Download or read book The Potsdam Quartet written by David Pinner and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the Potsdam Conference the "big four" of Stalin, Truman, Churchill and Atlee are "dividing up the world" offstage. Onstage are the four embittered musicians who are there to provide the background music to the conference. The play explores the personal and professional conflicts of a string quartet who have been playing together for many years, but are on the point of disintegrating"--Publisher.

Download or read book The Stalin Trilogy written by David Pinner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the plays Lenin in Love, The Teddy Bears' Picnic and The Potsdam Quartet Three gripping political plays: Lenin in Love takes up the alleged sexual troika and sadistic inclinations of one of the foremost political leaders of the 20th century. The Teddy Bears' Picnic is an ironic comedy which shows Stalin playing relaxed host and bon viveur in his country retreat. His Politburo guests are somewhat less relaxed. The Potsdam Quartet features four embittered musicians hired to entertain Stalin, Truman, Atlee and Churchill as they ‘divide up the world'.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-02-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book Acting by Mistake written by William Roudebush and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-06-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ACTING BY MISTAKE is a practical guide for actors that operates under the premise that a mistake is the actors true opportunity to create. The book addresses high stakes situations and how to involve yourself in a process that puts you in control. The energy that fear, doubt and lack of confidence generates is crippling to the creative process. ACTING BY MISTAKE will give you the tools you need to convert crippling energy into a new resource for opportunity. The book is filled with ideas that embrace exactly what you need to do when you cant remember your lines, become intimidated by other actors, hear yourself talking while you audition or perform, have difficulty looking another actor directly in the eye, can only say a line on way or you just lack confidence in your own skills. This book focuses on specifically what to do when you step onto the stage to audition, rehearse, or perform. There is no pretense; just practical suggestions for situations you encounter everyday as a developing artist. If you already have experience, this book will afford you the opportunity to look at your past in a new light. If you are a neophyte, you can begin your process with roots firmly planted in the soil of a positive creative process.

Download or read book The Heart of Things written by Giles Cole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a weekend in May 2010, in the aftermath of the general election, the political parties are wrangling over who will form the government. Meanwhile, in a village near the Norfolk coast,a disillusioned English teacher and part-time election volunteer comes home for a rare visit and tries to put his life in order.However, the politics of family life can be every bit as vindictive and unpredictable as the Whitehall variety, and alliances can be made or broken without warning.The Heart of Things examines the conundrum that exists in sexual identity and the ‘minor disturbances’ that have far-reaching effects in people’s private lives.

Download or read book Told Look Younger written by STEPHEN WYATT and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told Look Younger is a provocative, frank and perceptive comedy about sex, love, friendship and growing old. Three encounters between three gay men in their early sixties in a restaurant where neither the menu nor the decor are ever the same. It premiered at the Jermyn Street Theatre to great critical acclaim in June 2015.

Download or read book The Green Bay Tree written by Mordaunt Shairp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I hope I shan't meet you one day in Piccadilly with a painted face, just because you must have linen sheets" A beautiful young man is forced to choose between the love of his fiancée and the lifestyle of his male mentor. This is the infamous comedy of manipulation that, in 1934, made a leading Broadway star of Laurence Olivier, opposite his then-wife Jill Esmond. The Green Bay Tree (1933) was a scandalous hit in the West End and on Broadway.

Download or read book Newton s Darkness Two Dramatic Views written by Carl Djerassi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed … like other mortals?” asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. “We need unsullied heroes!” But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was 300 years ago: a scientist's ethics must not be divorced from scientific accomplishments. There is probably no other scientist of whom so many biographies and other historical analyses have been published than Isaac Newton — all of them in the standard format of documentary prose because of their didactic purpose to transmit historical information. Newton's Darkness, however, illuminates the darker aspects of Newton's persona through two historically grounded plays dealing with two of the bitterest struggles in the history of science.The name of Isaac Newton appears in virtually every survey of the public's choice for the most important persons of the second millennium. Yet the term “darkness” can be applied to much of Newton's personality. Adjectives that have been used to describe facets of his personality include “remote”, “lonely”, “secretive”, “introverted”, “melancholic”, “humorless”, “puritanical”, “cruel”, “vindictive” and, perhaps worst of all, “unforgiving”. The trait most relevant to the present book is Newton's obsessively competitive nature, which was often out of proportion to the warranted facts, as demonstrated in three of Newton's best-known bitter conflicts: with the physicist Robert Hooke, the astronomer royal John Flamsteed, and a German contemporary of almost equal intellectual prowess, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — the last fight eventually turning into an England vs Continental Europe competition. It is two of these three relentless drawn-out battles that are illuminated in Newton's Darkness in the form of historically grounded drama.After a summary of the historical evidence, the book starts with the Newton-Hooke struggle (Chapter 2), which was conducted mano a mano, and is then followed by little-known aspects of the Newton-Leibniz confrontation (Chapter 3), which was fought largely through surrogates — notably the infamous, anonymous committee of 11 Fellows of the Royal Society./a

Download or read book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot written by Rebecca Crookshank and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Happy 17th Birthday Crookshank, how ‘bout a cup of SUCK IT THE F K UP?!’ With over 4 million views on Channel 4 News online and a critically acclaimed run at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, multi-award nominated Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on the true story of ex-Airwoman Crookshank and her time serving in the Royal Air Force protecting the UK Air Defence Region. Charting her journey from basic training to the Falkland Islands. She celebrates friendship, awakens her creativity, and uncovers the dark truths about sexual harassment and bullying in the armed forces. A heart-warming tale of courage and survival. Per ardua ad astra – through adversity to the stars... Warning: Contains strong language, weapons, and penguins.

Download or read book Martine written by Jean-Jacques Bernard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War is over. It is the summer of 1920, in rural France. By a dusty road, a girl is sitting under the shade of an apple tree. She sees someone walking towards her. He is a young man, just back from fighting in Syria. He joins her under the tree, and a tragic love story begins. Often compared to Chekhov, and much admired by Harold Pinter, Jean-Jacques Bernard creates a unique emotional landscape of beauty and longing, desire and disappointment. Martine was written in 1922 and John Fowles wrote this translation for a revival at the National Theatre in 1985.

Download or read book The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith written by Arthur Wing Pinero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘That is what marriage gives – the right to destroy years and years of life.’ Venice, Easter 1895. In the cafes around St Mark’s Square, all the gossip among the English ex-pat community is about two mysterious arrivals in the city. Agnes Ebbsmith is a young widow with a scandalous past. Travelling with her is Lucas Cleeve, an up-and-coming Tory MP who has abandoned his wife in London. Defying convention, Agnes and Lucas are refusing to marry, and living in a ‘compact’ together. But before long their peace is shattered by the arrival of Lucas’s aristocratic family from London. The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith is a dramatic, entertaining,and utterly enthralling play by one of the greatest Victorian dramatists. This playtext, slightly adapted from the original,was prepared for its first ever revival, presented by Primavera at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2014. The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith was last performed by Mrs Patrick Campbell in the West End in 1895. With an introduction to the play and its historical context by Dr Sos Eltis.

Download or read book Medal of Honor Rag written by Tom Cole and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A youthful Black veteran of the Vietnamese Conflict meets with a psychiatrist for a therapy session. The soldier struggles with the horrors of his past, causing the psychiatrist to confront his own memories and guilt..

Download or read book Catchpenny Twist written by Stewart Parker and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Total Eclipse written by Christopher Hampton and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Hampton Drama Characters: 10 male, 5 female, plus extras Various Sets Revised version. Total Eclipse is an intelligent look at the relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine and shows considerable insight into the bourgeois and artistic societies of the period as well as a moving understanding of homosexuality. "The first six scenes develop the contrast between the two men...and their mutual need for each other as they move th

Download or read book Big Maggie written by John B. Keane and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1969 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Enter a Free Man written by Tom Stoppard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised version of the author's 1963 television play, A walk on the water.