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One Voice: House and Here Lies Henry
by Daniel Brooks Daniel MacivorGiving his characters life in a whirlwind of words, Daniel MacIvor showcases his talents as a writer and performer in two of his most celebrated solo shows. Published here for the first time in their newly revised scripts, House and Here Lies Henry seethe with anger and soothe with comedy.In House, Victor drags his audience through his life, his fantasies, his desires, and his recent push to the edge. Here Lies Henry is a story about a man alone on a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.
O'Neill: Son and Playwright, Volume 1
by Louis SheafferWinner of the Theater Library Association's George Freedley Memorial Award as the Best Theater Book of 1968. This is the first volume of Pulitzer Prize-winning Louis Sheaffer's monumental biography of America's greatest playwright. Here is groundbreaking information on every aspect of O'Neill's life up to 1920, when he was launched on Broadway with the opening of "Beyond the Horizon." Louis Sheaffer spent sixteen years researching and writing his well-honored biography. For his work on O'Neill Mr. Sheaffer was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships, two grants-in-aid by the American Council of Learned Societies, and a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
O'Neill: Son and Artist, Volume 2
by Louis SheafferThe second volume in the biography of the playwright Eugene O'Neill, O'Neill, Son and Artist brings Louis Sheaffer's monumental biography of America's foremost playwright to a poignant, dramatic conclusion. Together with the previous volume, O'Neill, Son and Playwright, Sheaffer's biography now stands complete as the most authoritative study ever written about the life of Eugene O'Neill. Based on many sources hitherto unknown or inaccessible, in addition to all the established standard sources, this volume catches the turmoil of O'Neill's private life and illuminates how it shaped and haunted his artistic achievements. Sheaffer introduces fresh material uncovered during seven years of research that recounts O'Neill's personal life in intimate, harrowing detail: the deaths of his family, one by one in rapid succession; the bouts with liquor that nearly killed him; his manic temperament and insatiable restlessness; his acute discomfort in the role of father and the disastrous affect it had on his children; his Strindbergian marriage to Carlotta Monterey, characterized by total dependence and often enough deep hatred on both sides; his later illness, which left him unable to write or dictate, but with a mind at the height of its artistic and intellectual powers. From O'Neill's first Broadway success in 1920, Beyond the Horizon, Sheaffer examines the effect of these crises on his career, most notably on the creation of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night. And he refocuses on O'Neill's past, particularly his relations with his family--"the fountainhead of his passion and power"--as this most private dramatist reveals himself more and more nakedly in his plays, finally baring all in his tragic masterpiece of the "four haunted Tyrones," Long Day's Journey Into Night. Vigorously written, scrupulously researched, compassionate in its treatment of the tormented man who "transmuted private history and secret anguish into art," O'Neill, Son and Artist takes its place beside its prizewinning companion volume as a landmark American biography.
Onionheads
by Jesse MillerFull Length, Drama \ 2 m., 2 f. \ 2 simple exts. \ This soulful play takes a raw, poetic look at the plight of onion farmers on the edge in the 1935 Oklahoma Dust Bowl. The Tidwell brothers and the Bumpinmeyer sisters explore young love, hard times and loss of family as the sky turns black and the onions die. When the sisters leave for Califor nee, a shocking truth hits the Tidwell farm and the boys are left with the relentless dust. Devastated, they follow the girls to the "land of milk an' honey" where, months later in a migrant camp in the grip of the Great Depression, they find the sisters buried in poverty and prostitution. The black secret of the Bumpinmeyer family is discovered. Skins are peeled in layers to reveal the sweet and the sour. Tragically, the dirt on these onion pickers never comes clean; the "land of plenty" grows nothing but the cries of dead hearts and broken Okies. Meanwhile, the devil sits in his shack, laughing. \ Winner of the 1999 American College Theatre Festival.
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
by Drew Hayden TaylorThis is the emotional story of a woman's struggle to acknowledge her origins. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a White family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother's funeral. Afraid of opening old wounds, Grace must find a place where the culture of her past can feed the truth of her present.
The Only Game in Town
by Frank D. GilroyDramatic Comedy / 2m, 1f / The author of The Subject Was Roses here turns his attention in this play to that fascinating arena of romance and broken dreams known as Las Vegas. The title is a trenchant comment on both gambling and love. The scene opens with a piano player and a chorine entering her apartment shortly after meeting two lonely wayward souls adrift in the world. He, it turns out, is a compulsive gambler just biding his time till he gets the bankroll with which he plans to make his fortune at the wheels, while she has a fixation about unattainable men. While he is waiting for his kitty to grow and she is waiting for her married suitor to come and rescue her, they both fall in love. When the suitor finally arrives, she shows him the gate; and when the kitty finally swells to $3600, the piano player loses it quickly only to hock his watch, start over, and amass the bundle he always knew was his. A fond and humorous romance.
Only Kidding
by Jim GeoghanFull length, comedy / 5m / Three interiors / In this Off Broadway hit, an over the hill comic who is desperate for a shot on a late night TV show has invited a hip young writer to his cottage in the Catskills to help him update his act. They might as well be talking in tongues about what is funny! The second act moves to a seedy club where the mafia connected owner wants aspiring comics to sign a contract giving him a commission on their future earnings. Then the play goes to comedy heaven: backstage at that late night TV show. The older comedian awaits his last chance at the big time and one of the comics from Act 2 is getting his first shot.
The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape
by Katherine Brewer BallIn The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint. Stories of escape are never told just once but become mythic in their episodic iterations, revealing the fantasies and desires of society, the storyteller, and the listener. While white escape narratives have typically been laden with Enlightenment fantasies of redemption where freedom is available to any individual willing to seize it, Brewer Ball explores how Black and queer escape offer forms of radical possibility. Drawing on Black studies, queer theory, and performance studies, she examines a range of works, from nineteenth-century American literature to contemporary queer of color art and writing by contemporary American artists including Wilmer Wilson IV, Tourmaline, Tony Kushner, Junot Díaz, Glenn Ligon, Toshi Reagon, and Sharon Hayes. Throughout, escape emerges as a story not of individuality but of collectivity and entanglement.
Onstage and Offstage Worlds in Shakespeare's Plays (Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare)
by Anthony BrennanOriginally published in 1989, this book focuses on the handling of the relationship between the onstage world and the offstage world, between the world that Shakespeare shows us and the one he tells us about. It is developed in two parts. Initially examined is the way reports are used in Shakespeare to relate the offstage and onstage worlds, building from simple examples within individual scenes in various plays to related sequences of reports which can be evaluated as part of broader strategies effecting the structure of a whole play. In the second part the author examines the ways in which several, or all, of these strategies work in individual plays, and what combined effect the prominent employment of them has in shaping the effect of the plays. In all cases the author is concerned to indicate why Shakespeare chose to handle matters as he does rather than in other ways available in the sources or in the speculative alternative methods which can be imaginatively constructed.
Oohrah!
by Bekah BrunstetterDramatic Comedy / 4m, 3f / Interior Set / Bekah Brunstetter makes her Off Broadway debut in September 2009 at the Atlantic Theatre Company! Ron is back from his third and final tour in Iraq, and his wife Sara is excited to restart their life together in their new home. When a young marine visits the family, life is turned upside down. Sara’s sister is swept off her feet; her daughter Lacey trades her dresses for combat boots, and Ron gets hungry for real military action. In this disarmingly funny and candid drama, Bekah Brunstetter raises challenging questions about what it means when the military is woven into the fabric of a family, and service is far more than just a job. / “The young scribe's talent and potential are obvious in this Southern-basted dramatic comedy about the war mystique as it plays out on the American home front…” — Variety
Op de drempel
by Jannie Meijer Francesco ChianteseEen kort essay over theater van Francesco Chiantese met enkele notities over zijn eerste twintig jaar van theateronderzoek. In limine - Notities voor een theater van symptomen is een verzameling korte notities, bespiegelingen en vragen die Francesco Chiantese zichzelf heeft gesteld in de eerste twintig jaar van zijn leven met theater. Centraal in dit essay staat een gesprek met een van zijn leerlingen. De foto op het omslag is van Daniela Neri www.danielaneri.eu Kan theateronderzoek een nieuw "volkstheater" opleveren? Wat is het "bijgeloof van het begrip"? In welke relatie staat het onderzoek tot de theatertraditie? Kunnen we spreken van een "theater van symptomen"? Francesco Chiantese, theateronderzoeker en een van de velen die de "verborgen scene" van het Italiaanse theateronderzoek begeesteren, stelt deze vragen centraal in zijn bespiegelingen over theater. In limine is een kort essay waarin meer vragen, twijfels en vraagtekens aan bod komen dan antwoorden worden gegeven. Dit essay is geschreven als een flessenpost, in de hoop dat iemand het toevallig vindt en een dialoog wil starten. Genre: UITVOERENDE KUNSTEN / Theater / Algemeen
Opal
by Robert Lindsey NassifMusical / 3m, 6f, 1f child / Unit set / This award winning Off Broadway hit from the composer/lyricist of Honky Tonk Highway is magical, delightful, poignant and poetic. It tells the story of a seven year old aristocratic girl who is orphaned in a shipwreck and placed in an Oregon lumber camp in 1904. Her one desire is to find the secret way to return to her parents and her former life. To survive, she creates a world of fantasy and enchantment. The magic of her extraordinary imagination transforms the lives of those around her the shy lumberjack, the blind girl and her embittered foster mother. Finally, in the ashes of a devastating forest fire, Opal discovers hope and home.
Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s (The History of the Broadway Musical)
by Ethan MorddenIn the 1960s, the Broadway musical was revolutionized from an entertainment characterized by sentimental standards, such as Camelot and Hello, Dolly!, to one of brilliant and bittersweet masterpieces, such as Cabaret and Fiddler on the Roof. In Open a New Window, Ethan Mordden continues his history of the Broadway musical with the decade that bridged the gap between the romantic, fanciful entertainments of the fifties, such as Call Me, Madam, to the seventies when sophisticated fare, such as A Little Night Music and Follies, was commonplace. Here in brilliant detail is the decade and the people that forever transformed the Broadway muscial.
Open-Air Shakespeare: Under Australian Skies
by Rosemary GabyMany people today first encounter staged Shakespeare in an open-air setting. This book traces the history of open-air Shakespeares in Australia to investigate why the anomaly of adapting 400-year old plays under Australian skies exerts such a strong appeal.
The Open Doors (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Purple #Level R)
by Jane O'ReillyThe Open Doors based on "The Open Window," a short story by Saki
The Open House
by Will Eno"Mr. Eno has established himself as one of the most vital, distinctive voices in the American theater over the past decade. Once encountered, his style is not likely to be forgotten: Wryly humorous and deeply engaged in the odd kinks and quirks of language and its fuzzy relationship to meaning, his plays are also infused with a haunted awareness of, and a sorrowful compassion for, the fundamental solitude of existence." -New York Times"An anarchic and deliciously clever play." -Huffington PostThis wildly funny and subversive take on the archetypal family drama is dense with authentic feeling and pain and it ultimately evolves into something haunted and mysterious and grand, even hopeful. The Open House won a Drama Desk Award, the 2014 Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. It was on the Top Ten Plays of 2014 lists of TIME magazine, Time Out New York and the NY Daily News. Will Eno is the author of The Realistic Joneses and Thom Pain (based on nothing) , which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Other works include Middletown, The Flu Season, Tragedy: a tragedy, Intermission and Gnit. He is a Residency Five Fellow at Signature Theatre in New York. His many awards include the PEN/Laura Pels Award, the Horton Foote Prize and the first-ever Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship by the Theater Hall of Fame.
Open Secrets
by Dale WassermanDramatic Comedy / 4m, 3f / Two one-act plays BOY ON BLACKTOP ROAD and THE STALLION HOWL may be joined to make a full theatre evening, or may also be performed separately. If together, there is almost a complete overlap of cast. The subject is retroactive jealousy, specifically sexual jealousy. A seemingly happy couple in the Midwest is subjected to severe strain when the wife is left a large gift of money by a notorious womanizer with whom, presumably, she once had a relationship. Will the happy marriage now shatter? Surprises occur, and the play makes a brave (but possibly reckless) attempt to answer Dr. Freud's famous question: "What do women want?"
Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori
by Martin Kagel David Z. SaltzThis volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914–2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish experience, particularly the Holocaust. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori’s work has received scant attention in American letters, in spite of its significance for U.S. theater and Holocaust studies. Until Tabori, most dramas about the Holocaust were either rooted in American domestic realism, striving to create a strong empathetic connection between the audience and Holocaust victims, or featured an unembellished documentary style. Tabori staked out a third position, beyond realism and documentation. The volume brings together the voices of international scholars to provide a comprehensive introduction to Tabori’s theater as well as in-depth analyses of his work, discussing all of his major plays. Individual essays address Tabori’s postdramatic theater in relation to sacrificial ritual, performance studies, and post-humanist approaches to the contemporary stage, as well as performance aspects of his productions, questions of ethics and aesthetics raised by his theater, and his plays’ relation to Holocaust representation in popular culture.
Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori
by Martin Kagel David Z. SaltzThis volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914–2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish experience, particularly the Holocaust. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori’s work has received scant attention in American letters, in spite of its significance for U.S. theater and Holocaust studies. Until Tabori, most dramas about the Holocaust were either rooted in American domestic realism, striving to create a strong empathetic connection between the audience and Holocaust victims, or featured an unembellished documentary style. Tabori staked out a third position, beyond realism and documentation. The volume brings together the voices of international scholars to provide a comprehensive introduction to Tabori’s theater as well as in-depth analyses of his work, discussing all of his major plays. Individual essays address Tabori’s postdramatic theater in relation to sacrificial ritual, performance studies, and post-humanist approaches to the contemporary stage, as well as performance aspects of his productions, questions of ethics and aesthetics raised by his theater, and his plays’ relation to Holocaust representation in popular culture.
Opening Night
by Norm FosterThe madcap antics start as Jack and Ruth Tisdale celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with an evening at the theatre. It's a dream come true for Ruth and an imposition for Jack who would rather be at home watching the World Series. However, after the events both on and off the stage that fateful night, their lives and those of all of those involved are irreparably altered.
Opera: The Definitive Illustrated History
by Alan Riding Leslie Dunton-DownerExperience the passion and drama of the world&’s greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide.Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world&’s most celebrated operas and discover the fascinating stories behind them. Explore the lives of singers such as Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Jonas Kaufmann. Meet composers like Mozart, Wagner, and Britten, and the librettists with whom they collaborated to create the magical blend of words and music that make up opera.From its origins in the 17th-century courts of Italy to live screenings in public spaces today, Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story follows the history of opera from Monteverdi&’s L'Orfeo in 1607, to Cosi fan Tutte, La Bohème, and modern operas such as Brokeback Mountain. It explains musical terminology, traces historical developments, and sets everything in a cultural context.This awe-inspiring opera book further features:-Includes all of the most important operas from the Renaissance to the 21st century-Profiles the key composers, librettists, performers, and companies, with details of their lives, works, and influence-Arranged in chronological order to show the evolution of the genre-Clear, informative explanation of musical terminology and different types of operaThis book revels in the sets and costumes that make up the grand spectacle of opera. It also explores the great opera houses of the world, such as La Scala, Milan, the Met in New York, and the Sydney Opera House. Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story is the essential book for anyone who wants to understand and enjoy the constantly evolving world of this beloved art form.Did you know that there are more than 25,000 opera performances per year worldwide? Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story can be regarded as the most lavishly illustrated history of opera currently available, covering all of the most important operas from the Renaissance to the 21st century, and is completely global in scope. A must-have volume for opera buffs, whether as a gift or self-purchase, if you&’re a music lover looking for an accessible introduction to opera, then this is the book for you!
Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension of Opera Productions (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Clemens RisiOpera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions. What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers’ bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera. This book will particularly interest scholars and students in theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities, and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.
Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
by Blair HoxbySince the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians have denied a meaningful connection between the tragedy of the ancients and the efforts of early modern composers to arrive at styles that were intensely dramatic. Drawing on a series of case studies, Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi traces the productive, if at times rivalrous, relationship between opera and tragedy from the institution of French regular tragedy under Richelieu in the 1630s to the reform of opera championed by Calzabigi and Gluck in the late eighteenth century. Blair Hoxby and his fellow contributors shed light on “neighbouring forms” of theatre, including pastoral drama, tragédie en machines, tragédie en musique, and Goldoni’s dramma giocoso. Their analysis includes famous masterpieces by Corneille, Voltaire, Metastasio, Goldoni, Calzabigi, Handel, and Gluck, as well as lesser-known artists such as Luisa Bergalli, the first female librettist to write for the public theatre in Italy. Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi delves into a series of quarrels and debates in order to illuminate the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre.
Operación: Limpieza General
by Natalia Boccaccio Norberta De MeloOperación: Limpieza General Un romance libremente inspirado en una operación real en Lava Jato en Brasil. Esta historia sucede en Pindoretama. El fiscal general se encontraba en el medio de los escandalos políticos donde las autoridades mas importantes del país estaban involucradas. En este escenario caotico , Roberto Nascimiento se enamora con una funcionaria pública. Su amada Nina estaba involucrada en una operación policiaca. ¿ Podra él protegerla? ¿Podran ellos finalmente vivir su amor en esas situaciones?
Operación Cambista (Pindoretama #2)
by Norberta De MeloPrólogo El Fiscal General de la Nación Roberto Nascimento y su amada Nina Moreira aparentemente formaban una pareja que vivía un período de paz. Incluso viviendo en ciudades diferentes, se veían con relativa frecuencia. El segundo mandato de Roberto estaba siendo afectado por el primero, durante el cual se desató la Operación Faxina Geral en Pindoratema. Mucha gente ya estaba cumpliendo pena, o al menos había sido presa o estaba respondiendo a diversos procesos. Parecía que todo estaba bajo un relativo control. Solo lo parecía. Esa no era, sin embargo, su realidad. Un descuido y todo podría venirse abajo. Había mucha gente queriendo vengarse de ellos. Sus enemigos no lo dejarían en paz. Ellos lo sabían. Hasta una tentativa de asesinato al fiscal ya había sufrido. Entonces, cualquier desliz podría ser fatal. No solo en el campo profesional, sino que también en su vida personal. Nina podría soportar muchas cosas por causa del amor que tenían. Incluso para una mujer de ideas propias como ella, había límites que él sabía que no debería pasar. ¿Sería capaz de percibirlo y para cuando fuera necesario? Esa era una cuestión que se volvería central en sus vidas. ****** Roberto participaba de los juicios del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia como miembro del Ministerio Público. Esas sesiones estaban lejos de ser una rutina, como solían ser antes de la Operación Faxina Geral. Los ojos de la nación estaban orientados hacia la TV Ciudadana. Los juicios los acompañaba la población con gran interés. Era como si cada uno de ellos fuera un capítulo de novela, solo que al contrario de la ficción, eran la vida real. Para el Fiscal General, las sesiones tenían un gusto a victoria, puesto que llegar hasta allí había sido fruto de su trabajo y del de mucha gente que creía que podría cambiar al país. Pindoratema es un país relativamente nuevo, con una historia de golpes de Estado y pequeños intervalos