Fifteen One-Act Plays

Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345802764
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s Head

Fifteen One-Act Plays

Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345802772
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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."

Two-character Plays for Student Actors

Author: Robert Mauro
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9780916260538
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Each of the plays is a complete dramatic work varying in length from 10--30 minutes. Scripts are excellent for secondary and university level. Comprises 9 plays for 1 man and 1 woman; 3 plays for 2 men; and 3 plays for 2 women.

Terrence McNally

Author: Terrence McNally
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description

Motel Chronicles

Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872861430
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

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.

American Blues

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822200253
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
THE STORIES: MOONY'S KID DON'T CRY. A short play about a worker, his wife and child. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE DARK ROOM. A tragic sketch about an Italian woman and a welfare worker. (1 man, 2 women.) THE CASE OF THE CRUSHED PETUNIAS. A delightful, hum

Three One-Act Plays

Author: Woody Allen
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307548058
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise—and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do). These plays (successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast) dramatize Allen’s continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they’re doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deception—all of it revealed in Allen’s quintessentially pell-mell dialogue.

20/20

Author: Michele Volansky
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Collection of 20 one-act plays chosen from the Humana Festival.