Download or read book Classics on Stage A Collection of Plays Based on Children s Classic Stories written by Julie Meighan and published by Jembooks. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classics on Stage is a collection of ten plays adapted from popular and cherished works of children's literature. This is a unique collection of scripts that will entertain and educate readers. The plays are written with a sense of fun, which will engage and delight children of all ages. The plays in the collection are: The Wizard of Oz Alice in Wonderland How the Leopard Got His Spots How the Elephant Got His Trunk The Happy Prince The Selfish Giant The Canterville Ghost Peter Pan Pinocchio Around the World in Eighty Days

Download or read book Aesop s Fables on Stage written by Julie Meighan and published by Julie Meighan. This book was released on 2023-01-02 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter Aesop's imaginative and wacky world of Brave MICE SLY FOXES and Proud PEACOCKS. Follow the adventures of the grateful LION who repays a debt, a slow andsteady TORTOISE who wins the race and a very lazy GRASSHOPPER whofinally gets his comeuppance. Aesop's Fables On Stage is a collection of delightful, fantastic fables that have been adapted into children's plays. The scripts can be used as performance plays, readers' theatre or just read for pure enjoyment.

Download or read book The Philosophical Stage written by Joshua Billings and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinking The Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history. Drawing on evidence from tragedy and comedy, Joshua Billings shines new light on the development of early Greek philosophy, arguing that drama is our best source for understanding the intellectual culture of classical Athens. In this incisive book, Billings recasts classical Greek intellectual history as a conversation across discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely shared theoretical questions. He argues that neither "literature" nor "philosophy" was a defined category in the fifth century BCE, and develops a method of reading dramatic form as a structured investigation of issues at the heart of the emerging discipline of philosophy. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's most original classical scholars, The Philosophical Stage presents a novel approach to ancient drama and sets a path for a renewed understanding of early Greek thought.

Download or read book Traditional Japanese Theater written by Karen Brazell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind: a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume.

Download or read book Assassins written by Stephen Sondheim and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evokes a fraternity of Presidential assassins across a hundred years of history. Examines success, failure, and the questionable drive for power and celebrity in American society. | Original cast recording; booklet includes lyrics.

Download or read book The Classical Theatre of China written by A.C. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1957. Besides tracing the history and development of the Peking Theatre, this volume explains acting techniques, stage costume and symbolism, musical forms and the various types of plays.

Download or read book Page to Stage written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Classics in the American Theater of the 1960s and Early 1970s written by Marianthe Colakis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces modern versions and adaptations of Greek tragedies in the recent past. The author provides a survey of the most significant and characteristic drama and shows how classically-based dramas reflected the chaotic decade in which they had been written, both through their form and the artist's vision they depicted. After the culture of the 1950s had embraced Freudian language and comfort so readily, the departure from this norm in the 1960s left the ancient heroes and heroines free to be "themselves" again. This decade was more hospitable to a dark view of life as the playwright moved away from the fate of the individual towards the fate of humankind as a whole. The widespread mistrust of technology as a solution to problems led to a romantic vision of primitive life and the recreation of the power in Greek tragedy by re-introducing its supposed ritual origins. Plays discussed include: The Prodigal by Jack Richardson, Prometheus Bound by Robert Lowell, Heracles by Archibald MacLeish, Dionysus in '69 by The Performance Group, Antigone by The Living Theatre, and The Orphan by David Rabe.

Download or read book Short Plays of Theatre Classics written by Aurand Harris and published by Anchorage Press (UK). This book was released on 1991 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urinetown written by Greg Kotis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Download or read book Another Day s Begun written by Howard Sherman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple form. This unique and timely book shines a light on the play's continued impact in the 21st century and makes a case for the healing powers of Wilder's text to a world confronting multiple crises. Through extensive interviews with more than 100 artists about their own experience of the play and its impact on them professionally and personally – and including background on the play's early years and its pervasiveness in American culture – Another Day's Begun shows why this particular work remains so important, essential, and beloved. Every production of Our Town has a story to tell beyond Wilder's own. One year after the tragedy of 9/11, Paul Newman, in his final stage appearance, played the Stage Manager in Our Town on Broadway. Director David Cromer's 2008 Chicago interpretation would play in five more cities, ultimately becoming New York's longest-running Our Town ever. In 2013, incarcerated men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility brought Grover's Corners inside a maximum security prison. After the 2017 arena bombing in Manchester UK, the Royal Exchange Theatre chose Our Town as its offering to the stricken community. 80 years after it was written, more than 110 years after its actions take place, Our Town continues to assert itself as an essential play about how we must embrace and appreciate the value of life itself. Another Day's Begun explains how this American classic has the power to inspire, heal and endure in the modern day, onstage and beyond.

Download or read book Machinal written by Sophie Treadwell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographic data.

Download or read book Stage Plays from the Classics written by Joellen Bland and published by Plays. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-act stage adaptations of famous short stories, novels, and plays. Includes "The Prince and the Pauper, " "Nicholas Nickleby, " and "Frankenstein."

Download or read book Classics of the Modern Theater Realism and After written by Alvin B. Kernan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1965 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven modern plays selected in the anthology are from that group which fully exploit and enlarge the image of the human condition built into our places of dramatic performance. Also, this selection has been made to illustrate various experiments with style made by modern dramatists - the bulk of the book being given to realism. There are also examples of the major departures from realism, the most important single tendency inmodern drama, such as: poetic drama, epic theater, expressionism, and theater of the absurd.

Download or read book Stages of Drama written by Carl H. Klaus and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays -- "Stages of Drama" truly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the stage.

Download or read book A Man of No Importance written by Terrence McNally and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Classic Theatre written by Eric Bentley and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The classical view, said Gilbert Murray, is "the view of a man whose training and tastes lead him to regard literature as one, and the great Greek and Roman writers as central forces in it." Now, though justice may have been done to Greek and Roman drama itself, many of us have only the haziest notion how the tradition continued. In performance it is possible that there was an unbroken tradition from ancient days to the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century. The commedia in turn laid the basis for modern comedy. Yet the dramas enacted by the Italian comedians remain unknown because they survived only in unreadable scenarios. For the present volume Leon Katz has made a conjectural reconstruction of the complete dialogue of one such scenario. While the players maintained the classical tradition before a popular audience, the writers revived Roman comedy for a courtly audience. Machiavelli's Mandrake is the crowning achievement of the revival. There was no Chinese wall between the popular and courtly traditions. Such a writer as Beolco belongs to both, and later the mingling of elements will be a matter of controversy. The greatest of the feuds was between Goldoni and Gozzi in the eighteenth century. The paradox is that, in retrospect, Gozzi, who championed the commedia, seems the more "literary" and "academic," while Goldoni, the supposed reformer, if not abolisher, of the commedia, can plausibly be presented by modern scholars as its restorer... The question: What is Theatre? arises at this point, and the best purpose this collection can serve is to make the reader ask such elemental questions. As in the engravings of Callot, we find in these texts the essence of dramatic art." --