Download or read book Seven One act Plays written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: In BETTE AND ME, the author and the legendary Bette Midler get their hair done, try on makeup, and row a boat on the Hudson River. They finally end up at Radio City Music Hall, where Wendy rises from the orchestra pit on a half-shell w
Download or read book The Apartment Complex Seven One Act Plays written by William Inge and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: MARGARET’S BED. Elsie picks up Ben at the symphony and brings him back to the apartment she shares with Margaret, who is away for the night. Ben assumes that this is a prelude to sex, but truly Elsie is just desperate for Ben to sleep in Margaret’s empty bed, because she has a pathological fear of sleeping in an empty apartment. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE KILLING. Mac meets Huey at a bar and brings him home to his apartment to share a bottle of whiskey, but this isn’t the kind of pick-up you might think. Mac, who is a religious man and fears damnation, hopes to convince Huey, who does not believe, to kill him. (2 men.) THE POWER OF SILENCE. Teachers at the same school, Emma and Louise have been receiving mysterious phone calls, and when Emma answers, no one speaks. Louise is less disturbed by the calls, but they make Emma frantic, and she is sure that one of her students is responsible. After several silent calls, someone rings their door buzzer repeatedly. But who’s there? (2 men, 2 women.) PRODIGAL. Terry is a troubled teen who’s been arrested multiple times and is on probation. In fact, if his mother won’t let him stay with her, Terry has to turn himself in and go back to “the farm.” Nancy has a chance at a new life with a new husband, though, and she can’t handle her son anymore. But her decision has dire consequences for others. (1 man, 2 women.) THE CALL. Joe has traveled to New York City from Billings, Montana for a Shriners-like convention and parade, but he is weighed down by his sense of failure and fear of a changing world. He can’t even bring himself to stay with his successful actress sister and her husband in their tony apartment, preferring to drag his heavy suitcase to find a hotel room on a low floor. (2 men.) THE LOVE DEATH. Byron is a successful writer, living alone in a well-decorated apartment, who makes a series of calls to his mother, friends, and the critic who gave his last book of short stories a terrible review to let them know that he is about to commit suicide. (1 man, voices.) MOVED-IN. The super of the apartment complex, Mr. Flicker, is leaving, and the board has offered his job to Carlton. But Carlton, an African American who struggled to get admitted to the complex in the first place, isn’t sure he wants to take the job and give up the hate he feels for many of his fellow tenants. (2 men, 1 woman.)
Download or read book Seven One Act Plays by Holberg written by Ludvig Holberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short plays by the great Danish-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg reveal, in brilliant and sparking miniature, his genius for comedy. The plays are here translated into English for the first time, with an introduction by Svend Kragh-Jacobsen, well-known Danish theater critic. In these social comedies Holberg pricks the vanity of snobbery and the worship of riches, deals with the world of the philosophers, and has fun with the theme of common sense. A talkative barber, a scientific charlatan, and an ignorant farmer boy come in for sharp characterization. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Lives of the Saints written by David Ives and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: ENIGMA VARIATIONS. Zany hijinks as a pair of lookalikes named Bebe W.W. Doppel-gängler solve an identity crisis with the help of Dr. William W. Williams and his nurse Fifi, who may or may not be Aphrodite the Goddess of Love. Or is she
Download or read book Seven One act Plays written by Lydia Havers and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One act Comedies of Moli re written by Molière and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the best of Moliere's masterful one-acts, blending broad farce and pointed wit to express his never-ending delight in human foibles. But Moliere is more than just the "master of the laugh," for behind the comic gestures of these matchless rogues, tight-fisted masters, possessive lovers and elegant ladies lurk fears, insecurities and their consequences. Includes: The Jealous Husband, The Flying Doctor, Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed, The Imaginary Cuckold, The Rehearsal at Versailles, The Forced Marriage, The Seductive Mistress.
Download or read book 7 Short Farces written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: SWAN SONG. An actor wakes up with a hangover, locked in the theater after the evening's performance. He is terrified when he thinks a ghost appears, but it is only the theater's prompter. The actor tells him stories of his life and als
Download or read book The Magic Tower and Other One act Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Download or read book Twelve Classic One Act Plays written by Mary Carolyn Waldrep and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of royalty-free plays contains classics by well-known playwrights: Glaspell's Trifles, Synge's Riders to the Sea, Strindberg's The Stronger, plus works by Aristophanes, Chekhov, Yeats, Barrie, and others.
Download or read book Mister Paradise and Other One act Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.
Download or read book Fifth Planet and Other Plays written by David Auburn and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: FIFTH PLANET. Charts the friendship between two observatory workers as it waxes and wanes over the course of a year. (1 man, 1 woman.) ARE YOU READY. The fates of three people drawn to the same restaurant are altered in an instant. (2
Download or read book Seven Plays of the Sea written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1972 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The action of the seven one-act plays takes place in the years preceding World War I
Download or read book Fifteen One Act Plays written by Sam Shepard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s Head
Download or read book Who Am I this Time written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2014 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this play—as we are told at the outset—is love, pure and complicated. Set on the stage of The North Crawford Mask & Wig Club ("the finest community theatre in central Connecticut!"), three early comic masterpieces by Kurt Vonnegut (Long Walk to Forever, Who am I This Time? and Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son) are sewn together into a seamless evening of hilarity and humanity. With a single set, wonderful roles for seven versatile actors, and Vonnegut's singular wit and insight into human foibles, this is a smart, delightful comedy for the whole family.
Download or read book Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs written by Michelle Carter and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs, the intention of the first act is to explore our impulse to "explain" why horrific acts are committed. A character called Wild Nature--sprung from a passage in the Unabomber manifesto--leads a group of actors in the performance of six "explanations" for Ted Kaczynski's behavior: his childhood; the Murray experiment at Harvard; his two years at Berkeley; mental illness; unrequited love; and Wild Nature--some brand of ungovernable psychosexual rage. Wild Nature and the acting troupe take their bows and exit. Act II opens exactly as Act I opened: Wild Nature begins to perform the identical show until s/he realizes the same audience has returned. Since they can't trot out the "explanations" again, they abandon this and decide to just tell the story, letting the questions live. In awarding the 2003 PEN USA Literary Award for drama, the judges wrote: "Carter has constructed a kaleidoscopic postmodern exploration of the real-life events and influences that unleashed the Unabomber. Her comprehensive research and keen eye for insightful details result in vivid, gripping portraits of the alienated terrorist and those who knew him. By skillfully blending thoughtful analysis with humor, sympathy and occasional quirky song, Carter lulls us into thinking that the distrubed mind of a homegrown terrorist is explainable, perhaps even forgivable--before lowering the emotional boom as the focus shifts from the eccentricities of the bomber to the horror inflicted on his victims ... Carter's cautionary drama uncovers deeper truths that endure long past the limited shelf life of a media event."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book After the Beep written by Seth Kramer and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennessee written by Romulus Linney and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Set in the mountains of North Carolina in 1870, the play deals with a frontier family; father, mother and son, who work long hours to wrest a living from the small farm they have bought from the county. Unexpectedly an old woman appears, perhaps deranged, and carrying a cowbell and a broken bit of mirror. They offer her food and drink, and she talks of her youth-which was apparently spent on the very farm which is now theirs. Years before, to ward off suitors, the woman had declared that she would only marry a man who could take her to Tennessee, but one man accepted her dare, selling off good bottom land to do so. Now in her later years, she realizes that the new farm which they carved from the wilderness was not in Tennessee at all, but only seven miles distant over the hills. Mingling scenes from past and present, the play is rich both in atmosphere and real emotion as it unfolds its tale of lives lived sometimes perilously but always to the full-and with the indomitable spirit which characterized those who laid the foundations of a great nation.
