Download or read book The Theater of Lee Blessing written by Philip Zwerling and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for Pulitzer, Tony and Obie awards, among others, Lee Blessing has shaped American theater over the last 40 years. Tackling subjects like child abuse, racism, sexism and war, as well as baseball, love and religion, Blessing has dedicated himself to investigating and dramatizing both the triumphs and evils of contemporary society. This book examines for the first time all 44 of his plays, and includes one of his unpublished scripts, providing a definitive text on a playwright whose thought-provoking work has been performed around the world.
Download or read book Independence written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1985 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The setting is the small town of Independence, Iowa, the lifelong home of Evelyn Briggs. Her oldest daughter, Kess, is a university professor in Minneapolis, but she has come home at the request of her sister, Jo who is concerned for Eve
Download or read book Down the Road written by Lee Blessing 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: DOWN THE ROAD centers on a convicted serial killer and the husband and wife writing team hired to help him write an account of his crimes. The killer, Bill Reach, has admitted to the murders of nineteen women, but there may have been mor
Download or read book Great Falls written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caan should keep writing. He's got the gift. --Variety. Caan is developing a clever signature style, earmarked by bursts of ameliorating humor that are both welcome and disarming. --LA Times. The dialogue is fast paced, leading up to notions one would
Download or read book A Walk in the Woods written by Lee Blessing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the midst of the Cold War, Lee Blessing’s powerful and startling play dramatises a stand-off between U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators as they battle for supremacy. Full of tension and humour A Walk in the Woods shows how the relationship between the two experts evolves as they stroll in the woods above Geneva, away from the glare of the negotiating table. But will this escape lead to a true breakthrough or just more posturing? In this revised version of the play, originally performed at Northern Stage, Vermont, and directed by Nicholas Kent, a woman plays the role of the U.S. negotiator. Opened at The Tricycle Theatre 12th October- 12th November 2011.
Download or read book Fortinbras written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Young Fortinbras, a modern man of action, enters during the last scene of Hamlet only
Download or read book A Body of Water written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Moss and Avis, an attractive, middle-aged couple, wake up one morning in an isolated summer house high above a picturesque body of water. The weather's fine; the view's magnificent. There's only one problem--neither of them can remember w
Download or read book For the Loyal written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Toby and Mia are graduate students with a bright future ahead of them: a baby on the way and a college coaching job for Toby. But when Toby stumbles across a secret that threatens to derail their future, he and Mia must decide between honesty and loyalty, and whether doing something wrong is the only way to do what’s right. Inspired by the Penn State sexual abuse scandal, FOR THE LOYAL is an emotional and thought-provoking night of theater.
Download or read book The Theater of Lee Blessing written by Philip Zwerling and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for Pulitzer, Tony and Obie awards, among others, Lee Blessing has shaped American theater over the last 40 years. Tackling subjects like child abuse, racism, sexism and war, as well as baseball, love and religion, Blessing has dedicated himself to investigating and dramatizing both the triumphs and evils of contemporary society. This book examines for the first time all 44 of his plays, and includes one of his unpublished scripts, providing a definitive text on a playwright whose thought-provoking work has been performed around the world.
Download or read book Two Rooms written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The two rooms of the title are a windowless cubicle in Beirut where an American hostage is being held by Arab terrorists and a room in his home in the United States, which his wife has stripped of furniture so that, at least symbolically, she c
Download or read book Patient A written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Commissioned by the Bergalis family to explore Kimberly's case of contracting the AIDS virus, the playwright becomes part of the story as an essential observer to the story. Kim's encounters with Lee reflect their relationship in real life as w
Download or read book Eleemosynary written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Staged with utmost simplicity, using platforms and a few props, the play probes into the delicate relationship of three singular women: the grandmother, Dorothea, who has sought to assert her independence through strong-willed eccentricity; her
Download or read book Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music written by Lee Blessing 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: Eve Wilfong, who lives over the Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music Bar, is paid a visit by her niece Catherine Empanger, a novice nun who's been asked to leave her convent. It seems Catherine suffers from a curious compulsion to
Download or read book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the “Notable Books of 1967” by the American Library Association.
Download or read book Chesapeake written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When conservative candidate Therm Pooley's criticism of Kerr's government-sponsored performance art lands him a Senate seat, Kerr seeks revenge. The centerpiece of Pooley's political career is his labrador retriever, Lucky, whose tricks
Download or read book Lee Blessing written by Dana R. Bourke and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lonesome Hollow written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In this dystopic view of the near-future, sexual offenders have been removed from the traditional penal system and placed in a series of gulag-like camps created out of dying, rural towns all over America. Laws have changed, and now of
