Download or read book Pvt Wars written by James McLure 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: Three G.I.s recovering from Vietnam War injuries while away their time on the terrace of an Army hospital. Gately, a hillbilly, fiddles compulsively with a disemboweled radio; Silvio, a streetwise, big-city type, is addicted to flashing (even

Download or read book The Humana Festival written by Jeffrey Ullom and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from the glittering lights of Broadway, in a city known more for its horse racing than its artistic endeavors, an annual festival in Louisville, Kentucky, has transformed the landscape of the American theater. The Actors Theatre of Louisville—the Tony Award–winning state theater of Kentucky—in 1976 successfully created what became the nation's most respected new-play festival, the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The Humana Festival: The History of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville examines the success of the festival and theater’s Pulitzer Prize–winning productions that for decades have reflected new-play trends in regional theaters and on Broadway—the result of the calculated decisions, dogged determination, and good luck of its producing director, Jon Jory. The volume details how Actors Theatre of Louisville was established, why the Humana Festival became successful in a short time, and how the event’s success has been maintained by the Louisville venue that has drawn theater critics from around the world for more than thirty years. Author Jeffrey Ullom charts the theater’s early struggles to survive, the battles between troupe leaders, and the desperate measures to secure financial support from the Louisville community. He examines how Jory established and expanded the festival to garner extraordinary local support, attract international attention, and entice preeminent American playwrights to premier their works in the Kentucky city. In The Humana Festival, Ullom provides a broad view of new-play development within artistic, administrative, and financial contexts. He analyzes the relationship between Broadway and regional theaters, outlining how the Humana Festival has changed the process of new-play development and even Broadway’s approach to discovering new work, and also highlights the struggles facing regional theaters across the country as they strive to balance artistic ingenuity and economic viability. Offering a rare look at the annual event, The Humana Festival provides the first insider’s view of the extraordinary efforts that produced the nation’s most successful new-play festival.

Download or read book The Fantod written by Amlin Gray and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The scene is a country manor in nineteenth-century England, where the widow Marryat and her adolescent daughter, Rachel, await the arrival of Sir Tristam Northmoor, a gentleman of clouded origin who had been with their departed husband a

Download or read book Duo written by John Horvath and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a wide range of age, genre, and character choices for each duo scene.

Download or read book Dead Giveaway written by Mary Orr and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The setting is the living room of a boarded-up hunting lodge in rural Ohio, the secret hideaway of a prominent U.S. Senator. A young couple, on the run after having accidentally killed a gas station attendant during a robbery, break into

Download or read book Better Days written by Reynolds Price 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: BETTER DAYS takes place in 1974, the day of Roma Avery's funeral. Neal and Taw have moved to Roma's house to care for her in her final illness. Porter has come home on leave from the Navy. Neal and Taw's son, Cody, now a captain in the M

Download or read book Let s Make Up written by Esther E. Olson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1945-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heathen Valley written by Romulus Linney and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Set in the 1860s, the action of the play centers on the desire of the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina to bring the word of God to a valley so remote and untamed that brothers marry sisters and the people live lives of brutal violence

Download or read book Sleeping Beauty And Smoke written by Laurence Klavan and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: SLEEPING BEAUTY takes place in Malcolm Harrington's brand new condominium on Staten Island, which he shares with his delightfully kooky girlfriend, Louise. Louise, who wants to decorate the apartment with balloon men and pencil drawi

Download or read book The Elements of Playwriting written by Louis E. Catron and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Catron imbued experienced and fledgling playwrights with inspiration, guidance, and a passport to maximizing their writing skills as well as their overall ability to transform written words into a stage production. He understood that being a playwright is more than putting pen to paper. It involves expressing a personal point of view, bringing a vision to life, developing dimensional characters, structuring a play’s action, and finding producers, directors, and actors to bring the work to life. In the second edition Norman Bert infuses the enduring merits of Catron’s original work with examples, technological developments, and trends geared to today’s readers. Bert’s play references are familiar to contemporary students, including examples from plays written since 2000. He includes useful information on web-based research and the electronic submission process. A new chapter focuses on the playwright’s responsibility to lay the groundwork for production elements like casting, design, theatre architecture as it impacts audience–performer relationships, staging modes, and the uses and expectations of stage directions. Also new to this edition are reading resources for delving deeper into topics discussed.

Download or read book Continental Divide written by Oliver Hailey and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1973-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Lucille and Cullum are wealthy New Yorkers living as virtual prisoners in their lavish Fifth Avenue apartment, the entire block being held in a state of siege by rebelling domestic servants. They are, however, allowed a visit by their ne

Download or read book Bargains written by Jack Heifner and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: At the beginning of BARGAINS, the female clerks in the local discount store are preparing for a mid-summer sale and gossiping over marked-down goods that nobody wants. Sally, prim and conservative, still lives with her tyrannical mother.

Download or read book A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama Volume 3 Beyond Broadway written by C. W. E. Bigsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-05-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume of Christopher Bigsby's critical account of American drama in the twentieth century.

Download or read book Act Like a Man written by Robert H Vorlicky and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive study of plays written for male characters only, Robert Vorlicky offers a new theory that links cultural codes governing gender and the conventions determining dramatic form. Act Like a Manlooks at a range of plays, including those by O'Neill, Albee, Mamet, Baraka, and Rabe as well as new works by Philip Kan Gotanda, Alonzo Lamont, and Robin Swados, to examine how dialogue within these works reflects the social codes of male behavior and inhibits individualization among men. Plays in which women are absent are often characterized by the location of a male "other"—a female presence who distances himself from the dominant, impersonal masculine ethos and thereby becomes a facilitator of personal communication. The potential authority of this figure is so powerful that its presence becomes the primary determinant of the quality of men's interaction and of the range of male subjectivities possible. This formulation becomes the basis of an alternative theory of American dramatic construction, one that challenges traditional dramaturgical notions of realism. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in drama, gender, race, sexuality, and American culture, as well as playwrights, teachers of playwrights, and artistic directors. It includes an extensive bibliography of more than four hundred male-cast plays and monodramas, the first such compilation and one that points to further research into a previously unexplored area.

Download or read book Southern Cross written by Jon Klein and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: SOUTHERN CROSS is an epic play that navigates the river of history in the Southern United States, uncovering cycles of retribution and deliverance. The paths of many historical figures cross, from the Civil War to the era of Civil Righ

Download or read book Routed written by Jeffrey Sweet and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Director s Voice written by Arthur Bartow and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foremost stage directors describe their working process: JoAnne Akalaitis, Arvin Brown, René Buch, Martha Clarke, Gordon Davidson, Robert Falls, Zelda Fichandler, Richard Foreman, Adrian Hall, John Hirsch, Mark Lamos, Marshall W. Mason, Des McAnuff, Gregory Mosher, Harold S. Prince, Lloyd Richards, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Woodruff, and Garland Wright.