical mundanidad. Publicado por Sylvia Beach en la mítica librería parisina Shakespeare and Company en 1922, no cabe duda de que el Ulises, la obra magna de James Joyce, marcó un antes y un después en la modernidad literaria. Y no hay mejor manera de celebrar su centenario que leyendo el pasaje que encumbró al escritor irlandés. Sobre la obra y el autor:«Si tuviera que perderse todo lo que se llama literatura moderna y hubiera que salvar dos libros, esos dos libros que podríamos elegir en todo el mundo serían en primer término el Ulises y luego el Finnegans Wake, de Joyce».Jorge Luis Borges «Algo completamente nuevo. Ha logrado superar en intensidad a todos los novelistas de nuestra época.»William Butler Yeats «Ulises de Joyce es el eslabón entre los dos grandes mundos, el clásico y el del caos».George Steiner «Malditamente maravilloso».Ernest Hemingway «Había leído la novela con algo parecido a la veneración [...]. Lo leí con una dedicación queno he vuelto a tener nunca».Juan Gabriel Vásquez, El País «Un libro con el que todos estamos en deuda, y del que ninguno de nosotros puede escapar».T. S. Eliot «Cada página es maravillosa y compensa el esfuerzo».Joyce Carol Oates «Una obra de arte divina que vivirá para siempre».Vladimir Nabokov «Lo devoré en un verano con espasmos de asombro y de descubrimiento».Virginia Woolf «Navegué por primera vez en el Ulises con catorce años. Y digo navegar y no leer porque, como nos recuerda su título, el libro es como un océano; no lo lees, navegas a través de él».John Berger «Joyce está siempre en mi mente, lo llevo a todas partes conmigo. Construyó un universo a partir de un grano de arena: eso fue toda una revelación».Salman Rushdie «A veces pienso que preferiría no haberlo leído: me hace sentir inferior. Volver a mi obra tras un libro así es como si un eunuco quisiera tener voz debarítono».George Orwell
A Monologue is an Outrageous Situation!: How to Survive the 60-Second Audition
by Herb ParkerA Monologue is an Outrageous Situation! How to Survive the 60-Second Audition explains how to successfully tackle the "cattle call" acting audition with a sixty-second monologue. Through Q&As, tips, director’s notes, and a glossary full of outrageous actions meant to inspire the actor into truly connecting with the piece, this book shows actors where and how to find a monologue, edit it, and give the best audition possible.
Monologues for Actors of Color: Women
by Roberta UnoActors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an introduction and notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor. This new edition now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the Monologues for Actors of Color books were first published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners.
Monster High: Welcome to Boo York
by Perdita FinnIt's fright lights, big city when the Monster High ghouls head to Boo York. Cleo de Nile is invited to attend a fancy gala celebrating the return of a magical comet and, of course, she brings along her beast friends. But their trip isn't all fun and frightseeing because Nefera, Cleo's sister, uses the comet's powers for her own spooktacularly sneaky plans. Can the monsters unwrap the mystery of the comet in time to stop Nefera?
Monster High: Catty Noir Finds Her Voice
by Perdita FinnA new Monster High leveled reader movie tie-in! © 2015 Mattel. All Rights Reserved.Passport to Reading Level 2
The Monster Trilogy
by R. M. VaughanOgres, trolls, demons - monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women. 'In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance,' we meet a middle-aged police officer whose world view is determined by her obsession with race, bloodlines and genetic determinism. 'The Susan Smith Tapes' (made into a film for CBC and Showcase by Jeremy Podeswa) shows the famous American who drowned her two young sons trying to recapture the public's attention by auditioning for talk shows. And 'Dead Teenagers' introduces us to a frustrated reverend unhealthily addicted to the spectacle of large funerals for murdered children.
A Monster with a Thousand Hands: The Discursive Spectator in Early Modern England
by Amy J. RodgersA Monster with a Thousand Hands makes visible a figure that has been largely overlooked in early modern scholarship on theater and audiences: the discursive spectator, an entity distinct from the actual bodies attending early modern English playhouses. Amy J. Rodgers demonstrates how the English commercial theater's rapid development and prosperity altered the lexicon for describing theatergoers and the processes of engagement that the theater was believed to cultivate. In turn, these changes influenced and produced a cultural projection—the spectator—a figure generated by social practices rather than a faithful recording of those who attended the theater. The early modern discursive spectator did not merely develop alongside the phenomenological one, but played as significant a role in shaping early modern viewers and viewing practices as did changes to staging technologies, exhibition practices, and generic experimentation.While audience and film studies have theorized the spectator, these fields tend to focus on the role of twentieth-century media (film, television, and the computer) in producing mass-culture viewers. Such emphases lead to a misapprehension that the discursive spectator is modernity's creature. Fearing anachronism, early modern scholars have preferred demographic studies of audiences to theoretical engagements with the "effects" of spectatorship. While demographic work provides an invaluable snapshot, it cannot account for the ways that the spectator is as much an idea as a material presence. And, while a few studies pursue the dynamics that existed among author, text, and audience using critical tools sharpened by film studies, they tend to obscure how early modern culture understood the spectator. Rather than relying exclusively on historical or theoretical methodologies, A Monster with a Thousand Hands reframes spectatorship as a subject of inquiry shaped both by changes in entertainment technologies and the interaction of groups and individuals with different forms of cultural production.
Monsters: A Bedford Spotlight Reader
by Andrew J. HoffmanMonsters seem to be everywhere, and it's easy to see why: they're fun. Young and old pile into movie theaters to watch the latest releases from Hollywood featuring both the scary and the attractive–carnivorous zombies, love-struck vampires, bloodthirsty werewolves, even methodical serial killers.
Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification
by Michael Chemers Analola SantanaMonsters in Performance boasts an impressive range of contemporary essays that delve into topical themes such as race, gender, and disability, to explore what constitutes monstrosity within the performing arts. These fascinating essays from leading and emerging scholars explore representation in performance, specifically concerning themselves with attempts at social disqualification of "undesirables." Throughout, the writers employ the concept of "monstrosity" to describe the cultural processes by which certain identities or bodies are configured to be threateningly deviant. The editors take a range of previously isolated critical inquiries – including bioethics, critical race studies, queer studies, and televisual studies - and merge them to create an accessible and dynamic platform which unifies these ranges of representations. The global scope and interdisciplinary nature of Monsters in Performance renders it an essential book for Theatre and Performance students of all levels as well as scholars; it will also be an enlightening text for those interested in monstrosity and Cultural Studies more broadly.
The Montana Medicine Show's Genuine Montana History
by B. Derek StrahnThis book is a collection of episodes from the popular radio program, Montana Medicine Show by Derek Strahn, that originates at KGLT studios on the campus of Montana State University-Bozeman. Though the program strives to inform, its main objective is to entertain-to relate some interesting or quirky anecdote and provide an enjoyable or thought-provoking glimpse of Montana's past. Given the fleeting nature of radio and the need to make a quick impression, the 117 stories are packed with colorful quotations and vivid firsthand accounts. The lively style is fun to read, and the book adds interesting illustrations to every story. Floods, fires, earthquakes, and blizzards frequently take the stage. But at the center of it all are the people. Montana's medicine show is filled with a raucous cast of hucksters, risk-takers, reformers, warriors, and reprobates. Here one will find manly men and feisty women, tradition-clinging conservatives and reckless radicals. As the uncompromising journalist Joseph Kinsey Howard said, "Montana has lived the life of America, on a reduced scale and at breakneck speed. Its history has been bewilderingly condensed, a kaleidoscopic newsreel, unplotted and unplanned. . . " Enjoy some of the state's most extraordinary moments in The Montana Medicine Show's Genuine Montana History. Book jacket.
The Month Before the Moon
by Lois Shapley BassenDrama / 2 m., 6 f. / Interior / Meeting at their twentieth fifth Vassar reunion in 1994 are four women in their late forties: an African American United States senator from Texas, a farmer from New Hampshire, an East Side New York wife and a successful songwriter, also from New York City. Two of them are accompanied by their children, a son and daughter who plan to enter Vassar in the fall and are along for the pre frosh orientation. The other two characters are ghosts, one a former classmate and the other the farmer's father. Each of the women has a particular motive for attending this reunion, something each must complete. For one it is suicide, an act that interrupts the teenagers' love making and staggers the rest into actions they would not have otherwise taken and revelations they would not have otherwise divulged. By the final curtain a great deal is revealed about the last quarter of this century and the women who graduated from Vassar in June of 1969, the month before the first human walked on the moon.
A Month in the Country
by Larissa Volokhonsky Richard Pevear Ivan Turgenev Richard Nelson"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."-The New YorkerOne week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of love, lust, and jealousy. This revelatory new translation by renowned playwright Richard Nelson along with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky-the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature, including the best-selling Oprah's Book Club selection, Anna Karenina-marks the second of a series of translations of important Russian plays to be published over the next ten years.Richard Nelson's many plays include Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk-nominated Franny's Way and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award-nominated Two Shakespearean Actors, and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. His The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country will be published by Theatre Communications Group in early 2014.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the 1991 and 2002 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prizes. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris.
The Monument
by Richard Rose Colleen WagnerStetko is the model boy next door and the son of middle-class parents, but when war arrives it forever changes his life. Although he does nothing more than follow his commanding officer's orders, when the war is over he stands accused of terrible crimes. A profoundly affecting two-person drama that reminds us of the faceless horror of war, and of the guilt which whole nations must carry on their shoulders. Wagner's play goes to the heart of man's inhumanity in war time.Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
Monuments and Literary Posterity in Early Modern Drama
by Brian ChalkIn spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of post-Reformation memorialization. Providing fresh analyses of plays by major dramatists, Brian Chalk considers how they depicted monuments and other funeral properties on stage in order to exploit and criticize the rich ambiguities of commemorative rituals. The book also discusses the print history of the plays featured. The subject will attract scholars and upper-level students of Renaissance drama, memory studies, early modern theatre, and print history.
Mooi Street and Other Moves
by Paul SlabolepszyA collection of six plays by South Africa’s leading playwright and actor featuring works written between 1984 and 1993.
A Moon for the Misbegotten
by Eugene O'NeillEugene O’Neill’s last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographical Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Moon picks up eleven years after the events described in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, as Jim Tyrone (based on O’Neill’s older brother Jamie) grasps at a last chance at love under the full moonlight. This paperback edition features an insightful introduction by Stephen A. Black, helpful to anyone who desires a deeper understanding of O’Neill’s work.
The Moon Is Down
by John SteinbeckIn this masterful story set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into the emotions of the German commander and the Norwegian traitor, and depicts the spirited patriotism of the Norwegian underground, Steinbeck uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war—and about human nature. The Moon is Down had an extraordinary impact as Allied propaganda in Nazi-occupied Europe, and despite efforts to suppress it, the book was secretly translated into French, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, and Russian, and hundreds of thousands of copies circulated Europe, making it by far one of the most popular pieces of propaganda during the war. Few literary works of our time have demonstrated so triumphantly the power of ideas in the face of cold steel and brute force. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
The Moon Rises from the Ganges: My journey through Asian acting techniques (Routledge Icarus)
by Eugenio BarbaA collection of texts by Eugenio Barba reconstructing the history of his relationships with the Asian classical theatres. Interweaving stories of journeys, meetings, anecdotes, reflections and technical descriptions, the author exposes the phases and changes in a passion that covers the fifty years of his professional trajectory. Little known or unpublished texts are included together with widely diffused articles which have become classics. The result is a book which examines in detail an important chapter of the dialogue between East and West in the theatre culture of the twentieth century.
Moonlight Cocktail
by Steven KeyesFull Length, Comedy 3 m, 2 f Unit set This bittersweet comedy of human errors opens in an East Texas trailer park where tensions are at the boiling point. Waitress and aspiring actress Patsy Tyson is preparing for her local theatre debut, arousing her ne'r do well husband Ed's suspicions as a growing attraction develops with her leading man. Casting a wary eye on the lovebirds, Ed enlists his reluctant pal Duke to join the production. As the romantic complications mount, opening night approaches and they all must finally face a harsh reality in the light of day. With a style that takes realism to the borders of the ridiculous, Moonlight Cocktail explores human follies with an effortless and lyrical humor. "Tightly written and entertaining [with] well-rounded characters."-Backstage
Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747 (Performance In The Long Eighteenth Century: Studies In Theatre, Music, Dance Ser.)
by Aparna GollapudiIn the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist emerged on the English stage. The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Aparna Gollapudi argues, but an important social mechanism for controlling and challenging political and economic changes. Gollapudi looks at reform comedies by dramatists such as Colley Cibber, Susanna Centlivre, Richard Steele, Charles Johnson, and Benjamin Hoadly in relation to emergent trends in finance capitalism, imperial nationalism, political factionalism, domestic ideology, and middling class-consciousness. Within the context of the cultural anxieties engendered by these developments, Gollapudi suggests, the reform comedies must be seen not as clichéd and moralistic productions but as responses to vital ideological shifts and cultural transvaluations that impose a reassuring moral schema on everyday conduct. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, Gollapudi's study shows that reform comedies covered a range of contemporary concerns from party politics to domestic harmony and are crucial for understanding eighteenth-century literature and culture.
The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays (Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare)
by Vivian ThomasWhat is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of innocence in Measure for Measure, to the puzzling status of virtue and valour in All’s Well, the most obvious feature of these plays in their capacity to prompt new questions. In a detailed discussion of each play in turn, the author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides numerous insights into the sources, background, texture and morality of the plays.
More Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Women
by Simon DunmoreFollowing on his successful Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Women, Simon Dunmore presents even more underappreciated speeches that will make a classical audition sound fresh.
More Art in the Public Eye
by Micaela Martegani Jeff Kasper Emma DrewMore Art in the Public Eye offers critical insight into the ever-growing field of socially engaged public art by demonstrating how the committed collaboration of artists, community members, and cultural producers can meaningfully impact our collective futures. Presented through the lens of More Art's fifteen-year history, the public art projects featured in this book expose issues of systemic inequality and injustice, stoke debate, and inspire alternatives. Artists and participants reflect on their works in newly conducted interviews, while essays from thinkers and actors in the field help situate the projects and the mission of socially engaged art in terms of greater cultural and political paradigms. More Art in the Public Eye establishes the framework for the conditions under which organizations like More Art operate, highlights the many meta-questions behind socially engaged public art, and seeks to amplify the wide array of voices that make up a project.Contributors. Rebecca Amato, Michael Birchall, Ofri Cnaani, Michelle Coffey, Jennifer Dalton, Emma Drew, Pablo Helguera, Mary Jane Jacob, Jessica Lynne, Jeff Kasper, Kimsooja, Micaela Martegani, Andrea Mastrovito, Tony Oursler, William Powhida, Ernesto Pujol, Michael Rakowitz, Kirk Savage, Dread Scott, Andres Serrano, Gregory Sholette, Xaviera Simmons, Krzysztof Wodiczko