Download or read book Zoe An Act In Two Plays written by Gregory Ferris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told across two plays, this is the story of a young French woman as she adapts to life in the strangest village in America, where the dead are ever present, but the problems of everyday living are even more pressing.
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Download or read book The Romance Of Risk written by Lynn E Ponton and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Lynn Ponton has devoted her clinical practice to a particular community -- teenagers in trouble. Whether these kids are struggling with peers, experimenting with drugs, stealing cars, or having unprotected sex, they have something in common: they are all involved in unhealthy risk-taking. And their parents are scared. "How did my child get involved in this dangerous situation?" they ask. "And what can I do?"Their fears are justified: today's teens have more opportunities for taking dangerous risks than ever before. But in The Romance of Risk, Dr. Ponton refutes the traditional idea that risk-taking is primarily an angry power struggle with parents -- so-called teenage rebellion -- and re-defines it as a potentially positive testing process whereby challenge and risk are the primary tools adolescents use to find out who they are and determine who they will become. This new perspective is revealed in a series of mesmerizing tales about individual adolescents and their families. Among others, we meet Jill, a 13-year-old thrill-seeking runaway; Hannah, a privileged daughter of suburbia who suffers from anorexia; and Joe, a high school senior with a serious drinking problem. Through these stories, we come to understand Dr. Ponton's startling observation that teenagers must confront and experience challenge and risk along the path to self-discovery. For adolescents, the powerful allure of the adult world is equaled only by the fear of failing to find a place in it. Parents can ease that transition into adulthood, however, by promoting healthy risk-taking so that dangerous options will be avoided. In The Romance of Risk, parents will learn how they can begin to understand rather than fear adolescent risk-taking, and how to communicate with their children about it. After all, teenagers will always romanticize risk. But with the support and guidance of parents and other adults, odds are the risks they take will be the right ones.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laughter in the Dark written by Albert E. Kalson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Laughter in the Dark, a comprehensive study of the plays of Alan Ayckbourn, Britain's most prolific contemporary dramatist, Albert E. Kalson demonstrates that a recurring character is a development of the persona of the author himself. The protagonist with a divided personality in Ayckbourn's first play, The Square Cat, a reluctant rock star who longs for a conventional life, splits into opposing characters in his later works. In the recent The Revenger's Comedies, a man sharing his author's offstage diffidence finds himself in the control of a flamboyant woman who is, as Ayckbourn himself has been, both performer and director, as she manipulates her way to the top of a multinational corporation mirroring the Britain of the Thatcher years." "Once considered a mere farceur, Ayckbourn has won critical respect as his plays reflect the breakdown of self, family, and community. The moving portrait of a woman on the brink of insanity in Just Between Ourselves is a development of The Square Cat's dissatisfied housewife, who reemerges as the giddily bewildered wife of a philandering husband in the delightfully frothy Relatively Speaking. Madness is more fully, more darkly etched in Woman in Mind and leads to the more disturbing madness of the world at large in The Revenger's Comedies, even to that of the universe itself in Wildest Dreams. Ayckbourn has explored the encroachment of evil within the social and political contexts of Way Upstream, A Small Family Business, and Man of the Moment, and his nightmare vision of the future in Henceforward...seems uncomfortably close to the contemporary, automated world in which man is replaced by machine." "Kalson explores what he calls the Ayckbourn A-effect. Like Bertolt Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt, Ayckbourn's method insists on an audience's awareness of the actor at once as character and performer; but unlike Brecht's didactic works aimed at rousing an audience to action, Ayckbourn uses his A-effect to heighten an audience's exhilaration. Laughter, he knows, does not preclude the engagement of the mind. Brecht distances his audiences by suggesting unperformed alternate possibilities; Ayckbourn engages his audience by providing those alternates. In How the Other Half Loves the overlapping of time and place provides a telling commentary on Britain's class structure. The technique leads Ayckbourn to expand the limits of theatrical presentation even further with alternate scenes in Sisterly Feelings, even alternate plays in The Norman Conquests, climaxing with Intimate Exchanges, an extraordinary work for two performers that moves in sixteen directions, stemming from a woman's seemingly trivial decision whether to have or not to have a cigarette. The role in our lives of chance and/or choice is a recurring concern for a playwright who never loses sight of his primary function - to entertain his audience. Remarkably, as Ayckbourn's plays darken, that audience continues to roar with laughter, but after the laughter comes a contemplation of a less-than-perfect world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 1880 2005 written by Mary Luckhurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Download or read book Nichols Plays 2 written by Peter Nichols and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring their emotional baggage with them on a holiday to France; Privates on Parade is a hit play inspired by the author's experience in Singapore after the war working for the Combined Services Entertainments where he met among others John Schlesinger and Kenneth Williams at a time when 'mixed' entertainment relied on men dressing up as women; Born in the Gardens is inspired by the author's native city Bristol while Passion Play is a play about passion among the elderly - won Best Play (Evening Standard) in 1981. Poppy (the musical that opened the RSC's residence at the Barbican) is set in the Victorian Far East. It takes a pop at imperial hypocrisy and wickedness and won the Best Musical award.
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 C Group 3 Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Plays of Alma De Groen written by Elizabeth M. Perkins and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alma De Groen is a New Zealand born playwright who came to Australia in 1964, married the artist Geoffrey De Groen and began writing plays in 1968. Twenty-four years after the performance of her first play she has made a formidable contribution to contemporary drama with stage plays and with television, film and radio scripts, each of which is distinguished by her unique dramatic vision and her unusual insight to human life and society. Each play is distinct from the others, beginning with her first performed stage play, The Joss Adams Show (1970), through to the controversial and highly acclaimed The Rivers of China (1987), and the compassionate The Girl Who Saw Everything (1991). The importance of her work has been recognised by awards which include two AWGIEs and the New South Wales State Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Drama in 1988.
Download or read book Judy Upton Plays 2 written by Judy Upton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her early break-through at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995, where she won the George Devine award and was joint winner of the Verity Bargate Award, Judy Upton has proven herself to be one of Britain's most prolific and diverse writers. In this, her second collection, we see work ranging from 1995 through to the 2000s and a collection of short work created during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. Bruises (1995) Royal Court Theatre, London - "This is no angry polemic but a subtly atmospheric piece ... Neither writer nor director seeks easy answers in this coolly disturbing view of an issue usually hammered home with both fists." (Evening Standard) The Girlz (1998) Orange Tree, London - "Judy Upton's ever-promising career takes another small leap forward with this tantalising foray into characteristic Upton territory, the febrile world of foul-mouthed, disadvantaged young females from the south-east." (Time Out) Sliding With Suzanne (2001) Royal Court Theatre, London - "Judy Upton probably won't thank me for saying so, but her new play, Sliding with Suzanne, comes over as that rarest of phenomena - a contemporary play with a Right-wing agenda. If Margaret Thatcher went to see it she would be appalled by the language and much of the action but would, I suspect, end up applauding its sentiments." (Telegraph) Gaby Goes Global (2009) New Wimbledon Theatre, London - A wry and mischievous look at the benefits system, and the world of fine art. Gaby is a downtrodden employment advisor at the Benefit Delivery Centre. She tries to get rich by promoting the struggling artists who sign on. But it is Gaby who grabs all the attention - with the sort of exposure she hadn't bargained for... Lockdown Tales (2020) - "a story of struggle, hope, even more struggle and then hope which provides a sensitive and sincere insight into the mind of a key worker during lockdown ... a must watch and is the epitome of the type of work that should be produced during lockdown." (A Younger Theatre)
Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by Francis Asbury Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staged Readings written by Michael D'Alessandro and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
