Download or read book Three Short Plays written by Christopher Durang and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Short Plays by Christopher Durang written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1979 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE UNIVERSE. Centers on a week in the beleaguered life of Eleanor Mann, housewife and mother, who lives with her religious fanatic husband and three sons; the oldest a pimp and dope pusher; the middle son a flagrant
Download or read book The Ceremony of Innocence written by Ronald Ribman and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1968 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As Michael Smith describes ... Ribman has plunged into history and written a play about eleventh-century England and its pacifist King Ethelred. Ethelred has negotiated a treaty with Sweyn of Denmark whereby England pays tribute in silver
Download or read book The Nature and Purpose of the Universe Death Comes to Us All Mary Agnes Dentity Crisis written by Christopher Durang and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The Nature and Purpose of the Universe] centers on a week in the beleaguered life of Eleanor Mann, housewife and mother, who lives with her religious fanatic husband and three sons; the oldest a pimp and dope pusher; the middle son a flagrant homosexual; and the youngest the victim of a threshing machine accident which has deprived him of his manhood. The family becomes embroiled in a plot to assassinate the Pope, who is coming to New Jersey to bless the air, and with the help of a radical black nun succeeds in its purpose—with unexpectedly hilarious results. [In Death Comes to Us All, Mary Agnes] the scene is a decaying mansion occupied by a family beset by all manner of problems: conceit, hatred, selfishness, incest and cruelty—all dealt with in an ironic, highly theatrical manner which offers rare acting opportunities for the performers involved. Throughout, and despite the horrors encountered, all exude a kind of bland innocence which, oddly enough, seems to excuse their otherwise inexcusable behavior—and underscores the biting irony of what takes place. [In 'Dentity Crisis] recovering from a nervous breakdown, Jane is nursed and nagged by her relentlessly cheerful mother, and confused by her oversexed brother—who keeps changing into her father, her grandfather and her mother’s French lover. Eventually all (including Jane’s psychiatrist, who undergoes a sex change operation and swaps places with his wife) change characters again and become Jane herself—leaving her with no identity at all and pointing up the near impossibility of self-identification in our uncertain times." -- Publisher's website.
Download or read book The Last of Mrs Lincoln written by James Prideaux and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1973 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Impulsive, imperious and foolish in money matters, Mary Todd Lincoln was beset by a series of unhappy events in the years following her husband's tragic assassination. Disturbed by still persistent rumors that she, as a Southerner, had h
Download or read book A Fable written by Jean Claude Van Itallie and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1976-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action begins, once upon a time, in the village of People Who Fish in the Lake, where everyone longs nostalgically for the Golden Time, when happiness and harmony reigned supreme. In quest of what has been lost, the haughty king send
Download or read book The Body and the Wheel written by William Gibson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1975-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for production in a church, theatre or auditorium, this beautiful and moving work by one of our theatre's most important and successful playwrights illuminates the story of Jesus with dramatic force and true reverence. The dialogue is drawn from
Download or read book Contemporary Dramatists written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operation Midnight Climax written by Neal Bell 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 scene is a small control room, where three CIA agents are closeted behind a two-way mirror, taping the offstage actions of a fourth agent, a young woman who is having a prearranged passionate liaison with a suspected drug pusher. Ost
Download or read book Tantalus written by Ian Cullen and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Anton Korff, aide to a mysterious ailing recluse, who is reputed to be one of the world's richest men, interviews a young woman who has applied for a position as nurse for the aging multi-millionaire. Korff's questioning centers on wheth
Download or read book Contemporary American Dramatists written by Kathryn Ann Berney and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work profiles nearly 200 U.S. playwrights, both living and deceased, and is part of St. James Press' Contemporary Literature Series. "Contemporary American Dramatists" provides invaluable critical, biographical and bibliographical information on nearly 200 of the most important American dramatists since the end of World War II.
Download or read book Invitation to a March written by Arthur Laurents and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1961 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: George Oppenheimer's brief summation: It skirts about the fairy story of Sleeping Beauty , but never settles for long in one mold. There is social comment on conformity and other failings of our modern civilization; there is satir
Download or read book 27 Short Plays written by Christopher Durang and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1995 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kiss and Tell written by Frederick Hugh Herbert and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1945 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Corliss Archer, going on sixteen, is a trial to her family and at the same time a pure delight. She can't stand not being grown up, and when Private Earhart is entertained by the Archers, Corliss plays the young lady and almost precipita
Download or read book The Theatre of Christopher Durang written by Miriam Chirico and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theatre of Christopher Durang considers the works of one of the foremost comedic writers for the American stage. From Durang's early success with the controversial Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (1974) to his recent Tony Award-winning play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2012), he has been an original theatrical voice in American theatre. Edith Oliver, long-time theatre critic for The New Yorker, described Durang as “one of the funniest men in the world.” Durang challenges traditional dramatic idioms with his irreverent comedies that are as shocking as they are prescient and compassionate. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of Durang's works and incorporates comedic theory to examine how laughter in performance subverts social conventions and hierarchies. Through a clear, detailed discussion of the plays, Miriam Chirico considers Durang's use of black comedy, satire, and parody to explode such topics as: western literature, religion, dysfunctional families, and American social malaise. Robert Combs and Jay Malarcher provide additional critical perspectives about Durang's works, detailing his use of alienation techniques and locating his place within the American parodic tradition. The book also includes a warm introduction by Durang's former student, Pulitzer Prize-winner, David Lindsay-Abaire. The Theatre of Christopher Durang, in demonstrating how Durang has shaped contemporary theatrical possibilities, offers a valuable guide for students of American drama and comedy.
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Download or read book Dumping Ground written by Elizabeth Diggs and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
