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The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters
ISBN: 9781557832191 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). "Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater, much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by regional theaters. This is doubly true of plays by African American authors, who, despite a few notable exceptions (August Wilson, George C. Wolfe), suffer under a commercial apartheid that keeps black plays off Broadway. Of necessity, African American theater artists have to create their own venues from the ground up. This wide-ranging anthology edited by the founder of the New Federal Theater celebrates the work of that company's black-owned,...
(Applause Books). "Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater, much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by reg...
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96,80 zł |
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Amazon All-Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays: with Essays and Commentary
ISBN: 9781557832207 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). Collects for the first time major lesbian plays from controversial cultural perspectives spanning more than a generation of work in varied theatrical styles representing an amazing gamut of lesbian politics from all over America. Includes: The Quintessential Image (Jane Chambers) * The Postcard (Gloria Joyce Dickler) * A Lady and a Woman (Shirlene Holmes) * Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks (Susan Miller) * Desdemona (Paula Vogel) * and more
(Applause Books). Collects for the first time major lesbian plays from controversial cultural perspectives spanning more than a generation of work in ...
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91,76 zł |
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The Best American Short Plays 1994-1995
ISBN: 9781557832320 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume includes plays by Christopher Durang, Craig Fols, J.E. Franklin, David Mamet, Steve Martin, Elaine May, Max Mitchell, Rich Orlaff, Jacquelyn Reingold, Ronald Ribman, Murray Schisgal, Jules Tasca, Thornton Wilder and Doug Wright.
This volume includes plays by Christopher Durang, Craig Fols, J.E. Franklin, David Mamet, Steve Martin, Elaine May, Max Mitchell, Rich Orlaff, Jacquel...
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77,24 zł |
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The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996
ISBN: 9781557832559 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume includes plays by Lavonne Mueller, Michael Feingold, John Ford Noonan, Cassandra Medley, Janusz Glowacki, Mac Wellman, Susan Cinoman, Jonathan Levy, Paul Selig, Allan Knee, David Ives and William Seebring.
This volume includes plays by Lavonne Mueller, Michael Feingold, John Ford Noonan, Cassandra Medley, Janusz Glowacki, Mac Wellman, Susan Cinoman, Jona...
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77,24 zł |
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Black Comedy: 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays
ISBN: 9781557832788 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). This first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept pace with historical events, like the sit-in demonstrations, the bus boycotts, black nationalism, and the women's liberation movement. A hybrid of comedic forms including satire, farce, comedy of manners, romantic comedy, dark comedy, and tragicomedy are presented through vernacular language, stand-up performance art, masks, broad humor, as well as the minstrel show. Essays,...
(Applause Books). This first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after W...
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96,80 zł |
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Around the World in 21 Plays: Theatre for Young Audiences
ISBN: 9781557833709 / Angielski / Miękka / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). Includes: The Flying Doctor (Moliere) * The Love of Three Oranges (Carlo Gozzi) * Escape to Freedom (Ossie Davis) * No Worries (David Holman) * Soul Gone Home (Langston Hughes) * and more
(Applause Books). Includes: The Flying Doctor (Moliere) * The Love of Three Oranges (Carlo Gozzi) * Escape to Freedom (Ossie Davis) * No Worries (Davi...
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121,00 zł |
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Plays by American Women: 1930-1960
ISBN: 9781557834461 / Angielski / Miękka / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes: Clare Booth's The Women; Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; Shirley Graham's It's Morning; Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All; Fay Kanin's Goodbye, My Fancy; Jane Bowles' In the Summer House; Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind; Halle Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford's Can You Hear Their Voices?
Includes: Clare Booth's The Women; Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; Shirley Graham's It's Morning; Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All; Fay Kanin...
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96,80 zł |
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The Twelve Plays of Christmas: Traditional and Modern Plays for the Holidays
ISBN: 9781557834959 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). Here is a joyous pageant of plays by masters through the ages including Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, Thornton Wilder, Langston Hughes, and Hans Christian Andersen ready to be produced, along with "The Traditional Christmas Pageant" and "The Second Shepherd's Play" in a modernized text and a lively version of "St. George and the Dragon." Comedies like "A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Amahl and the Night Visitors," "Kringle's Window" and "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" stand beside more serious works such as "A Child's Christmas in Wales," "Black Nativity," "Scrooge and Marley,"...
(Applause Books). Here is a joyous pageant of plays by masters through the ages including Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, Thornton Wilder, Langston Hug...
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96,80 zł |
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Forbidden Acts: Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the 20th Century
ISBN: 9781557835871 / Angielski / Miękka / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay and lesbian plays from the entire span of the twentieth century, sure to find wide acceptance by general readers and to be studied on campuses around the world. Among the ten plays, three are completely out of print. Included are The God of Venegeance (1918) by Sholom Ash, the first play to introduce lesbian characters to an English-language audience; Lillian Hellman's classic The Children's Hour (1933), initially banned in London and passed over for the Pulitzer...
(Applause Books). Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay and lesbian plays from ...
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169,48 zł |
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Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays
ISBN: 9781559361477 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first major collection of contemporary Native American writing for the theatre features work by Native American writers throughout the United States, including Hawaii, and also Canada. The plays range from the groundbreaking BODY INDIAN--one of the first to treat Native Americans in a contemporary context--to the black-humored survey of Native American history in INDIAN RADIO DAYS.
This first major collection of contemporary Native American writing for the theatre features work by Native American writers throughout the United Sta...
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95,89 zł |
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Women in American Theatre
ISBN: 9781559362634 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Newly revised and expanded, "Women in American Theatre" is a unique resource that challenges preconceptions by exploring and celebrating the heritage of women in American theater. In this new edition, the editors have collected a series of interviews and essays that address the contributions of women to theater, the recurring patterns of their participation and the problems as well as successes they have encountered in developing their careers. Helen Krich Chinoy is professor emeritus of theater at Smith College, where she taught for over 25 years. Linda Walsh Jenkins formerly was a... Newly revised and expanded, "Women in American Theatre" is a unique resource that challenges preconceptions by exploring and celebrating the herita... |
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76,67 zł |
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International Plays for Young Audiences: Contemporary Works from Leading Playwrights
ISBN: 9781566080651 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colleges, universities and high schools nationwide are seeking up-to-date writing on themes related to cultural diversity. Roger Ellis' previous multicultural anthologies of plays, scenes and monologs have been in popular use for several years. This unique anthology of complete plays is directed specifically to young audiences from new writers of the multicultural experience. Many international cultures are represented including African American, Native American, Central and South American, Caribbean, Pacific Island, Maori, Viking, Irish, Spanish, Gypsy, Canadian, Jewish, Muslim, Pakistani,...
Colleges, universities and high schools nationwide are seeking up-to-date writing on themes related to cultural diversity. Roger Ellis' previous multi...
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115,10 zł |
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New One Act-Plays for Acting Students: A New Anthology of Complete One-Act Plays for One, Two or Three Actors
ISBN: 9781566080842 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays in this drama book range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes 15 scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologs and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avant garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use. Includes four sections:...
This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting cl...
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80,51 zł |
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Make It Mystery: An Anthology of Short Mystery Plays
ISBN: 9781566081153 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Better by the dozen This book of 12 royalty-free mystery plays have running times between 20 and 30 minutes and are perfect for classroom exercises, an evening of one acts, student directed shows, fundraisers and more. Cast sizes range from 4 to 11, and all are either balanced or favoring female roles. No cuttings here These are all full plays including a synopsis, a cast of characters and complete production notes on setting, props, costumes and sound effects. They are especially workable for middle schools and high schools, but there are scripts here for all ages. You'll love the... Better by the dozen This book of 12 royalty-free mystery plays have running times between 20 and 30 minutes and are perfect for classroom exercise... |
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103,57 zł |
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American Plays of the New Woman
ISBN: 9781566632997 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The battle of the sexes reached a near fever pitch in the early years of the twentieth century, in the debate over the "proper" role of women in a rapidly changing and increasingly industrialized society. The six plays that Keith Newlin has selected for this book nicely illustrate the conflicts of that time over such issues as the double standard, the advent of the "New Woman" and turn-of-the-century feminism, and the clash between a woman's career and conventional marriage. The plays are: William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906), Rachel Crothers's A Man's World (1910), Augustus...
The battle of the sexes reached a near fever pitch in the early years of the twentieth century, in the debate over the "proper" role of women in a rap...
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72,39 zł |
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Richard Bean: Plays One
ISBN: 9781840025699 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguiling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart.---The Daily Telegraph Three acclaimed plays from a gifted playwright. Includes The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback and The God Botherers. -Confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguiling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the dar... |
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82,10 zł |
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Singular (Female) Voices
ISBN: 9781854599179 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three plays for one actress all featuring mothers on the edge. Jordan tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy rather than have him taken away by his abusive father. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret alternates stories of two women, both of whom lose their sons, one murdered, the other a runaway. Also includes Unsuspecting Susan. Three plays for one actress all featuring mothers on the edge. Jordan tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy rather ... |
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123,25 zł |
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City Stage - Hong Kong Playwriting in English
ISBN: 9789622097476 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. City Stage is an anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama written for Hong Kong performers and audiences. All the plays were written in the last ten years and so capture and reflect the fast-developing multiculturalism of the Hong Kong scene--a somewhat paradoxical phenomenon in view of the 1997 return to China Mainland sovereignty.
City Stage is an anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama written for Hong Kong performers and audiences. All the plays were writte...
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193,05 zł |
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Jacobean Drama: An Anthology Volume 1
ISBN: 9780393005592 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,90 zł |
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Twilight Gallery: Nine Short Plays from the Fifth Dimension
ISBN: 9780998417325 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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52,42 zł |