New One-act Plays for Acting Students

Author: Deb Bert
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes fifteen scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologues and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avante garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use.

Twelve Classic One-Act Plays

Author: Mary Carolyn Waldrep
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112527
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
This collection of royalty-free plays contains classics by well-known playwrights: Glaspell's Trifles, Synge's Riders to the Sea, Strindberg's The Stronger, plus works by Aristophanes, Chekhov, Yeats, Barrie, and others.

Seven One-act Plays

Author: Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822217053
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
THE STORIES: In BETTE AND ME, the author and the legendary Bette Midler get their hair done, try on makeup, and row a boat on the Hudson River. They finally end up at Radio City Music Hall, where Wendy rises from the orchestra pit on a half-shell w

The One-Act Play Companion

Author: Colin Dolley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474213898
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard. This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre waiting to be discovered. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered as well as essential contact information and where to apply for performance rights. A chapter introducing the history of the one-act play rounds off the title as a definitive guide.

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219204
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

One-act Plays for Acting Students

Author: Norman A. Bert
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9780916260477
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
23 short length plays for a cast of one, two, or three. 5 minutes acting time for each character. Performance times vary from 8-15 minutes.

Random Acts of Comedy

Author: Jason Pizzarello
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981909974
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Home of the most popular one-act plays for student actors, Playscripts, Inc. presents 15 of their very best short comedies. From a blind dating debacle to a silly Shakespeare spoof, from a fairy tale farce to a self-hating satire, this anthology contains hilarious large-cast plays that have delighted thousands of audiences around the world. Includes the plays The Audition by Don Zolidis, Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit by Jonathan Rand, 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview by Ian McWethy, Darcy's Cinematic Life by Christa Crewdson, The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fifth Period by Jason Pizzarello, Small World by Tracey Scott Wilson, The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe by Werner Trieschmann, The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet by Peter Bloedel, Show and Spell by Julia Brownell, Cut by Ed Monk, Check Please by Jonathan Rand, Aliens vs. Cheerleaders by Qui Nguyen, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon by Don Zolidis, 15 Reasons Not To Be in a Play by Alan Haehnel

Six One-Act Plays

Author: Stanford
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125002888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Containing plays by Chekhov, James Barrie, Sacha Guitry, W. W. Jacobs and Margaret Wood, this book provides an introduction, exercises, notes and stage directions which will be extremely useful to student performers.

Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays

Author: M. Bennett
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137043938
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Eugene O'Neill, Nobel Laureate in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winner, is widely known for his full length plays. However, his one-act plays are the foundation of his work - both thematically and stylistically, they telescope his later plays. This collection aims to fill the gap by examining these texts, during what can be considered O'Neill's formative writing years, and the foundational period of American drama. A wide-ranging investigation into O'Neill's one-acts, the contributors shed light on a less-explored part of his career and assist scholars in understanding O'Neill's entire oeuvre.

24 Favorite One Act Plays

Author: Bennett Cerf
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0385066171
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, and A.A. Milne.