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Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard
ISBN: 9780230604711 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind s darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be mobilized against belligerent cultural forces. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare, Stoppard, and a number of other comic masters, Comedy Matters demonstrates how comedy continues to work against cultural regimentation by striving to re-calibrate our decision-making processes and challenging the stultifying rigidity of human economy in the...
Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of m...
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372,50 zł |
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Women Writing Plays: Three Decades of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
ISBN: 9780292713291 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. A comprehensive overview of women's playwriting in English and a celebration of the most respected award given to women playwrights.
A comprehensive overview of women's playwriting in English and a celebration of the most respected award given to women playwrights.
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179,76 zł |
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The Plays of Josefina Niggli: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature
ISBN: 9780299224509 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Josefina Niggli (1910-1983) was one of the most successful Mexican American writers of the early twentieth century. Born of European parents and raised in Mexico, she spent most of her adult life in the United States, and in her plays and novels she aimed to portray authentic Mexican experiences for English-speaking audiences. Niggli crossed borders, cultures, and genres, and her life and work prompt interesting questions about race, class, gender, modernity, ethnic and national identity, and the formation of literary canons.
Although Niggli... Josefina Niggli (1910-1983) was one of the most successful Mexican American writers of the early twentieth century. Born of European parents and ...
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404,71 zł |
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The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide
ISBN: 9780325007861 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. David Spencer has written a book full of truths a young writer will not find articulated anywhere else. Most of us in the theatre gained our "experience" by making mistakes and learning from them. David's book lets you gain the "experience" and skip the mistakes part. Anyone maneuvering the treacherous waters of musicals will find it not nearly so lonely or baffling with this remarkable volume as a companion. Consider The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide... David Spencer has written a book full of truths a young writer will not find articulated anywhere else. Most of us in the theatre gained our "e... |
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95,35 zł |
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Terry Pratchett Interesting Times
ISBN: 9780413772190 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor. He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax gatherer and a group of seven very elderly barbarian heroes lead by Cohen the Barbarian. Opposing him, though, is the evil and manipulative Lord Hong and his army of 750,000 men. Oh?Rincewind is also aided by Twoflower - Discworld's first tourist and... A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in An... |
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73,59 zł |
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Tony Kushner in Conversation
ISBN: 9780472066612 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. In the Fall of 1992, Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, won England's prestigious Evening Standard award as the season's Best Play. By the Spring of 1993, Millennium had come to Broadway and won its highest honor, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the distinguished Pulitzer Prize for drama as well. Through its epic theatrical panorama of the intimate and political dynamics that arise when individuals, histories, and cultures intersect, Millennium captured the imagination and the conscience of all who saw it. Its...
In the Fall of 1992, Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, won England's prestigious Evening Sta...
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136,63 zł |
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David Mamet in Conversation
ISBN: 9780472067640 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), and Oleanna have enjoyed popular and critical success in the past two decades. Among the most prolific and provocative of writers, Mamet frequently draws emotional responses from both audiences and critics. Mamet in Conversation collects interviews with the playwright that offer readers insight into his life in the theater, his artistic vision, and the evolution of his craft. The interviews help followers of...
Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won...
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105,69 zł |
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David Mamet in Conversation
ISBN: 9780472097647 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work
A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work
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317,07 zł |
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Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops: Adapting Current Events, Social Issues, Life Stories, New
ISBN: 9780595345977 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Here's a guide book on how to write 45-minute one-act plays, skits, and monologues for "all ages." Step-by-step strategies and sample play, monologue, and animation script offer easy-to-understand solutions for drama workshop leaders, high-school and university drama directors, teachers, students, parents, coaches, playwrights, scriptwriters, novelists, storytellers, camp counselors, actors, lifelong learning instructors, biographers, facilitators, personal historians, and senior center activity directors.
Guide young people in an intergenerational experience of interviewing and writing... Here's a guide book on how to write 45-minute one-act plays, skits, and monologues for "all ages." Step-by-step strategies and sample play, monologue,...
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98,22 zł |
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Ethno-Playography: How to Create Salable Ethnographic Plays, Monologues, & Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, and Current Events-For
ISBN: 9780595460663 / Angielski / Miękka / 652 str. |
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167,14 zł |
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Aeschylus: Persians
ISBN: 9780715632864 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Aeschylus' Persians is the earliest extant Greek tragedy and sole surviving historical tragedy. Produced in 472 BC, the play tells the story of the defeat of the Persian king Xerxes in his attempt to expand his empire by conquering Greece and his return in rags to Persia to face the condemnation of his elders. The first product of the Western imagination to represent the causes and limits of imperialist conquest, the Persians is particularly relevant today. The play is rich in verbal and visual imagery and unflinching in its depiction of the horrors of a defeated invasion and the glory of... Aeschylus' Persians is the earliest extant Greek tragedy and sole surviving historical tragedy. Produced in 472 BC, the play tells the story of the... |
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120,24 zł |
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Playwriting for Puppet Theatre
ISBN: 9780810833241 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. This book covers the necessary steps of puppet play development from initial ideas to a finished script. It also examines various approaches and includes a number of sample scripts.
This book covers the necessary steps of puppet play development from initial ideas to a finished script. It also examines various approaches and inclu...
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237,14 zł |
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Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco
ISBN: 9780815411413 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. This is an extraordinarily important and unique book that is essential for playwrights, theater enthusiasm and courses on drama.
This is an extraordinarily important and unique book that is essential for playwrights, theater enthusiasm and courses on drama.
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82,53 zł |
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Theater Volume 36 Russian Theater: The Twenty-First Century Number 1
ISBN: 9780822366560 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Featuring essays by Russian and American critics and scholars, this book presents major developments in the Russian theatre since 2000. It chronicles the sweeping cultural and institutional changes in the Russian theatre and provides an overview of the regional theatre system in the world's most geographically vast country.
Featuring essays by Russian and American critics and scholars, this book presents major developments in the Russian theatre since 2000. It chronicles ...
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56,66 zł |
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Theatre and Autobiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780889225404 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and students of AutoBiography, a research subject now viewed as respectable in academic circles, have recently mapped the contours and shifting parameters of the autobiographical and the biographical processes, thereby contributing to the profile and stature of both. This collection brings theatre practitioners together with academics from three continents in a groundbreaking exploration of the...
That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the...
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123,90 zł |
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Writing Musical Theater
ISBN: 9781403963956 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in which writers can market a finished show and get it produced. For the interested theatregoer and writers, it is written in a lively and user-friendly style and illustrated with numerous examples.
This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in w...
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395,39 zł |
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Playwrights on Playmaking, and Other Studies of the Stage
ISBN: 9781410214898 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. CONTENTS Playwrights on Playmaking Undramatic Criticism Old Plays and New Playgoers Tragedies with Happy Endings On the Advantage of Having a Pattern Did Shakespeare Write Plays to Fit His Actors? Strange Shakespearian Performances Thackeray and the Theater Mark Twain and the Theater Henry James and the Theater Stage Humor The "Old Comedies" The Organization of the Theater Memories of Actors At the time of original publication in 1923, Brander Matthews was Professor of Dramatic Literature in Columbia University, and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
CONTENTS Playwrights on Playmaking Undramatic Criticism Old Plays and New Playgoers Tragedies with Happy Endings On the Advantage of Having a Pattern ...
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93,11 zł |
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The Playwright's Voice: American Dramatists on Memory, Writing and the Politics of Culture
ISBN: 9781559361637 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. These 15 interviews illustrate the diversity of modern American theater and examine what makes it a unique art form. Savran (English, Brown U.) discusses the work, artistic influences, and the state of contemporary American theater and its meaning and purpose with artists including Tony Kushner, JosT Rivera, Ntozake Shange, and Anna Deveare Smith.
These 15 interviews illustrate the diversity of modern American theater and examine what makes it a unique art form. Savran (English, Brown U.) discus...
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70,12 zł |
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Sanctus Fumigaci Collected Works Volume 2: Short Plays
ISBN: 9781598582451 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Todd Bash is among the most adventurous and uncompromising playwrights in the world today. Often shattering the conventions of traditional theatre, and overflowing with dream-like imagery, his style recalls the experiments of the Paris Surrealists during the 1920s, as well as writers such as Alfred Jarry, Bertolt Brecht and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. SANCTUS FUMIGACI - Collected Works Volume 2 brings together eight of Bash's most challenging plays, spanning the years 1989 through 2005. Provocative, haunting and deeply personal, they are necessary reading for anyone with a serious interest...
Todd Bash is among the most adventurous and uncompromising playwrights in the world today. Often shattering the conventions of traditional theatre, an...
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64,64 zł |
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From Luababa to Polk County: Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
ISBN: 9781934074053 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. This fully edited volume contains nine of Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished plays at the Library of Congress, including three of her full-length plays: Polk County, Cold Keener and De Turkey and De Law. This book is expected be a major contribution to American literary scholarship as it portrays customary African American life in the 20th century through a highly nonconformist African American lens. Zora Neale Hurston is a world-renowned author, best known for her fiction and folklore, including her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road...
This fully edited volume contains nine of Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished plays at the Library of Congress, including three of her full-length plays:...
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86,66 zł |
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