Download or read book Resolving Hedda written by Jon Klein and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Henrik Ibsen: Ahead of his time. Father of modern drama. Often considered an early male feminist for confronting the constraints on women in the 19th century. The title character of one of his plays has a bone to pick with him, though. Hedda Gabler has had enough of being strong and uncompromising yet given just one means of independence at the end of her story: by killing herself. So she's been bursting...to try to wrest control of HEDDA GABLER and chart a new course. She's winning audience after audience to her side in Jon Klein's boisterous new comedy RESOLVING HEDDA... One of the pricklier characters in the dramatic canon, Hedda--introduced to the world in 1891--has never had a problem speaking her mind, and that quality is only intensified here. She glares at the heavens, heaping scorn on the Norwegian master as she tries to think of ways to circumvent his precision-crafted plot, which piles indignities on her while blocking avenues of escape -- `the perfect killing machine', as she bitterly describes it. Ibsen gives her plenty of qualities to help her along: fierce intelligence, bravery and tenacity. Other traits must be fought. `I'm bored and willful and perverse', she says ruefully, `at least according to Wikipedia'. Yes, Wikipedia. For all of her Victorian trappings, Hedda is very much a woman of 2017. She's been keeping current these last 126 years and drops offhand references to Oprah's Book Club and phone apps, as well as uttering the occasional curse word. The other characters don't know what to make of her as she restlessly paces her elegant drawing room. Her ineffectual academician of a husband, George, is flustered even more than usual; still, he and the others keep following the paths that lead toward her usual fate while she tries to steer them elsewhere, all while she battles props--pistols, a sole-copy manuscript--that keep playing into the action exactly as Ibsen wrote them. The comic tone spreads to the others, however... Klein, the author of such previous Victory hits as T BONE N WEASEL and WISHING WELL, delivers laughs at a steady pace... Pure entertainment is its own reward, though, and RESOLVING HEDDA, by its very existence, makes a larger statement. However much Hedda might abuse him, Ibsen deserves her--and our--admiration for writing so forcefully about issues that perpetually bedevil us... It's good to have him still at our side." Daryl H Miller, Los Angeles Times "Henrik and Hedda, a hilarious pair... Its author is the brilliantly clever and witty Jon Klein...Klein's hilarious script." Cynthia Citron, Santa Monica Daily Press

Download or read book AQA A Level Drama Play Guide Hedda Gabler written by Annie Fox and published by Illuminate Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Play Guide is specifically written for A Level students who are studying Hedda Gabler as part of the AQA A Level Drama & Theatre specification. It provides structured support for Component 1: Section A - Drama and theatre. / This book is divided into three sections: How to explore a text for A level Drama and Theatre, with vocabulary-building sections on acting, directing and design; An extended exploration of the play to enrich students' understanding and response to the text; Targeted examination preparation to improve writing and test-taking skills. / Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of key A Level drama & theatre skills. / Knowledge and understanding of the play are developed with a synopsis, character and scene studies, contextual and practical exploration. / Includes a wide range of practical drama tasks, activities, and research and revision exercises. / Advice on how to interpret and prepare for exam questions with examples of effective responses.

Download or read book Rooms in Dramatic Realism written by Fred Miller Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic Realism, since its birth in the hectic late years of the nineteenth century, gave theatrical and thematic energy to the interaction between a play’s text and the way that it looked on the stage. Characters began to find themselves in rooms and settings that played an active and changing role in the drama, and their dialogue and reactions evolved in time with these changes. As life itself became more elaborate during the 20th Century, so these rooms were invaded and then defined by the outside world. Fred Miller Robinson’s enjoyable and stimulating essays on this enduring genre tackle the dreams and anxieties of the middles classes of the Industrial Revolution – dreams of domestic comfort and refuge, and anxieties about how entrapping that comfort could be. Moving from Ibsen to Chekhov and onwards into later plays in which the reality of ‘Realism’ comes under scrutiny, this is a book to dip into before a performance or to study during a class.

Download or read book Capturing Good Stress on the Leadership Battlefield written by Steven C. German, PhD and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to remain fresh, focused, creative, productive, and healthy in the face of enormous stress is an important challenge facing leaders within the modern organization, regardless of the organization or the level of leadership. Providing a way to successfully address this challenge is the primary goal of this book. The book recognizes that stress can actually be a positive force for enhancing performance if it is managed effectively, offering an optimistic message for leaders facing ongoing pressures in their work. What Dr. German does in his book is to offer knowledge and practical strategies, based on solid research, to help leaders better manage the distress, or negative stress, inherent in their role. In addition, the book provides tools to develop a personal resiliency enhancement plan to allow leaders better access to the wave of positive energy that comes from experiencing good stress, also called eustress. The information offered in the book is creatively presented as part of a training program involving leaders, making the material an intriguing read as well as an invitation to be part of the learning process shared by others serving in the leadership role.

Download or read book Hedda Gabler written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic story of a woman who retained her maiden name while married to a boring pedant and who took perverse delight in subjegating that sex which took her sex for granted. She plays her husband for a fool, and she systematically destroys first the manuscript and then the life of the male friend who idolizes her, before she exercises her own right to coup de grace.

Download or read book Hedda Gabler written by and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1974 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: playbook

Download or read book Salome s Modernity written by Petra Dierkes-Thrun and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.

Download or read book Hedda Gabler written by Henrik Ibsen and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedda Gabler is bored with everything, even her marriage. Resigning herself to a life of domesticity, she becomes nervous when her husband reveals they are tight on money. Hedda begins manipulating the lives of others, leading to multiple tragedies.

Download or read book Hedda Gabler written by Henrik Ibsen and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Without Lying Down written by Cari Beauchamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter—male or female—or almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ."

Download or read book Hedda Gabler written by Charles R. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Ibsen's 1890 play, "Hedda Gabler", with critical commentary and an analysis of the text. It dramatizes the experiences of the title character, Hedda, the daughter of a general, who is trapped in a marriage and a house that she does not want.

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler written by Jeff Whitty and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Beginning immediately after Henrik Ibsen's classic ends, THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF HEDDA GABLER finds Hedda mired in an alternative hell: a place where death is only possible when a fictional character is forgotten by the real-life publi

Download or read book Hedda Gabler written by Jon Robin Baitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Ibsen's most beguiling antiheroine is given a new twist in Jon Robin Baitz's acclaimed adaptation of HEDDA GABLER: She's no longer the chilly, inscrutable manipulator but a woman with, as the New York Times put it, a context and

Download or read book Ingrid Bergman written by David Smit and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smit studies the woman behind the public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly person, an image carefully crafted by Bergman's first producer David O. Selznick. Bergman hid behind that image to live her life on her own terms. That life included three difficult marriages, numerous lovers, and a major scandal that stained her reputation but which she survived by creating her own legend. Bergman was filled with contradictions: she was dependent upon men and chafed under their control; she loved her children but constantly left them to perform; she longed for romance but walked away from her affairs without looking back; she desired to make great films but settled for being an entertainer; she hated the scrutiny of the media but learned to charm reporters. The author also assesses Bergman's artistry--her star qualities and her acting skills. She did her best work in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy, and Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata. Her life and image were the inspiration for these films in the first place.

Download or read book Home at Last written by Anita Higman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Lamington's never had a home or family When her late employer leaves Bromfeld Manor to her, Olivia feels secure for the first time in her life. Then Bromfeld's prodigal son returns, challenging her claim to the estate—and everything Olivia understands about family…and love. The woman his father left his fortune to is as beautiful as she is innocent, which is why Noah Bromfeld offers to let Olivia stay while he settles his father's affairs. The closer he gets to Olivia, though, the more Noah wonders if this sweet beauty is the key to his future. But will his dark past destroy his only hope for happiness?

Download or read book A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre written by Christopher Innes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers to exemplify the movement, and six plays in particular: * Henrik Ibsen - A Dolls House and Hedda Gabler * Anton Chekhov - The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard * George Bernard Shaw - Mrs Warren's Profession and Heartbreak House. Innes' introduction provides an overview of naturalist theatre. Key themes include: the representation of women, significant contemporary issues and the links between theory, play writing and stage practice. The primary sources explore many aspects of naturalism, giving information on: * the playwrights' intentions when writing plays * contemporary reviews * literary criticism * political and social background * production notes from early performances of the plays.

Download or read book Ibsen s Women written by Joan Templeton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First study of the women in Ibsen's plays and in the life of the playwright.