Girls We Have Known and Other One Act Plays
Title | Girls We Have Known and Other One Act Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Pape |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822204497 |
THE STORIES: The first play, GIRLS WE HAVE KNOWN, was initially presented by Playwrights Horizons, in New York City, and was a finalist in the Great American Play Festival of the Actors Theatre of Louisville. The action centers on two young buddi
The Director as Collaborator
Title | The Director as Collaborator PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Knopf |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2015-10-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317343425 |
The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theatre productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production, including actors, designers, stage managers and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theatre, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises.
Act Like a Man
Title | Act Like a Man PDF eBook |
Author | Robert H Vorlicky |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2023-06-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0472904205 |
In the first comprehensive study of plays written for male characters only, Robert Vorlicky offers a new theory that links cultural codes governing gender and the conventions determining dramatic form. Act Like a Manlooks at a range of plays, including those by O'Neill, Albee, Mamet, Baraka, and Rabe as well as new works by Philip Kan Gotanda, Alonzo Lamont, and Robin Swados, to examine how dialogue within these works reflects the social codes of male behavior and inhibits individualization among men. Plays in which women are absent are often characterized by the location of a male "other"—a female presence who distances himself from the dominant, impersonal masculine ethos and thereby becomes a facilitator of personal communication. The potential authority of this figure is so powerful that its presence becomes the primary determinant of the quality of men's interaction and of the range of male subjectivities possible. This formulation becomes the basis of an alternative theory of American dramatic construction, one that challenges traditional dramaturgical notions of realism. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in drama, gender, race, sexuality, and American culture, as well as playwrights, teachers of playwrights, and artistic directors. It includes an extensive bibliography of more than four hundred male-cast plays and monodramas, the first such compilation and one that points to further research into a previously unexplored area.
Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays
Title | Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780811216203 |
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.
Dps
Title | Dps PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Pages | 76 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780822227175 |
Power Play : a Play in One Act
Title | Power Play : a Play in One Act PDF eBook |
Author | Lindsay Price |
Publisher | Theatrefolk |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | School violence |
ISBN | 1894870425 |
The One-Act Play Companion
Title | The One-Act Play Companion PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Dolley |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2015-01-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474213898 |
The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard. This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre waiting to be discovered. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered as well as essential contact information and where to apply for performance rights. A chapter introducing the history of the one-act play rounds off the title as a definitive guide.