Download or read book The Stonewater Rapture written by Doug Wright and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cast size: small.

Download or read book The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie written by Albert Innaurato and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1977-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Benno Blimpie is an enormously fat and desperately unhappy young man who is literally eating himself to death. Rejected by his coarse family, and a world which holds him in contempt, Benno watches bitterly as the history of his life is played out in scene after scene around him. His foul-mouthed, unloving mother; his gross, derisive father; his sex-obsessed grandfather, who courts disaster with a teenaged nymphet-all subject him to derision and scorn. Trapped beneath Benno's gross exterior there is a sensitive and feeling person, with needs that cry out for fulfillment. But he learns that a love of beauty is not enough and, trapped within his ugliness, he can only shut himself away and methodically eat himself into oblivion.

Download or read book Stage Directions and Spared written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1977 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: STAGE DIRECTIONS. A man and two women (brother and sister?) meet after attending a funeral (their father's?), a time when so much needs to be articulated and understood. And yet, somehow, they cannot bridge the gulf of self-consciousne

Download or read book Watbanaland written by Doug Wright and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Flo Stillman is a nursery school teacher, desperate to have children of her own. Her husband, Park, a bond trader on Wall Street, refuses to comply. Park carries an overwhelming secret: An affair he had with his secretary, a spirited young woma

Download or read book A Betrothal written by Lanford Wilson and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1986 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The setting is a large tent, where two flower show exhibitors have sought refuge from a sudden rainfall. She (Ms. Joslyn) is visibly annoyed at the curt treatment that the judges have given her Little Soldier and makes no bones about it. He (Mr. Wasserman) is equally dismayed by the fate of his Little Tanya, but is too soft-spoken and retiring to vent his anger. They both agree that if the judges are getting soaked it serves them right, but Mr. Wasserman's attempts at friendly conversation are confounded by Ms. Joslyn's close-mouthed surliness. But gradually it develops that (a) they happen to admire each other's creations (unlike the judges) and (b) they are near neighbors-all of which leads in time to the realization that if it proved possible to combine the color of his Little Tanya with the texture of her Little Soldier a new strain of flower would result which even the most obtuse of judges would be dazzled by. Quivering with anticipation they prepare to leave, as the sun comes out, and the prospect of future glory sends them resolutely back to their test beds and potting sheds.

Download or read book The Actor as Storyteller written by Bruce Miller and published by Limelight Editions. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). The Actor as Storyteller is intended for serious beginning actors. It opens with an overview, explaining the differences between theater and its hybrid mediums, the part an actor plays in each of those mediums. It moves on to the acting craft itself, with a special emphasis on analysis and choice-making, introducing the concept of the actor as storyteller, then presents the specific tools an actor works with. Next, it details the process an actor can use to prepare for scene work and rehearsals, complete with a working plan for using the tools discussed. The book concludes with a discussion of mental preparation, suggestions for auditioning, a process for rehearsing a play, and an overview of the realities of show business. Included in this updated edition are: A detailed examination of script analysis of the overall play and of individual scenes; A sample of an actor's script, filled with useful script notations; Two new short plays, one written especially for this text; Updated references, lists of plays, and recommended further reading

Download or read book Ready for the River written by Neal Bell and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The drama begins on the site of the foreclosed farm of Doris, her estranged husband, Jim, and her daughter, Lorna. As Doris and Lorna reminisce about life before the foreclosure, they witness Jim take a shotgun, stalk and shoot the banke

Download or read book Night Dance written by Reynolds Price and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: NIGHT DANCE, opens in 1945. Genevieve's husband, Wayne, is due home any day now from World War II which has recently ended. Porter, who has made the Navy his life, is already home, enjoying Roma's cooking and catching up on the news. Nea

Download or read book The Roads to Home written by Horton Foote and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: In the first play, A NIGHTINGALE, Mabel and Vonnie, two Houston neighbors and best friends, both refugees from small Texas towns, are forbearing and patient about the protracted and uninvited visits of Annie Long, a girlhood acquaintan

Download or read book The Lady from Havana written by Luis Santeiro and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In Act One, Mama, an elegant older woman from Cuba, arrives at the Miami home of her daughter, Marita, with her former maid, Zoila, in tow as well as a host of misgivings about living in exile in the United States. As the mother and daug

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Drama written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.

Download or read book The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker written by Russell Davis and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Bob and Sam work for the same corporation, but have not seen each other for three years since Sam has been heading the company's new operation in Italy. Sam and his wife, Molly, return for a visit to the United States and invite Bob and

Download or read book Johnny Bull written by Kathleen B. Yale and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1985-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Having married an American serviceman during his wartime stint in England, Iris has looked forward to coming to the United States--to the glittering, glamorous world she has seen depicted in Hollywood movies. But her new husband's home turns out

Download or read book The Deal written by Matthew Witten and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Concerned that he might be transferred to Alaska because of his failure to obtain a conviction in the past three years, Alex, an FBI supervisor temporarily assigned to the Philadelphia office, decides to quicken his pursuit of a local po

Download or read book Subfertile written by Tom Mardirosian and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: There is no room for delicacy or modesty when Tom, on the brink of his fortieth birthday, learns that he and his wife's childless condition is a result of his low sperm count. Determined to have a child, and haunted by the dinosaurs he v

Download or read book The Couch written by Lynne Kaufman and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The play takes place at Carl Jung's home on a lake in Switzerland. It is Sunday afternoon, and Sigmund Freud, joining his protégé for lunch, finds him in conflict with his long-suffering wife, Emma, because of Jung's infatuation with a l

Download or read book Sparks Fly Upward written by Jerome Lawrence and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1967-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Even in her early days as an obscure radio actress, the natively keen-minded Felicia exploits every opportunity to obtain personal recognition. She meets a young army Colonel, who launches her into the stratosphere of society, and who, a