Brontë

Author: Polly Teale
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854598820
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The short troubled lives of the Bronte sisters have become one the great literary myths of all time. How was it possible that three women who had never had sex, had probably never been kissed, could write some of the most erotic literature of all time? And why should these plain, reclusive women, who lived in rural isolation, have invented such stories.

Jane Eyre

Author: Polly Teale
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854593290
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Mr Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night.

We are Three Sisters

Author: Blake Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422148
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A literary 'mashup' ingeniously combining Chekhov and the Brontës that throws new light on old masterpieces.

Wish List

Author: Katherine Soper
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848426023
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A play that asks what labor is worth and how life can be lived when the system is against you.

How to Be a Heroine

Author: Samantha Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101872101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
While debating literature’s greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation—her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre. With this discovery, she embarks on a retrospective look at the literary ladies—the characters and the writers—whom she has loved since childhood. From early obsessions with the March sisters to her later idolization of Sylvia Plath, Ellis evaluates how her heroines stack up today. And, just as she excavates the stories of her favorite characters, Ellis also shares a frank, often humorous account of her own life growing up in a tight-knit Iraqi Jewish community in London. Here a life-long reader explores how heroines shape all our lives.

Speechless

Author: Sarah Schleuning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300247039
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Explore the many ways in which we connect to the world around us through our senses in speechless: different by design, an exhibition of multisensory, interactive, and immersive experiences for visitors of all backgrounds and abilities. Created in collaboration with designers, scholars, and scientists, speechless presents unique opportunities for discovering new perspectives through communications beyond speech and words. Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art, speechless: different by design will debut site-specific installations and new commissions by six leading and emerging international designers and design teams--Ini Archibong, Matt Checkowski, Misha Kahn, Steven and William Ladd, Laurie Haycock Makela, and Yuri Suzuki. Their new works will create participatory environments in which senses are merged or substituted for one another--for instance, sound will become visible and language will become tactile--so that visitors can engage with their surroundings in new and unconventional ways."--

The Guys

Author: Anne Nelson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822219026
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
THE STORY: Less than two weeks after the September 11th attacks, New Yorkers are still in shock. One of them, an editor named Joan, receives an unexpected phone call on behalf of Nick, a fire captain who has lost most of his men in the attack. He's

Lizzie Siddal

Author: Jeremy Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848423923
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"London, 1849. Lizzie Siddal is plucked from the obscurity of a bonnet shop to model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an intoxicating group of young painters bent on revolutionising the Victorian art world. Inspired by their passion and ambition, she throws herself headlong into their lives and their art - nearly dying during the creation of Millais' Ophelia. The painting is a triumph. But Lizzie wants more and dares to dream of being an artist. Jeremy Green's new play tells the dramatic story of Lizzie's dazzling trajectory from model to lover to artist, to a tragic figure in her own right."--Page [4] of cover

Blue Stockings

Author: Jessica Swale
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848423299
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'Love or knowledge: which would you choose?' A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage. 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a 'blue stocking' - an unnatural, educated woman. They are denied degrees and go home unqualified and unmarriageable. In Jessica Swale's debut play, Blue Stockings, Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate the hurdles in their way: the distractions of love, the cruelty of the class divide or the strength of the opposition, who will do anything to stop them. The play follows them over one tumultuous academic year, in their fight to change the future of education. Blue Stockings received its professional premiere at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in August 2013, directed by John Dove.

The Actor's Art and Craft

Author: William Esper
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 030727926X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to any challenge an actor faces, from soap operas to Shakespeare. Co-writer Damon DiMarco, a former student of Esper's, spent over a year observing his mentor teaching first-year acting students. In this book he recreates that experience for us, allowing us to see how the progression of exercises works in practice. The Actor's Art and Craft vividly demonstrates that good training does not constrain actors' instincts—it frees them to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.