Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies

Author: Federico García Lorca
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200905
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.

Five Plays

Author: Lord Dunsany
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : One-act plays
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description

Five Plays by Langston Hughes

Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253201218
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Five plays representing Hughes' dramatic writing over a period of forty years.

Five Plays

Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140432190
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.

Five Plays

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804775745
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are available to an English-speaking audience. Marina Brodskaya's new translations of Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard not only surpass in accuracy all previous translations, but also provide the first complete English text of the plays, restoring passages entirely omitted by her predecessors. This much-needed volume renders Chekhov in language that will move readers and theater audiences alike, making accessible his wordplay, unstated implications, and innovations. His characters' vulnerabilities, needs, and neuroses—their humanity—emerge through their genuine, self-absorbed conversations. The plays come to life as never before and will surprise readers with their vivacity, originality, and relevance.

Five Plays

Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559365017
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author's home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives. The plays included in this volume are: Pocatello The Few A Great Wilderness Rest A Permanent Image Samuel D. Hunter's plays are populated with characters from the bleak side of the American economy. Laced with poetic images yet drawn with meticulous realism, Hunter's plays linger in franchise restaurants, retirement facilities, mountain camps, and struggling businesses.

Five One-act Plays

Author: Alan Ball
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822213680
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
THE STORIES: The perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MADE FOR A WOMAN are perfect examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too, and they have each other. All is fine until she feels

Five Plays

Author: Michael Weller
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361439
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Long-unavailable, Michael Weller's Five Plays is the definitive look at the generation which came of age in the '60s.

Katrina on Stage

Author: Suzanne M. Trauth
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127504
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
The plays collected in this volume give artistic expression to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, especially at the level of individual lives forever altered. Besides telling the kinds of stories that the news media could not, these plays explore the deeply rooted problems plaguing New Orleans and illuminate many social, political, and environmental issues central to American life. The factual basis of these plays serves a documentary purpose, but, as drama, they personalize the events surrounding the storm, depicting unimaginable anguish, powerlessness, and displacement as well as courage, communal spirit, and activism.

Twenty-Five Short Plays

Author: Dana Coen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635763
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
In the fall of 2011, The Long Story Shorts One Act Festival was launched, featuring performances of short plays written by undergraduate students in the Writing for the Screen and Stage minor, an interdisciplinary, dramatic writing program housed in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marking the first five years of the festival, this anthology showcases works written to be performed in ten minutes with a small production budget. The festival gives students a unique opportunity to participate in a collaborative, developmental environment led by experienced faculty and professional actors and directors, and the plays included here rise to the occasion. Whether they are humorous, poignant, powerful, or provocative, they demonstrate why the short play form has become so popular; why this event has become one of the highlights of the university's cultural scene; and why the Writing for the Screen and Stage program has thrived.