Genesis of an American Playwright

Genesis of an American Playwright
Title Genesis of an American Playwright PDF eBook
Author Horton Foote
Publisher Baylor University Press
Pages 310
Release 2004
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0918954916

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Besides To Kill A Mockingbird and The Trip To Bountiful, Foote has written a score of notable plays, teleplays, and films.

Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets
Title Clifford Odets PDF eBook
Author Margaret Brenman-Gibson
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages 788
Release 2002
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781557834577

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(Applause Books). Clifford Odets through his plays, which include "Waiting for Lefty" and "Awake" and "Sing!", was the champion of the oppressed, avenger for the poor. He and his plays, as presented by the influential Group Theatre, were the conscience of America during the Depression. Author Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a respected psychoanalyst and close personal friend, penned what is considered the classic biography of Odets. Based on exhaustive research, including access to his personal papers, plus her own insights into the man and his career, it is at last back in prtin. The book is richly annotated, with a thorough bibliography, personal chronology, a list of Odets' works, published and unpublished, and a section of rare photographs.

Improbable Patriot

Improbable Patriot
Title Improbable Patriot PDF eBook
Author Harlow G. Unger
Publisher UPNE
Pages 255
Release 2011
Genre History
ISBN 1584659254

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The outrageous true story of the French plot to supply arms and ammunition to Washington's Continental Army, and the bold French spy, inventor, playwright, and rogue behind it all

American Playwright...

American Playwright...
Title American Playwright... PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 456
Release 1912
Genre Drama
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The Book of Will

The Book of Will
Title The Book of Will PDF eBook
Author Lauren Gunderson
Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages 95
Release 2018-06-18
Genre Drama
ISBN 0822237725

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Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays
Title The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays PDF eBook
Author David Adjmi
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 526
Release 2013-03-28
Genre Drama
ISBN 1472503430

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The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall's Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn's Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.

The Crucible

The Crucible
Title The Crucible PDF eBook
Author Arthur Miller
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1982
Genre Salem (Mass.)
ISBN

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