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No Man's Land
by David W. RobinsonThe political events of "annus mirabilis" 1989 marked a rare turning point in world history, but the significance of the year for German literary history is unique. As the 40-year-old German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, so too did the special circumstances which had fostered a literature separate from and in competition with that of the Federal Republic of Germany. A new period of literary history was delimited almost overnight: Germany Democratic Republic literature now was something to be examined as a whole, cultural movement. At the same time, the literary traditions of the German Democratic Republic have continued to influence the contemporary cultural scene, often in ways that are only gradually becoming clear.The essays, memoirs, and plays collected in this special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review represent an early attempt to assess and reassess one of the German Democratic Republic's richest cultural domains: its theatre. Contributors include David W. Robinson, C
No More Dead Dogs
by Gordon KormanFootball hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
No More Wars but the Moon
by E. P. ConkleComedy / 6f / The women's club finds a solution for settling wars. The women are making a quilt for the marriage of one of them with a young man. Mrs. Tansey comes in with her unique plan for world peace and eventually gets the quilt and the young man.
No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
by Angela C. Pao"No Safe Spaces opens up a conversation beyond narrow polemics . . . Although cross-racial casting has been the topic of heated discussion, little sustained scholarship addresses both the historical precedents and theoretical dimensions. Pao illustrates the tensions and contradictions inherent not only in stage representations, but also in the performance of race in everyday life. A wonderful book whose potential readership goes well beyond theater and performance scholars. " ---Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota "Non-traditional casting, increasingly practiced in American theater, is both deeply connected to our country's racial self-image(s) and woefully under-theorized. Pao takes on the practice in its entirety to disentangle the various strands of this vitally important issue. " ---Karen Shimakawa, New York University. No Safe Spaces looks at one of the most radical and enduring changes introduced during the Civil Rights era---multiracial and cross-racial casting practices in American theater. The move to cast Latino/a, African American, and Asian American actors in classic stage works by and about white Europeans and Americans is viewed as both social and political gesture and artistic innovation. Nontraditionally cast productions are shown to have participated in the national dialogue about race relations and ethnic identity and served as a source of renewed creativity for the staging of the canonical repertory. Multiracial casting is explored first through its history, then through its artistic, political, and pragmatic dimensions. Next, the book focuses on case studies from the dominant genres of contemporary American theater: classical tragedy and comedy, modern domestic drama, anti-realist drama, and the Broadway musical, using a broad array of archival source materials to enhance and illuminate its arguments. Angela C. Pao is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. A volume in the series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Noah Centineo: Issue #1 (Scoop! The Unauthorized Biography #1)
by C. H. MitfordIntroducing a new series of unauthorized biographies on the world's biggest names and rising stars in entertainment, sports, and pop culture! Complete with quizzes, listicles, trivia, and a full-color pull-out poster, this is the definitive collection to get the full Scoop! and more on your favorite celebrities.Is there anything Noah Centineo can't do? • He acts... • He sings... • He-Man???That's right! The former Disney star will make his big-screen debut for Marvel Universe as He-Man in 2021.Get the full Scoop! and more on Noah Centineo: Hollywood's next superstar.
Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost
by Martha Freeman&“Will make a theater lover of any young reader.&” —Booklist Perfect for fans of The Wednesday Wars, this raucous and delightful middle grade mystery from Edgar Award–nominated author Martha Freeman is filled with backstage fun, relatable family drama, and maybe even a ghost.Break a leg! That&’s what you say to actors when what you mean is Have a good show!. Anything else is bad luck. When Miss Magnus literally breaks her leg, eleven-year-old Noah McNichol and the rest of the Plattsfield Winklebottom Memorial Sixth-Grade Players are left without a director for their production of Hamlet. Coach Fig comes to the rescue—sort of. He&’ll direct, even though he is clearly more interested in whatever is happening on his phone than in directing. He doesn&’t even know upstage from downstage! But then something weird happens: out of nowhere appears a strangely dressed old guy named Mike. He tells Noah he has theater experience, before disappearing—poof. Noah has some investigating to do and some decisions to make. Like, does he care more that their new director might be a ghost or about getting to make his stage debut? And who is Mike and why has he decided to help? As things get weirder and weirder, one thing becomes clear: The show must go on, and Noah will do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.
Nobody Don't Like Yogi
by Tom LysaghtBiographical Comedy / 1m / Interior / In 1985, 16 games into the season, George Steinbrenner fired Yankee manager Yogi Berra, and he insulted the Berra family. Yogi never told anyone what was said, but he vowed not to enter Yankee Stadium as long as Steinbrenner owned the team. And he didn't until 1999 when the ghosts of Yankee greats tugged at his heart and he returned to throw out the first pitch of the season, replacing the recently deceased Joe DiMaggio. Set in the clubhouse of the cathedral of baseball, this play recreates that day and shows why Yogi Berra is a national treasure and a New York icon. Ben Gazzara starred in New York. / "A home run.''-New York Post
Noel Coward: A Biography of Noel Coward
by Philip HoareThe definitive biography of one of the 20th century&’s most celebrated and controversial dramatists.To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker Noël Coward (1899–1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. Given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, Samuel Johnson Prize–winning biographer Philip Hoare has produced an illuminating and sophisticated biography of Coward, whose relentless drive for success and approval fueled the stunning bursts of creativity that launched the once-painfully middle class boy from the suburbs of London into a pantheon of theatrical deities that includes Gilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. As much the embodiment of a lifestyle as an actual inhabitant of it, Coward&’s carefully cultivated image defined the aspirations of untold numbers of actors, artists, and writers who succeeded him, and Hoare&’s meticulously researched biography peels away the layers of this complex persona to reveal the man underneath it all, whom The Times (London) decreed upon his death to be the most versatile of all the great figures of the English theater.
Noël Coward (Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists)
by Russell JacksonNoël Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century’s most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work.For almost the entirety of the twentieth century, Noël Coward was one of the UK’s most popular and celebrated playwrights. Refracting, rather than directly reflecting the social and personal issues of his time, his plays reveal tensions and contradictions in the theatre world that surrounded them. As well as critical responses to his work and the key themes that it foregrounds, seminal productions of The Vortex, Private Lives, Design for Living, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit and more are examined to further elaborate on the radicalism of his approach to personal and social relationships, and the ways in which directors and actors have sought to achieve a sense of the disquiet felt by critics and audiences when they were first produced. This book explores the question of what Coward’s work can speak to for today’s modern audiences, assessing his standing in terms of how conditions have changed in the theatre and society more broadly since they were written.Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists series, Noël Coward provides undergraduate students on Theatre Studies degrees and Modern Drama courses an essential and accessible guide to the playwright’s work and illustrates the influence of his drama on what theatre can tell us about our society.
Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre
by Noël CowardNoël Coward on theatre was as dazzling and entertaining as his masterful plays and lyrics. Here his ideas and opinions on the subject are brilliantly brought together in an extraordinary collection of commentary, lyrics, essays, and asides on everything having to do with the theatre and Coward's dazzling life in it.The book Noël Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write—and never did. Including essays, interviews, diary entries, verse, his views on his fellow playwrights: "My Colleague Will," Shaw, Wilde, Chekhov, Barrie, Maugham, Eliot, Osborne, Albee, Beckett, Miller, Williams, Rattigan, Pinter, and Shaffer. Coward on the critics—many of whom irritated him over the years but came to admire him: James Agate, Alexander Woollcott, Graham Greene, Kenneth Tynan among them. And on the plays he wrote, among them: The Vortex; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Design For Living; Blithe Spirit.Here is the Master on the producers who crossed his path: André Charlot, C. B. Cochran, Binkie Beaumont. And the actors in the Coward galaxy: John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Gertrude Lawrence, the Lunts, etc. . . . His views on the art of acting: auditions, rehearsals, learning the lines, clarity of delivery, timing, control, range, stage fright, fans, theater audiences, revivals, comedy, "the Method," plays with a "message," taste, construction, "Star Quality," etc. . . . And last, but Noël Coward least, his experience in, and thoughts on: revue, cabaret, television, and musical theater, Bitter Sweet, Conversation Piece, Pacific 1860, After the Ball, Ace of Clubs, Sail Away, The Girl Who Came to Supper, Words and Music, This Year of Grace, London Calling! . . . and much more. Ingeniously, deftly compiled, edited, and annotated by Barry Day, Coward authority and editor of The Noёl Coward Reader and The Letters of Noёl Coward.
The Noh Drama: Ten Plays from the Japanese (Unesco collection of representative works)
by Noh CommitteeThis classic of Japanese studies presents extensive information about the history, culture and practice of Noh drama--one of Japan's most treasured dramatic art forms.<P><P>Noh as an independent and original art form--ultimately destined to supersede the earlier Dengaku, Sarugaku and other song dances--incorporates the most significant elements of the former and especially of the Kusemai (tune dance).With it a new literary form may be said to have been created.The invention of Noh is attributed to Kwannami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384), a distinguished actor and writer of Sarugaku and to his son Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), who developed and refined the art under the patronage of Yoshimitsu, the third Ashikaga shogun. In addition to his dramatic activities, Zeami composed a number of works, the most important of which is called the Kwadensho (the Book of the Flower), or more properly, Fushi-kwadensho which he explained the nature and aesthetic principles governing Noh plays, and gave detailed instructions concerning the manner of composition, acting, direction, and production of these dramas.Combining the elements of dance, miming, music, and chants, Noh plays may be described as lyrico-dramatic tone-poems, in which the text has a function somewhat similar to that of the libretto in a Wagner or Debussy opera.
The Noh Plays of Japan
by Arthur WaleyFirst published in 1921, The Noh Plays of Japan has been justly famous for more than three-quarters of a century and established the Noh play for the Western reader as beautiful literature. It contains translations of nineteen plays and summaries of sixteen more.
The Noh Plays of Japan
by Arthur WaleyFirst published in 1921, The Noh Plays of Japan has been justly famous for more than three-quarters of a century and established the Noh play for the Western reader as beautiful literature. It contains translations of nineteen plays and summaries of sixteen more.
Noir Suspicions
by David Landau Nikki SternMystery / 4m, 3f / In this hard boiled comic mystery sequel to the ever-popular Murder at Cafe Noir, ex-private eye Nick Archer is now the confused manager of Cafe Noir on the island of Mustique. He is confronted with a corpse on the dock, a mysterious femme fatale, a French blackmailer and a businessman who wants both the cafe and the woman. Rick is arrested after the blackmailer is murdered in his club. It is up to the audience to convince the magistrate that he is innocence. A tribute to Casablanca with many references to the classic movie, Noir Suspicions is guaranteed to delight audiences whether or not they are familiar with Murder at Cafe Noir
Noises Off: A Play in Three Acts
by Michael FraynNoises Off is not one play but two - simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to interlock, as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare going on backstage, and exit from that only to make their entrances back into Nothing On. In the end, at the disastrous final performance in Stockton-on-Tees, the two farces can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into one single collective nervous breakdown. Noises Off won both the Evening Standard and the Olivier Awards for Best Comedy when it was first produced, and ran in the West End for nearly five years. Michael Frayn's most recent play, Copenhagen, won both the Evening Standard Best Play Award in London and the Tony Best Play Award in New York.
The Non-Cycle Mystery Plays: Together with 'The Croxton Play of the Sacrament' and 'The Pride of Life' (Routledge Revivals)
by Osborn WaterhouseBetween the beginning of the tenth and the end of the sixteenth centuries, in all parts of Great Britain from Aberdeen to Cornwall, performances of liturgical and mystery plays are on record. This book, first published in 1909, is a collection of early-English religious plays with a detailed introduction written by the editor Osborn Waterhouse. The Non-Cycle Mystery Plays will be of interest to students of drama, performance and theatre studies.
None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare's Women
by Elizabeth SylviaAccording to the author, Shakespeare was unable to create fully realized female characters. "It doesn't matter, finally, if they are witty or can solve a vexing problem," she writes in her introductory poem. "All they do is orbit, casting here and there reflected light...." In this collection she gives new voices to Shakespeare's queens, daughters, lovers, and witches.
Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy
by Stephen E. KiddThis book examines the concept of 'nonsense' in ancient Greek thought and uses it to explore the comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. If 'nonsense' (phluaria, lēros) is a type of language felt to be unworthy of interpretation, it can help to define certain aspects of comedy that have proved difficult to grasp. Not least is the recurrent perception that although the comic genre can be meaningful (i. e. contain political opinions, moral sentiments and aesthetic tastes), some of it is just 'foolery' or 'fun'. But what exactly is this 'foolery', this part of comedy which allegedly lies beyond the scope of serious interpretation? The answer is to be found in the concept of 'nonsense': by examining the ways in which comedy does not mean, the genre's relationship to serious meaning (whether it be political, aesthetic, or moral) can be viewed in a clearer light.
Nora Em Auschwitz
by Lázaro Droznes Anabela Alves Lopes Afonso Romão PintoEste drama ficcional relata o processo de ensaios da CASA DE BONECAS de Ibsen, para ser representada em junho de 1944, quando uma delegação da Cruz Vermelha Internacional visitou o campo de concentração de Tezerin, a fim de verificar em que condições viviam os judeus. A atriz que antes fazia o papel de Nora foi transferida para Este e a obra reflete as dificuldades que a sua substituta, recém-chegada a Tezerin, enfrenta. Durante a visita da Cruz Vermelha, o campo transformou-se num grande palco de teatro no qual milhares de pessoas representaram diversas cenas para impressionar favoravelmente os delegados.
Nora in Auschwitz
by Luigia Pantalea Rovito Lázaro DroznesQuesta finzione drammatica racconta le prove per CASA DI BAMBOLA di Ibsen, la cui rappresentazione fu organizzata quando, nel mese di luglio del 1944, una delegazione della Croce Rossa Internazionale si recò in visita al campo di concentramento di Terezin con lo scopo di verificare le condizioni di vita degli ebrei. L'attrice inizialmente impegnata nel ruolo di Nora era stata deportata all'Est, e l'opera riflette le difficoltà incontrate dalla sua sostituta, arrivata di recente a Terezin. Durante la visita della Croce Rossa, il campo venne trasformato in un enorme palcoscenico, sul quale migliaia di persone diedero vita a numerosi spettacoli per impressionare favorevolmente i delegati.
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (Oberon Modern Plays Ser.)
by Anne CarsonAnne Carson’s new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women—Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—from their point of view Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.
The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays
by Larry Kramer Tony KushnerThe Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me is the stirring story of an AIDS activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing.
Normal People: The Scripts
by Sally RooneyDelve deeper into the Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated Hulu series based on Sally Rooney's bestselling novel with this must-have collection of the Normal People scripts, featuring behind-the-scenes photos and an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson.&“You know, I did used to think that I could read your mind at times.&”&“In bed you mean.&”&“Yeah. And afterwards but I dunno maybe that's normal.&”&“It&’s not.&”Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular. Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation, something life-changing begins.With an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson and featuring iconic images from the show, Normal People: The Scripts contains the complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated television drama that The New York Times called &“an unusually thoughtful and moving depiction of young people&’s emotional lives.&”
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
by Michael BlandingThe true story of a self-taught Shakespeare sleuth&’s quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world&’s most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives.Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy, called &“the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community,&” and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the undiscovered source for Shakespeare&’s plays. For the last fifteen years, McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true origins of Shakespeare&’s works. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and other plays and North&’s published and unpublished writings—as well as Shakespearean plotlines seemingly lifted straight from North&’s colorful life.Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy&’s wholly original conclusion is this: Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before. Many of them, he believes, were penned on behalf of North&’s patron Robert Dudley, in his efforts to woo Queen Elizabeth. That bold theory addresses many lingering mysteries about the Bard with compelling new evidence, including a newly discovered journal of North&’s travels through France and Italy, filled with locations and details appearing in Shakespeare&’s plays.North by Shakespeare alternates between the enigmatic life of Thomas North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider Dennis McCarthy&’s attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his &“singular genius.&”
The North Pool
by Rajiv JosephKhadim has no idea why he's been called into the office of Dr. Danielson, the Vice Principal at Sheffield High. At first, Danielson is cagey, using a minor violation to keep the boy at school for detention. But as tension mounts, Danielson alternately plays good cop and bad, and winds up catching Khadim in a series of lies about crimes he may (or may not) have committed.The truth shifts constantly in this riveting cat-and-mouse thriller from Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph. What's bothering Dr. Danielson? What are the secrets that trouble Khadim? As the semester reaches its final hour, the time for revelation begins. The North Pool is a psychological drama that weaves a timely character study about racial and cultural profiling in America, skillfully using an interrogation to peel away ever more unexpected layers of the characters' lives as they navigate our increasingly complex society.