Playwriting

- Have we met?- No: you're unforgettable. Do you want to play primo or secondo, James?At St Pancras International, a woman sits at the piano and begins to play. The music captivates commuters, tourists and, following a viral clip, people around the world...

An introduction to the mysterious theater role of a dramaturg by a legend in the field"This book is marvelous. . . . Fascinating. . . . An absolute joy to read."-Gil Roth, Virtual Memories podcast Anne Cattaneo was among the first Americans to fill the...

Featuring conversations with theatre makers in the US and UK during the first 8 months of the Covid-19 lockdown, this collection reveals the innovations in digital theatre as artists, companies and theatres had to adjust to the restrictions and formulate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881459685Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

Wind in tall trees. White sky. Rain soon. Hooves on earth. Twigs. Snap. Wait. Listen.A new experiment in performance from Katie Mitchell, Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson. Using only sound and no words, a quartet of performers and Foley artists evoke the...

You're one of the lucky ones. Most peopledon't catch an Annie until it's too late.At twenty, Sam's life is all forward motion-until the arrival of an unexpected companion changes everything. What begins as a normal day unravels into something stranger,...

Football. It's what defined my happiness. It's what filled my soul with joy and occasionally... despair.It's the EURO 2020 Final at Wembley and Billy's gone viral for sticking a flare up his arse! Billy and his best pal Adam are die-hard football fans...

Morgan runs a community choir who meet weekly in a room above the local pub to sing great pop songs, chat and drink.There's Paul, a former West End performer who now does local radio voiceovers; Esther and Joy, best friends who can't stand each other;...

Through the magic of cinema, you are about towitness The Greatest Spy Movie (n)Ever Made!Agent Blonde has 24 hours to save the world.The only things standing in her way aredastardly villains, an outrageous plot, and...a lack of funding. When Hollywood...

When a woman teams up with a snake, a storm always follows.A new dark comedy by Ben Weatherill, Motorhome Marilyn follows Denise, an aspiring actress with an obsessive relationship with Marilyn Monroe, who headed to Hollywood in the 1980s, hoping to live...

The challenge is to live in this world, not a new oneA veteran US astronaut is about to land back on Earth after completing his very last space flight. A lonely ham radio operator in Donegal is surfing frequencies in want of some company. This unlikely...

A unique play anthology featuring five gripping audio docudramas that each explore pivotal historical events in American history. From debates about the First Amendment and Freedom of the Press to the development of the Atomic Bomb and the Civil Rights...

BashThree darkly brilliant one-act plays, unblinking portraits of the evils abroad in everyday life, first performed in 1999. 'You don't need to be familiar with Greek tragedy to admire LaBute's ability to illuminate the dark corners of the human mind . ...

This book offers radical new insights into the relation between realism, feminism and gender identities in contemporary theatre. It maps the theatrical forms emerging from a 'new wave' of women's playwriting in Britain in the 2010s, unsettling the...

A great deal has been written about early modern temporality, both by scholars of Renaissance drama and historians of chronometry. Much of the former has focused, unsurprisingly, on Shakespeare. This book seeks to broaden the discussion of temporality...

Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, Once Before I Go explores the bonds of Irish queer lives across three decades in Dublin, London and Paris.This...

BODIES IN FLIGHT make performance where flesh utters and words move, challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers, and audiences and place. Emerging from rigorous interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, often...

How are plays constructed? Taking this essential question and looking at a broad range of Western plays, from Greek tragedies through Ibsen, we can discern a remarkably stable set of dramaturgical principles.Some dramatists adhere to traditional...

A prolific playwright in the US, Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi explores, through his dramatic work, the immigrant experience. Addressing the personal, political and social encounters of those trying to adapt to new western countries and...

Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit...

When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing of the history play has been the preserve of the white...

This study offers a historicization of the 2010s in British theatre with a focus on the representation of systemic violence, exploring productions that engage with concerns of protest, climate crisis, neoliberalism, racism and gender-based violence. It...

Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre is the first anthology of Irish documentary drama. It features five challenging plays by Irish writers, and one by an international author, interrogating and commenting on crucial events of Irish history and of the...

This is a critical edition, or "edition critique," of Victor Hugo's play Hernani. The in-depth introduction includes a study of the manuscript, the galley proofs and all other original documents. The preface and play contain a critical apparatus that...

This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno's character "Cantinflas," and in the esquirol of the 1960s Actos of the Teatro Campesino. Spanning multiple regions...

These volumes feature works from across Lai's career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances. Volume One contains:Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land Look Who's Crosstalking Tonight The Island and the Other Shore I Me She Him...

These volumes feature works from across Lai's career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances. Volume Two contains:Millennium Teahouse Sand on a Distant Star Like Shadows The Village Writing in WaterAbout the AuthorStan Lai...

Footpaths and Bridges celebrates the vitality and diversity of Native American women, collecting plays ranging from ETHNOSTRESS-a humorous take on art and identity politics-to the biographical musical Te Ata to a retelling of the Thanksgiving story from...

The latest volume in the Michigan Modern Dramatists series offers an authoritative but accessible look at Harold Pinter, one of the greatest and most influential postwar British playwrights and author of classic works such as The Birthday Party and The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786057566287Author George Bernard ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest BooksPublisher E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786057861214Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest BooksPublisher E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786057876928Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest BooksPublisher E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993418792Author Kenneth MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Not AvailPublisher Not AvailWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956087355Author Kenneth MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Lightning SourcePublisher Lightning SourceWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Marco Paolini: A Deep Map breaks new ground in the field of Italian political theatre by outlining the unique approach of one of Italy's most celebrated playwrights, Marco Paolini, whose work has hitherto remained inaccessible to English-speaking...

In EMore 10-Minute Plays for TeensE young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights a such as Don Nigro Sherry Kramer and Kayla Cagan and by others less well known but equally terrific such as Wayne Paul Mattingly ...

Stan Lai (Lai Shengchuan) is one of the most celebrated theatre practitioners working in the Chinese-speaking world. His work over three decades has pioneered the course of modern Chinese language theatre in Taiwan, China, and other Chinese speaking...

Theatre exists because of the human need to tell our stories. The process of literary adaptation allows a writer to take a beloved or intriguing story and make it life-sized on the stage, giving non-theatrical texts a vivid voice: stories that speak to...

The latest volume in the Michigan Modern Dramatists series offers an authoritative but accessible look at Harold Pinter, one of the greatest and most influential postwar British playwrights and author of classic works such as The Birthday Party and The...

For this book Lawrence Harbison has interviewed successful playwrights who have developed relationships with theaters that regularly produce their plays have had at least one major New York production have their plays published by a licensor such as...