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Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater
by Moises Kaufman Barbara Pitts McAdamsA detailed guide to the collaborative method developed by the acclaimed creators of The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency--destined to become a classic. A Vintage Original.By Moisés Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams with Leigh Fondakowski, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Kelli Simpkins, Jimmy Maize, and Scott Barrow. For more than two decades, the members of Tectonic Theater Project have been rigorously experimenting with the process of theatrical creation. Here they set forth a detailed manual of their devising method and a thorough chronicle of how they wrote some of their best-known works. This book is for all theater artists—actors, writers, designers, and directors—who wish to create work that embraces the unbridled potential of the stage.
The Mommiad
by Sky GilbertPoetic and heartfelt, The Mommiad chronicles the relationship between a mother and her son, the ups and downs they shared, and the toll that alcohol and dementia would eventually take on Patricia Tucker Gilbert's life. Intimate and affirming, Sky Gilbert confirms the bond he shared with his mother, both in his own voice and through the voice of his alter ego, Jane. The Mommiad is lyrical and tragic and true, an artist's self-reflection and an endeavour to turn one woman's life into an artistic experience.
The MOMologues
by Sheila Eppolito Stefanie Cloutier Lisa RaffertyComedyCharacters: 4 female. Simple Set. This original comedy about motherhood rips away the gauzy mask of parenthood to reveal what all mothers know but don't always talk about: it's overwhelming and exhausting, but also very, very funny. From the joys of infertility, through reading the same books over and over and over, to finally seeing your baby get on that school bus, this play mines the laughs and tears of the early years of motherhood. Four separate characters tell their individual stories, either directly to the audience in monologues, or in scenes with each other. Mothers everywhere can relate to the labor stories, the frustration of a simple trip to the store, the quest to connect with other mothers, all of which causes them to plan moms' nights out and arrive in packs to laugh hysterically at this tribute to "the toughest job you'll ever love.. "The show is about the ups and downs of motherhood; what binds mothers together, not what sets them apart...edgy, funny, and true." -Showcase Magazine. "At the show we caught Saturday, the audience frequently exploded in laughter." -The Boston Globe. "Reveals the funny, secretive side of having kids!" -Parents & Kids Magazine
Momologues 2: Off To School
by Lisa RaffertyThe MOM crew is at it again! MOMologues2: Off to School offers a frank and funny look at the true tales of motherhood, from homework hell to multitasking mania. Four separate characters tell their individual stories, either directly to the audience in monologues, or in scenes with each other. Moms everywhere will laugh in recognition at the playdates gone wrong, the crazy way to get a Mom day off, how to stalk a potential babysitter and much more.
Money and Murda
by Fred BrownMoney grew up in one of the most dangerous projects in Brooklyn. With the help of his right hand man, he became a boss of a multi-million dollar drug ring. He supplied over 70% of the cocaine in New York City and surrounding areas. The five boroughs, the streets... the grimest hoods and projects are familiar with his name however, it's only very small inter circle that recognize him by his face. His people raise the murder rate throughout the city. If you cross the line, have your casket and tombstone ready. A hard nose, relentless veteran NYPD detective refuses to retire, until he finds out who the invisible leader is, this powerful cartel that the streets are scared to talk about and law agencies can not infiltrate. Murder is the most sought after high school basketball player in the country. He is expected to be a 1st round draft pick in the NBA. He lives in a small town that puts up B.G. numbers in the drug trade. He refuses to stop balling in the streets. He has a decision to make, either way, Murder will be balling!! When Money and Murder meet "The Game" is played... The way the Game is supposed to be played and everybody eats!!!
Monkey Business Theatre
by Robert M. LaughlinIn 1983, a group of citizens in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, formed Sna Jtz'ibajom, the Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya writers' cooperative. In the two decades since, this group has evolved from writing and publishing bilingual booklets to writing and performing plays that have earned them national and international renown. Anthropologist Robert M. Laughlin has been a part of the group since its beginnings, and he offers a unique perspective on its development as a Mayan cultural force. The Monkey Business Theatre, or Teatro Lo'il Maxil, as this branch of Sna Jtz'ibajom calls itself, has presented plays in virtually every corner of the state of Chiapas, as well as in Mexico City, Guatemala, Honduras, Canada, and in many museums and universities in the United States. It has presented to the world, for the first time in drama, a view of the culture of the Mayas of Chiapas. In this work, Laughlin presents a translation of twelve of the plays created by Sna Jtz'ibajom, along with an introduction for each. Half of the plays are based on myths and half on the social, political, and economic problems that have confronted--and continue to confront--the Mayas of Chiapas. In 1983, a group of citizens in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, formed Sna Jtz'ibajom, the Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya writers' cooperative. In the two decades since, this group has evolved from writing and publishing bilingual booklets to writing and performing plays that have earned them national and international renown. Anthropologist Robert M. Laughlin has been a part of the group since its beginnings, and he offers a unique perspective on its development as a Mayan cultural force. The Monkey Business Theatre, or Teatro Lo'il Maxil, as this branch of Sna Jtz'ibajom calls itself, has presented plays in virtually every corner of the state of Chiapas, as well as in Mexico City, Guatemala, Honduras, Canada, and in many museums and universities in the United States. It has presented to the world, for the first time in drama, a view of the culture of the Mayas of Chiapas. In this work, Laughlin presents a translation of twelve of the plays created by Sna Jtz'ibajom, along with an introduction for each. Half of the plays are based on myths and half on the social, political, and economic problems that have confronted - and continue to confront - the Mayas of Chiapas.
Monkey Monkey Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here?
by Marsha SheinessDrama \ Marsha Sheiness \ 6 f., 1 child. \ Int. \ This psychological mystery is set in the waiting room of a clinic where five mothers await word on the futures of their retarded children. They have been given the opportunity to change their children into geniuses, and the play explores the hopes, fears and guilt of each woman. As the drama moves forward, the very nature of parent child love is examined. \ "A gallery of characters interestingly and richly observed." N.Y. Times.
Monkey Soup
by Don NigroFull length, farce / 5m, 3f / Unit set / Set on the stage of a New York theatre in the 1930s, this demented, madcap, no holds barred, galloping farce is a loving parody and homage to the sort of movie the Marx Brothers might have made after a hundred cups of coffee with their hair on fire. The language is rapid fire and the physical comedy is maniacal. Mrs. Lillian Quackenfurter, a once renowned actress, has written the worst play in the history of the theatre, Lady Furtwinger's Lover, which she hopes to star in to revive her career after a forty year hiatus, and has hired a person she believes to be the internationally renowned director, Dr Cornelius T. Fartwhistle, a rude, fast-talking con man who insults her constantly and makes hash of her play. He's actually a dentist named Hassenfusser who accidentally killed Fartwhistle with laughing gas while filling a cavity. The stage manager, Boccalucci, and his wild, girl-chasing, mute assistant, Goosey, who have worked with the real Fartwhistle in the past (and slept with his wife) blackmail Fartwhistle-Hassenfusser into letting them appear in the play, planning to disable the other actors by feeding them bad fish and putting vodka in the water cooler. Lucy the maid is determined to get through her exposition, despite the fact that she's forced to talk into a goose instead of a telephone, and is being constantly bombarded by bird carcasses. Edgar is insanely jealous over his blond bombshell wife Thelma, who is unconscious for much of the second act. Dick, the leading man, plays tennis and announces that he has three balls. Somebody has put tranquilizer darts in the prop gun. Non-stop lunacy.
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.