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

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."

Fifteen One-Act Plays

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

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.

Five One-Act Plays

Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
ISBN: 9780717117765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
The comedy 'The End of the Beginning' and the sketch 'A Pound on Demand' were both published in 1934 as part of the collection of essays, verse and fiction, entitled 'Windfalls'. 'Hall of Healing, A Sincerious Farce', 'Bedtime Story' and 'Time to Go, A Morality Comedy', were written in 1951.

Fifteen American One-act Plays

Author: Paul Kozelka
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
A collection of plays by such authors as: Christopher Morley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gerge S. Kaufman, Booth Tarkington, Zona Gale, and Stephen Vincent Benet, among others.

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.

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.

Every Fifteen Minutes

Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466874619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline's visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes, brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts. Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country, and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric's entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient. Max can't turn off the mental rituals he needs to perform every fifteen minutes that keep him calm. With the pressure mounting, Max just might reach the breaking point. When the girl is found murdered, Max is nowhere to be found. Worried about Max, Eric goes looking for him and puts himself in danger of being seen as a "person of interest" himself. Next, one of his own staff turns on him in a trumped up charge of sexual harassment. Is this chaos all random? Or is someone systematically trying to destroy Eric's life?

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