Download or read book Aunt Dan and Lemon written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action begins in the London flat of Lenora (Lemon), a rather frail, introspective young woman who tells us, with a chilling calm, why she rather admires the Nazis for their refreshing lack of hypocrisy, and who then, in a series of
Download or read book Grasses of a Thousand Colors written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shawn's most outlandish work to date, this disturbing and anomalously beautiful play explores the role of human beings in nature and the role of nature in human beings, sexuality being, as Shawn says, "nature's most obvious footprint in the human soul." The play's central character is a doctor who figures out how to rejigger the metabolism of animals. This discovery has unexpected consequences. The play tells a story about the doctor, his wife, and his lovers that is also a story about the planet we live on.
Download or read book The Designated Mourner written by Wallace Shawn and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work in the writings of Wallace Shawn.
Download or read book Essays written by Wallace Shawn and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of “deceptively simple, profoundly thoughtful, fiercely honest” essays on art, life, and politics by the acclaimed actor and playwright (Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn). Whether writing about the genesis of his plays, such as Aunt Dan and Lemon; discussing how the privileged world of arts and letters takes for granted the people who serve our food and deliver our mail; describing his upbringing in the sheltered world of Manhattan’s cultural elite; or engaging in a fascinating interview with Noam Chomsky, Wallace Shawn has a unique ability to step back from the appearance of things to explore their deeper social meanings. In these essays, Shawn grasps the unpleasant contradictions of modern life and challenges us to look at our own behavior in a more honest light. He also finds the pathos in the political and personal challenges of everyday life. With the same sharp wit and remarkable attention to detail that he brings to his critically acclaimed plays, Shawn invites us to look at the world with new eyes, the better to understand—and change it. “Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality . . . politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not) . . . It’s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind.” —O Magazine “Lovely, hilarious and seriously thought provoking, I enjoyed it tremendously.” —Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Download or read book Four Plays written by Wallace Shawn and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning playwright and actor Wallace Shawn offers four plays with themes that include sexual convention, historical guilt, and the conflict between high and low culture, all described with remarkable and attentive language. Shawn's plays are prizes for any reader ready to be challenged with new, unflinching (and maybe even dangerous) ways of looking at the world.
Download or read book Evening at The Talk House written by Wallace Shawn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly Nellie, there's the same genteel atmosphere, familiar drinks, unchanging special snacks. But the era of Walter Barclay is long gone. A playwright, a composer, an actress. The possibility of a pleasant night. Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2015.
Download or read book Night Thoughts written by Wallace Shawn and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “acerbic yet compassionate” meditation on humanity by the acclaimed actor and playwright offers “curiosity, thoughtfulness, sharp logic, deep emotion” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Beloved actor and Obie Award–winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on civilization and its discontents for decades. Now, having recently passed the age of seventy and watched Donald Trump claim the presidency, he offers a late-stage critique of his species, which he sees as being divided between the lucky and the unlucky. In Night Thoughts, Shawn takes the lucky—himself included—to task for their complacency while offering fascinating reflections on “civilization, morality, Beethoven, 11th-century Japanese court poetry, and his hopes for a better world, among other topics” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Download or read book Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts written by Wallace Shawn and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two early plays by the noted writer and actor Wallace Shawn.
Download or read book Aunt Dan and Lemon written by Tarragon Theatre Archives (University of Guelph) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hotel Play written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The setting is a hotel in the tropics where a beleaguered desk clerk tries to placate, amuse and occasionally seduce the widely varied clientele who come and go during the course of the play's quick flowing action, each acting out a brie
Download or read book The Fever written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The nameless narrator of this blistering monologue lies ill and alone in a dreary hotel room in a poverty-stricken country. A political execution is about to take place beneath his window. Far from the glib comforts of his own life, he s
Download or read book Aunt Dan and Lemon written by Wallace Shawn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling friend of her parents casts a spell over a young girl. A study in the glamour of brutal ideas. 'Aunt Dan and Lemon' was first produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. It received its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in August 1985.
Download or read book Aunt Sandy s Medical Marijuana Cookbook written by Sandy Moriarty and published by Quick Trading Company. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical edibles have come a long way since the infamous pot brownies that were consumed with crunchy, awful-tasting leaves and stems. Aunt Sandy’s Medical Marijuana Cookbook is a collection of recipes by cooking instructor, Sandy Moriarty, who is a professor at Oaksterdam University in Oakland Ca. Oaksterdam University has pioneered training for jobs in the booming marijuana industry. The cookbook is retro in design and content, reminiscent of classic Betty Crocker-type comfort foods. Some of Sandy’s favorites include mac and cheese, spicy buffalo wings, and scalloped potatoes. The book visually demonstrates and reveals the process for creating Sandy’s 10x Cannabutter. It includes 40 easy-to-prepare, delicious dishes from her signature dessert, Blue Sky Lemon Bars, to the Dizzy Bird Turkey with Stuffing for a festive holiday dinner. The book updates some of the classics with low-calorie, vegetarian, vegan, sugar-free and gluten-free options. Each individual’s potency level is different. The author teaches how potency can be adjusted by the amount of plant material used in the butter, oil or tincture. The American Medical Association has now recognized the medical value of marijuana and the federal government has provided medical marijuana to selected medical patients for many years.
Download or read book Plays One written by Wallace Shawn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is a quality in Shawn's writing - imaginative verve, quiet intensity, a sort of puritan sensitivity or a blend of them all.' The Times This first collection of Wallace Shawn's work contains plays from the seventies and eighties, including Aunt Dan and Lemon, described by Frank Rich in the New York Times as 'the most stimulating, not to mention demanding, American play to emerge this year'. Aunt Dan and Lemon 'A mordant comedy for those who really listen in the theatre... A playwright of astonishing originality and veracity.' New York Times Marie and Bruce 'A play that sees, hears, smells and tells more about the way we really live now than any American play in years... Wallace Shawn is a true original, one of the most deeply seeing, sharply writing playwrights we have.' Newsweek The Fever 'A profoundly engaging and provocative journey through the awakening of a pampered man's conscience.' Newsday A Thought in Three Parts 'Wallace Shawn's highly acclaimed play is a trio of playlets exploring the theme of sexual isolation, each in a very different dramatic style which still retains the author's quite distinctive ability to combine colloquialisms with highly poetic writing in a quirky, sinister way... nasty, hilarious and quite riveting for all the right reasons.' Time Out
Download or read book Marie and Bruce written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As the play begins Marie and Bruce, a young married couple, are still in bed, he sleeping soundly, she excoriating him and vowing that she will put an end to their marriage. It seems that she had thrown away his ancient typewriter, which
Download or read book Gratitude and Trust written by Paul Williams and published by Blue Rider Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A self-help book detailing how non-addicts can use the classic 12-step recovery process to enrich their lives"--
Download or read book The Ripper Code written by Thomas Toughill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Jack the Ripper an artist called Frank Miles? Toughill suggests that this former 'friend' of Oscar Wilde was indeed the killer, and that Wilde dropped hints about this in several of his works, most notably The Picture of Dorian Gray, which Wilde wrote in 1889, the year after the Ripper murders took place. In fascinating detail, the author argues that Wilde's story, that of a privileged man whose life of vice in the East End of London turns him into a murderer, is in fact a coded message about the Ripper's identity. However, The Ripper Code is not just a fascinating voyage through the writings of Oscar Wilde and others. It is also a striking example of original detective work. Here, as in his previous books, Toughill unveils stunning evidence from a hitherto untapped source and uses it to devastating effect in arguing his case. The result is a book which is as original as it is enthralling.
