Impassioned Embraces

Author : John Pielmeier
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822205562
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impassioned Embraces written by John Pielmeier and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing largely with the many aspects of love (from the sublime to the ridiculous) and with the trials and terrors that actors must face, the plays mingle hilarity and poignance as they explore the problems that romance--and the need for self-expression--can engender. We encounter, for example, an actor struggling through a particularly devastating rehearsal; two teenagers gingerly dissecting a frog--and their sex lives; a bridegroom who finds that he really loves the bridesmaid rather than the bride; a woman (masquerading as a man) who tries to pick up a man (masquerading as a woman) in a bar; a couple chattering through a "splatter film" whose conversation is even wilder, and more intriguing, that the soundtrack of the movie; and assortment of sad/funny monologues about the various perils (and pleasures) of the acting profession; a wildly funny farce involving a man about to undergo a vasectomy, a shockingly inept doctor, an irate (and pregnant) nurse, and the doctor's madly jealous wife.

Author : Jack Temchin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557831521
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One on One written by Jack Temchin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). Over 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage, written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet * Brian Friel * Steve Tesich * Harold Pinter * Alan Ayckbourn * Timberlake Wertenbaker * Neil Simon * John Patrick Shanley * Jane Anderson * Elizabeth Swados * Ariel Dorfman * Craig Lucas.

Author : Ed Hooks
Publisher : Back Stage Books
ISBN 13 : 0823099490
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, Updated and Expanded Edition written by Ed Hooks and published by Back Stage Books. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.

Author : John Willis
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832047
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre World 1992-1993 written by John Willis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season

Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350012785
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comedy Acting for Theatre written by Sidney Homan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable – and hilarious – performances. Rooted in performance and performance criticism, Sidney Homan and Brian Rhinehart provide a detailed explanation of how comedy works, along with advice on how to communicate comedy from the point of view of both the performer and the audience. Combining theory and performance, the authors analyse a variety of plays, both modern and classic. Playwrights featured include Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Christopher Durang, and Michael Frayn. Acting in Shakespeare's comedies is also covered in depth.

Author : Erva Zuckerman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595403735
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Different by Bonjenji written by Erva Zuckerman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1918 at Bolenge in the Belgian Congo, the daughter of American missionaries, Bonjenji (Erva Zuckerman) experiences two very different worlds as she grows up in the era between two World Wars. By the time she is twelve, she will say goodbye to Africa and travel around the world, arriving in Washington, D.C. in 1931. Her parents look forward to going home, but she is leaving the only home she has ever known-her beloved Bolenge. "With clarity and simplicity, Erva Zuckerman leads us through the amazing first twenty years of her long life, from schoolwork on a screened porch by the Congo to social work in New York City. On the epic journey from there to here, her father, a missionary doctor, drove the family in a truck-which broke down and was put back together, it seems, almost daily-across Africa from west to east. From there we follow the family around the world to America, where Erva aspires to find her place as she comes of age during the Depression years. Rich in detail and unaffected in its style, the book reflects the personality of the author, as aptly described in her high school yearbook: 'Thoughtless of beauty, she is beauty's self.'" -Martha Heyneman, author of The Breathing Cathedral and The Productions of Time

Author : Thomas Colley Grattan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agnes de Mansfeldt written by Thomas Colley Grattan and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grant Allen et al
Publisher : 谷月社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sturdy Oak written by Grant Allen et al and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sturdy oak; a composite novel of American politics by fourteen American authors: Samuel Merwin, Harry Leon Wilson, Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Canfield, Kathleen Norris, Henry Kitchell Webster, Anne O'Hagan, Mary Heaton Vorse, Alice Duer Miller, Ethel Watts Mumford, Marjorie Benton Cooke, William Allen White, Mary Austin, Leroy Scott. Theme by Mary Austin, the chapters collected and (very cautiously) ed. by Elizabeth Jordan; illustrations by Henry Raleigh.

Author : Kathleen Morris
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1645402797
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lily of the West written by Kathleen Morris and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award The Lily of the West, winner of the 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best First Western Novel is the story of Mary Katherine Haroney, known as the notorious "Big Nose Kate." In the American West of the 1800s, women had few choices, but Kate made her own way. A Hungarian immigrant, Kate forged her way across the American frontier, an orphaned stowaway on a Mississippi riverboat who became the belle of the Dodge City music halls, known for her outspoken manner and her alluring appearance. Classically educated, she spoke four languages, finding love and much in common with a charming but volatile dentist from Atlanta, Dr. John Henry (Doc) Holliday. She was a trusted friend of the Earps and Bat Masterson, an adventurous woman who witnessed the violent lawlessness that preceded the end of an era. I was moved to tears many times by the story of Kate's love for Doc Holliday and impressed by the vivid detail with which the author painted the story of star-crossed lovers. A new take on the O.K. Corral, from a woman's point of view. —Roundup Magazine, Western Writers of America Writing in first person, Morris gives the woman's struggle an immediacy and poignancy not usually found in a traditional western. A good companion for Mary Doria Russell's Doc (2011), this compelling debut will appeal to readers of any gender. —Booklist

Author : Mary Hunter Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sturdy Oak written by Mary Hunter Austin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: