Download or read book The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays written by Mariano Tenconi Blanco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world to the edges of the great Paraná river, and from the city of Buenos Aires to its fertile plains and the estuaries of northern Argentina, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays provides a unique insight into the preoccupations and the creative responses of one of the major theatre-producing countries in Latin America. Includes the plays: La vida extraordinaria (Extraordinary Life) by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, translated by Catherine Boyle Pato verde (Green Duck) by Fabián Miguel Díaz, translated by Gwen MacKeith Fonavi by Leonel Giacometto, translated by Rosalind Harvey Nou Fiuter (No Future) by Franco Calluso, translated by William Gregory Poema ordinario (Poor Men's Poetry) by Juan Ignacio Fernández, translated by William Gregory Fuego de dragón sobre dragón de madera (Dragon Fire over Wood Dragon) by Candelaria Sabagh, translated by Kate Eaton

Download or read book Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel Gonz lez Melo written by Abel González Melo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of Cuba's most important contemporary playwrights, Abel González Melo is known for a hybrid poetics in which he employs contemporary formal features, such as non-linear storytelling and flashbacks, interwoven with elements from the classical tradition in order to stage the ignoble realities of postmodern life. " (Lillian Manzor, University of Miami) Born in Havana in 1980, Abel González Melo is a rare example of a contemporary Cuban playwright whose work is performed and celebrated not only in Cuba, but also in the US, the Americas more widely, Europe, and beyond. Investigating a raft of national and universal themes, such as queer sexuality, the dilemma of leaving or remaining, political power and censorship, family dynamics, the ambition and responsibility of the artist, and so-called 'cancel culture', González Melo's work is international and universal in scope. The result of a 20-year collaboration with translator William Gregory, this collection of six plays surveys González Melo's eclectic two-decade career: from his beginning with earlier works exploring the pulsing underworld of early-2000s Havana in Chamaco and Nevada, through to his most recent takes on theatre and its intersection with contemporary issues in Tell Me the Whole Thing Again and Abyss. Complete with an edited introduction by Ernesto Fundora and a translator's note from Gregory, Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel González Melo explores not only González Melo's oeuvre but also his distinctive stylistic and aesthetic variety, gained from living in both Spain and Cuba.

Download or read book A Fight Against written by Pablo Manzi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He said, 'The day will come when they don't cut our heads off in front of people.' And I asked him, 'Why?' And he said, 'Because we'll cut them off ourselves.'” A lecturer in Chile. A study group in the USA. A guard in the desert. A hangman in Mexico. A woman who won't stop dancing in Peru. Pablo Manzi's darkly comic odyssey across the Americas explores whether violence brings us closer together and what it takes to make a community. A Fight Against... marks the English-language debut of one of Chile's most significant new voices. It was developed on a residency at the Royal Court Theatre, London, where it premiered in December 2021 in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.

Download or read book Sincerity Forever written by Mac Wellman and published by Broadway Play Publishing In. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two profane aliens have landed in the Southern town of Hillsbottom. Is God watching? Does he care? Is God a He? Mac Wellman addresses these and other questions in this Obie Award-winning play that skewers the social malignancy of ignorance. In 2003, The Village Voice gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Mac Wellman: "... [he] has long situated himself on the frontier of new forms. He's not only an experimental dramatist of the first rank, but also an eloquent champion of the avant-garde ... Like Beckett's characters, the figures in his work inhabit both a purely theatrical world and a space that will not let you forget the social realities compounding the existential mystery." "In SINCERITY FOREVER, Mac Wellman's savage comedy about everyday lunacies in America, two adolescent girls in a dirt-poor Southern town calmly accept the order of the universe. God must have a plan, says one, or why else would He keep both of them 'ignorant forever in absolute sincerity.' Like everyone else in Hillsbottom, the two are wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes. They are blissful in their brainlessness, confessing they cannot tell good art from bad art and do not know why junk bonds are junky. The conversation dwells on important matters like boyfriends rather than on child abuse or the plutonium-poisoned water that is killing their community. Mr Wellman's view of contemporary society is dire but not doleful. In his headlong search for social and political commentary, he never neglects his comical instincts, starting with the fact that the play is dedicated to Jesse Helms ... The framework of the play is fantasy. A 'mystic furball' has infected Hillsbottom. What, you may ask, are furballs? They are foul-mouthed aliens that look like partly plucked chickens. The two who have landed (or have emerged from Hell) are played in full comic plumage ... Because of the play's graphic language and its approach to piety, some theatergoers may find SINCERITY FOREVER offensive, a fact that should please the playwright. Mr Wellman does not play anything safe as he does his danse macabre far out on the cutting edge." -Mel Gussow, The New York Times

Download or read book Global Queer Plays written by Danish Sheikh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique anthology bringing together stories of queer life from international playwrights, these seven plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of queer narratives across the globe: the absurd, the challenging, and the joyful. From the legacy of colonialism in India to the farcical bureaucracy of marriage law in Kosovo; from a school counsellor in Taiwan coming out as HIV+, to coming of age in an Israel-Palestine coexistence camp, this is a genre-spanning collection of global writing. Contempt by Danish Sheikh (India) 55 Shades of Gay by Jeton Neziraj, translated by Alexandra Channer (Kosovo) No Matter Where I Go by Amahl Khouri (Jordan) Only the End of the World by Jean-Luc Lagarce, translated by Lucie Tiberghien (France) Taste of Love by Zhan Jie, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Taiwan) Peace Camp Org by Mariam Bazeed (Egypt) Winter Animals by Santiago Loza, translated by Samuel Buggeln and Ariel Gurevitch (Argentina) Originally selected and performed as part of the Arcola Queer Collective's Global Queer Plays call-out event.

Download or read book The Tuning of the World written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Desire After Dark written by Andrew J. Owens and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, the occult in film and television has responded to and reflected society's crises surrounding gender and sexuality. In Desire After Dark, Andrew J. Owens explores media where figures such as vampires and witches make use of their supernatural knowledge in order to queer what otherwise appears to be a normative world. Beginning with the global sexual revolutions of the '60s and moving decade by decade through "Euro-sleaze" cinema and theatrical hardcore pornography, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the popularity of New Age religions and witchcraft, and finally the increasingly explicit sexualization of American cable television, Owens contends that occult media has risen to prominence during the past 60 years as a way of exposing and working through cultural crises about queerness. Through the use of historiography and textual analyses of media from Bewitched to The Hunger, Owens reveals that the various players in occult media have always been well aware that non-normative sexuality constitutes the heart of horror's enduring appeal. By investigating vampirism, witchcraft, and other manifestations of the supernatural in media, Desire After Dark confirms how the queer has been integral to the evolution of the horror genre and its persistent popularity as both a subcultural and mainstream media form.

Download or read book America in the British Imagination written by J. Lyons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.

Download or read book Two Sisters and a Piano written by Nilo Cruz and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Set in 1991, during the Pan American Games in Havana and while the Russians are pulling out of Cuba, this play portrays two sisters, Maria Celia, a novelist, and Sofia, a pianist, serving time under house arrest. Passion infiltrates poli

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1980-07 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams written by Nilo Cruz and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning...A seductive story of clashing theatrical titans. Mr. Pendleton creates an engrossing picture of success, failure, betrayal, guilt, and ravening fear among a shifting constellation of stars of film and theater. --NY Times. In this highly entertai

Download or read book Mexican Plays written by Elyse Dodgson and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in wake of sold-out Mexican season at Royal Court.

Download or read book Imagining Human Rights in Twenty First Century Theater written by F. Becker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character and significance of this encounter.

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Robert Icke Works One written by Robert Icke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of his multi-awardwinning work. Includes: Oresteia: Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written. Uncle Vanya: Chekhov's late masterpiece examines human behaviour in all of its beautiful, terrible, laughable contradiction. Mary Stuart: Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of British history's famous rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. The Wild Duck: A new version of Ibsen's masterpiece about the nature of truth, in which a stranger intervenes to reveal the lies in the past of a family, with tragic consequences. The Doctor: Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke has written a gripping moral thriller that uses the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality.

Download or read book A Short History of Film Third Edition written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.