Download or read book Playmaking written by Daniel Judah Sklar and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sklar's personal account of teaching dramatic writing, direction, and performance, to a group of 7th graders in the South Bronx, reveals the planning and execution of his lessons. It also addresses the reception such lessons received-including resistance. Teachers and Artists-in-Residence stand to gain much from this book, since it deals with real life dynamics in the classroom and necessary strategies for getting through a project in a thought-provoking, fun, and creative way for everyone participating. "I love this book. It's a great read, and it taught me a lot about playwriting, theater, and young people."-Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides.
Download or read book Urban Play written by Fabio Duarte and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers. In Urban Play, Fábio Duarte and Ricardo Álvarez argue that the merely functional aspects of technology may undermine its transformative power. Technology is powerful not when it becomes optimally functional, but while it is still playful and open to experimentation. It is through play--in the sense of acting for one's own enjoyment rather than to achieve a goal--that we explore new territories, create new devices and languages, and transform ourselves. Only then can innovative spatial design create resonant spaces that go beyond functionalism to evoke an emotional response in those who use them. The authors show how creativity emerges in moments of instability, when a new technology overthrows an established one, or when internal factors change a technology until it becomes a different technology. Exploring the role of fantasy in design, they examine Disney World and its outsize influence on design and on forms of social interaction beyond the entertainment world. They also consider Las Vegas and Dubai, desert cities that combine technology with fantasies of pleasure and wealth. Video games and interactive media, they show, infuse the design process with interactivity and participatory dynamics, leaving spaces open to variations depending on the users' behavior. Throughout, they pinpoint the critical moments when technology plays a key role in reshaping how we design and experience spaces.
Download or read book Playing the Game and Making the Play written by Stephanie Doyle and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two unforgettable prequel novellas, reader-favorite author Stephanie Doyle introduces the town of Minotaur Falls, where baseball and love collide with exhilarating—and unexpected!—results… Playing the Game Sports journalist Pete Wright is unsettled when the Minotaur Falls minor league team is sold to a stranger. What does billionaire Jocelyn Taft know about baseball? Still, no one—least of all Pete—is prepared when he teaches Jocelyn all about the game of baseball…and gets a lesson in love in return. Making the Play Tomboy Scout Baker has a wicked crush on her new apprentice, former ballplayer Jayson LeBec. Fortunately, the town's big upcoming wedding gives Scout a chance to show off her very best assets. But when the bride gets jitters, things get out of hand…and the town of Minotaur Falls will never be the same! There's more Minotaur Falls in Harlequin Superromance's The Comeback of Roy Walker…when one man gets a second chance at bat and at love.
Download or read book Playing to Win written by Alan G. Lafley and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.
Download or read book Beetlejuice written by Eddie Perfect and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). This matching folio to the 2019 Broadway musical based in the 1988 film of the same name features 15 vocal arrangements with piano accompaniment. Songs include: Barbara 2.0 * Creepy Old Guy * Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) * Dead Mom * Fright of Their Lives * Girl Scout * Home * Jump in the Line * No Reason * Prologue: Invisible * Ready, Set, Not Yet * Say My Name * That Beautiful Sound * What I Know Now * The Whole "Being Dead" Thing.
Download or read book The Play Produced written by John Fernald and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buyer Cellar written by Jonathan Tolins and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original script of the award-winning off-Broadway play—“irresistibly entertaining [and] surprisingly moving” (Paul Rudnick). Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in LA, he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement—but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? A winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show, Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs. “Jonathan Tolins has concocted an irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises . . . This seriously funny slice of absurdist whimsy creates the illusion of a stage filled with multiple people, all of them with their own droll point of view.” —The New York Times “A gorgeous play: funny and beautifully observed and richly insightful.” —Moisés Kaufman “Tolins’s writing is smart, sharp, and hilarious—and he paints a vivid picture that even a perfectionist like Barbra would have to applaud.” —James Lapine
Download or read book Original Works written by Chris Mackowski and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a director or producer who has shied away from doing a new play, cast aside your doubts, pick a new script, and get ready. Award-winning playwright and director Chris Mackowski shares the experiences and advice of more than 50 theatre professionals whose practical and insightful suggestions will help you raise the curtain on new and exciting plays and lower it to thundering applause. Producers and directors will find tips on: searching for and evaluating original scripts determining the best way to fit an original play into their overall season sponsoring a contest, hosting a festival, or conducting readings for new plays hosting a playwriting group or a playwright-in-residence. Promotions and marketing personnel will learn how to: find the right hook to promote a show use original shows to define their theatre's niche market themselves to audiences. Not only does Mackowski take you from promotion through post-production, he also provides example financial reports, a timeline of events for conducting a new play contest, and a link to an exclusive website where you can download annotated models of press releases, specialized budgets, and other forms that can help any theater putting on original plays. Feed your artistic impulse and stop shying away from new plays. Read Chris Mackowski and let Original Works work for you!
Download or read book Pattern Plays written by Ellen Catherine Oakden and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Play making written by William Archer and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 1912 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship is an exceptional primer which aims to answer the essential question: "How are theatrical plays written?" This valuable resource for aspiring playwrights contains essential techniques for composing a quality stage play. William Archer, an educator in English literature, presents the traditional theory of play composition in a straightforward, engaging manner, that the reader can quickly learn and put the knowledge to practical use. We begin with an examination of the choice of plotting theme, casting of characters, and the dramatic and undramatic constitution of the play. A sequential examination of the play details how the first act must establish the location and roles, setting up what is to follow with tension and curiosity. Archer proceeds to cover aspects crucial to a quality drama, such as the ratcheting of tension and contrast of logical developments with those happening by chance. He delves into the methods of concluding the events, be it a conventional climax or an anticlimax. Finally, the book concludes with a series of pointers on dialogue, and the psychological aspects of the characters.
Download or read book Breath Boom written by Kia Corthron and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Fourteen years in the life of Prix, a Bronx native, from her ruthless girl-gang leadership at sixteen through her coming to maturity at thirty. But children do not become violent in a vacuum: As a small child Prix was raped by her mother
Download or read book Play Making written by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship is a guidebook which answers the essential question: ""How do I write theatrical drama?"" This book is a valuable resource for aspiring playwrights who wish to learn essential techniques of authoring a quality stage play. William Archer, an educator in English literature, presents the traditional theory of play composition in a manner both straightforward and engaging in a manner useful, practical and highly accessible. The text begins by examining the choice of theme, the casting of characters, and what constitutes dramatic and undramatic elements of a play. A sequential look at each portion of the typical play begins; the first act establishes the place and characters, and must set up what is to follow with tension and curiosity. Drawing on unrivaled masters of the craft such as William Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen, this book offers an informed and authoritative commentary on composing plays useful for both students and teachers of English literature or drama.
Download or read book Playwrights on Playmaking and Other Studies of the Stage written by Brander Matthews and published by Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1967]. This book was released on 1967 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Future Conditional written by Tamsin Oglesby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future Conditional tackles the nightmare of British schooling through a myriad of characters including parents, teachers, and Alia, a prodigiously clever fourteen-year-old Afghan refugee and the newest member of Britain’s Education Research Board. Alia has a radical solution for Britain’s schools that could restore our place in the world education league. But is the system ready to take lessons from a schoolgirl...?
Download or read book Pattern Plays written by Ellen Catherine Oakden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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