A Trilogy of Performances

A Trilogy of Performances
Title A Trilogy of Performances PDF eBook
Author Sandra Shamas
Publisher Mercury Press (Canada)
Pages 164
Release 1997
Genre Drama
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Sandra Shamas is the brilliant comedic storyteller whose new one-woman show, Wit’s End, is being toured across Canada. A Trilogy of Performances, nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Drama and for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Award for Humour, collects Sandra Shamas’ three hit comedy shows: My Boyfriend’s Back and There’s Gonna Be Laundry; My Boyfriend’s Back and There’s Gonna Be Laundry II; and Wedding Bell Hell.

Caught in the Act

Caught in the Act
Title Caught in the Act PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 136
Release 1996
Genre Art
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Award-winning photographer McAdams began covering the performance front for the Village Voice in 1984. This collection gives us an exhilarating, front-row-center look at multimedia performance art as captured in her exuberant black-and-white photographs. The oversize (9.25x12.25) documentary also

The Theban Plays

The Theban Plays
Title The Theban Plays PDF eBook
Author Sophocles
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 285
Release 2009-03-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0801895413

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Sophocles’ Theban Plays—Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—lie at the core of the Western literary canon. They are extensively translated, universally taught, and frequently performed. Chronicling the downfall of Oedipus, the legendary king of Thebes, and his descendants, the Theban Plays are as relevant to present-day thought about love, duty, patriotism, family, and war as when they were written 2,500 years ago. Recent translations of the plays, while linguistically correct, often fail to capture the beauty of Sophocles’ original words. In combining the skills of a distinguished poet, Ruth Fainlight, and an eminent classical scholar, Robert J. Littman, this new edition of the Theban Plays is both a major work of poetry and a faithful translation of the original works. Thoughtful introductions, extensive notes, and glossaries frame each of the plays within their historical contexts and illuminate important themes, mythological roots, and previous interpretations. This elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation of readers.

The Performance

The Performance
Title The Performance PDF eBook
Author Claire Thomas
Publisher Penguin
Pages 240
Release 2021-03-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN 059332918X

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A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything. One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over. Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone. While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all. Deliciously intimate and yet emotionally wide-ranging, The Performance is a novel that both explores the inner lives of women as it underscores the power of art and memory to transform us.

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners
Title The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners PDF eBook
Author Franc Chamberlain
Publisher Routledge
Pages 663
Release 2020-08-16
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 131735740X

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
Title The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance PDF eBook
Author Dennis Kennedy
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 705
Release 2010-08-26
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0199574197

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An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.

The Slab Boys Trilogy

The Slab Boys Trilogy
Title The Slab Boys Trilogy PDF eBook
Author John Byrne
Publisher Faber & Faber
Pages 219
Release 2015-04-16
Genre Drama
ISBN 0571325785

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Spanning the 1950s to the 70s, the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair. John Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre: the scams, the dreams, the aloof but gorgeous girl, the despair of life back home, the obligatory tormenting of the office 'weed', and the mandatory boy chat and pranks all help the day to pass. Phil and Spanky explode onto the stage in a classic vaudeville double-act. Now considered one of Scotland's defining literary works of the twentieth century, the Slab Boys Trilogy premiered at the Traverse back in the late 1970s and early 80s taking Scotland, then Britain, and then Broadway quickly by storm.