Download or read book Appropriate An Octoroon Plays Revised Edition written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Revised Broadway version of Appropriate. Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play. A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers. In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch. An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece. Also includes the short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...
Download or read book An Octoroon written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.
Download or read book Appropriate written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle the accounts of the newly-dead patriarch. As his three adult children sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, they collide over clutter, debt, and a contentious family history. But after a disturbing discovery surfaces among their father's possessions, the reunion takes a turn for the explosive, unleashing a series of crackling surprises and confrontations.
Download or read book The Octoroon written by Dion Boucicault and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everybody written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living.
Download or read book Gloria written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.
Download or read book Stunning and Other Plays written by David Adjmi and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nearly everything about David Adjmi’s Stunning has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue." –Time Out New York This volume of distinctive work includes Stunning, set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage bride’s world is disrupted by her intellectual African American housekeeper; Evildoers, about the collapse of two privileged couples; and Elective Affinities, a post-9/11 monologue. David Adjmi’s work has been produced at Lincoln Center Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, and the Royal Court in London. He has received numerous commissions and is the recipient of a 2009 Kesselring Fellowship and a Bush Artist Fellowship.
Download or read book As Bees in Honey Drown written by Douglas Carter Beane and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Evan Wyler has just finished a photo session with his shirt off. No, he's not a supermodel; he's a twenty-something New York writer savoring the success of his debut novel. Defined by the media as the hot-young thing-of-the-moment, Eva
Download or read book Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun written by Rebecca Ann Rugg and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of four contemporary plays that reflect the themes of racial and cultural difference of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun.
Download or read book Fairview written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place…! FAIRVIEW is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of white supremacy.
Download or read book Sugar in Our Wounds written by Donja R. Love and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a plantation somewhere down south, a mystical tree reaches up toward heaven. Generations of slaves have been hanged on this tree. But James is going to be different, as long as he keeps his head down and practices his reading. Moreover, as the Civil War rages on, the possibility of freedom looms closer than ever. When a stranger arrives on the plantation, a striking romance emerges, inviting the couple and those around them into uncharted territory.
Download or read book Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts 1 2 3 written by Suzan-Lori Parks and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—The New York Times "Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."—New York Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present. Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.
Download or read book 1984 written by George Orwell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
Download or read book Theatre and Human Rights written by Gary M. English and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines. While human rights research and programming often employ the arts as representations of human rights-related violations and abuses, this study focuses on dramatic form and structure, in addition to content, as uniquely positioned to interrogate important questions in human rights theory and practice. This project positions theatre as a method of examination in addition to the important purposes the arts serve to raise consciousness that accompany other, often considered more primary modes of analysis. A main feature of this approach includes emphasis on dialectical structures in drama and human rights and integration of applied theatre and critical ethnography with more traditional theatre. This integration will demonstrate how theatre and human rights operates beyond the arts as representation model, offering a primary means of analysis, activism, and political discourse. This book will be of great interest to theatre and human rights practitioners and activists, scholars, and students.
Download or read book Admissions written by Joshua Harmon and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values, with convulsive results. A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy.
Download or read book Cost of Living written by Martyna Majok and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating accident. John, a brilliant and witty doctoral student, hires overworked Jess as a caregiver. As their lives intersect, Majok’s play delves into the chasm between abundance and need and explores the space where bodies—abled and disabled—meet each other.
Download or read book The Lines Between the Lines written by Bess Rowen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How stage directions convey not what a given moment looks like--but how it feels
