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Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard
ISBN: 9780230604711 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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194,97 zł |
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Women Writing Plays: Three Decades of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
ISBN: 9780292713291 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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125,15 zł |
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24 Favorite One Act Plays
ISBN: 9780385066174 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, and A.A. Milne.
Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur ...
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104,83 zł |
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Terry Pratchett Interesting Times
ISBN: 9780413772190 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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62,55 zł |
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Tony Kushner in Conversation
ISBN: 9780472066612 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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137,01 zł |
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David Mamet in Conversation
ISBN: 9780472067640 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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104,07 zł |
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David Mamet in Conversation
ISBN: 9780472097647 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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329,49 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. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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87,14 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. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,29 zł |
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Aeschylus: Persians
ISBN: 9780715632864 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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119,94 zł |
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Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco
ISBN: 9780815411413 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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87,14 zł |
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New Downtown Now: An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York
ISBN: 9780816647316 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when most serious drama being written and produced for the American stage aspires only to mainstream acceptance and high-toned mediocrity, an innovative new generation of playwrights based in New York City has emerged, crafting works that challenge and undermine the conventional structure, language, and characterization of commercial theater while rejecting outdated notions of the avant-garde. New Downtown Now brings together ten new works that exemplify the playfulness, excitement, and possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms,...
At a time when most serious drama being written and produced for the American stage aspires only to mainstream acceptance and high-toned mediocrity, a...
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104,29 zł |
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Writing Musical Theater
ISBN: 9781403963956 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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467,99 zł |
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Playwrights on Playmaking, and Other Studies of the Stage
ISBN: 9781410214898 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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83,12 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. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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91,50 zł |
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The Play within the Play : The Performance of Meta-Theatre and Self-Reflection
ISBN: 9789042022577 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting - from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy - but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized...
The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide rang...
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623,34 zł |
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Anzac to Understanding: Including "Anzac, the Play: A Saga of War and Peace in the 20th Century" and "A Quest for Understanding"
ISBN: 9781434327185 / Angielski / Miękka / 820 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Anzac, the Play: A Saga of War and Peace in the 20th Century," was written in Berkeley in 1969, published in 1971 and produced at the Globe Playhouse Los Angeles in 1984 with readings at the Lankershim Arts Center, No-Ho, North Hollywood in 1996. Accompanying the play, is historical documentation of the lives of the families from whom the characters were drawn as well as war letters of Willie Augustus Mann, 1914-1919, his own story and relevant pages from the Anzac Book, written by the Anzacs themselves, published in 1916. "A Quest for Understanding" is rooted in this Great War, the First...
"Anzac, the Play: A Saga of War and Peace in the 20th Century," was written in Berkeley in 1969, published in 1971 and produced at the Globe Playhouse...
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200,64 zł |
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Men at Play : Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s
ISBN: 9789042023574 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men's experiences of war and migration? Men at Play explores theatre's role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays...
How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and o...
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322,57 zł |
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The Vapours: a play
ISBN: 9781515150787 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cristabel Cuellar visits a lonely town in the Pacific Northwest ostensibly to investigate an auto accident, but in fact she's looking for signs of the Hollow Earth. Her claimant, Judith, has been having nightmares of a devilish figure who takes her on a tour of the Underworld. Together they go on a journey that will change their lives forever. A new full-length play by the author of CLOWNTIME IS OVER and EINSTEIN'S WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING, THE VAPOURS covers esoteric territory in the context of a thriller in which digging too deeply may uncover literal monsters.
Cristabel Cuellar visits a lonely town in the Pacific Northwest ostensibly to investigate an auto accident, but in fact she's looking for signs of the...
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41,04 zł |
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The Collected Plays
ISBN: 9780099286257 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Bell Chimes In these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, and together they exhibit a daring wit and an exhilarating sense of experiment.
The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Be...
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93,30 zł |
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