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1) The frogs
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Aristophanes, the greatest of comic writers in Greek and in the opinion of many, in any language, is the only one of the Attic comedians any of whose works has survived in complete form He was born in Athens about the middle of the fifth century B C, and had his first comedy produced when he was so young that his name was withheld on account of his youth. He is credited with over forty plays, eleven of which survive, along with the names and fragments...
2) Essays
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A collection of "deceptively simple, profoundly thoughtful, fiercely honest" essays on art, life, and politics by the acclaimed actor and playwright (Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn).
Whether writing about the genesis of his plays, such as Aunt Dan and Lemon; discussing how the privileged world of arts and letters takes for granted the people who serve our food and deliver our mail; describing his upbringing in...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr. Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Jack Hibberd talks about bringing down the forth wall in Dimboola and the existential clown in A Stretch of the Imagination. Debra Oswald explores the ugly ducking story underlying...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Alice Pung discusses memoir, loosing her mother tongue in s, searching for her father's secrets in the Killing Fields of Cambodia in Her Father's Daughter and working on the project...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr. Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Joanna Murray-Smith discusses the power of words in Nightfall and explores love, identity and belonging in Honour. Louis Nowra talks about shedding the misconceptions of childhood...
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In The Crafty Art of Playmaking, this seminal guide from renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn shares his tricks of the trade.
From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, this book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for those with more experience. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and a heady air of sophistication, The Crafty Art of Playmaking is a must-have for aspiring playwrights,...
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«Soy el pecado que te dio nueva ilusión en el amor. Soy lo prohibido». Dino Ramos y Roberto Cantoral ¿Por qué dos amigas no pueden tirar, por qué no tirar con los maridos o las mujeres de los amigos, por qué no desear a quien no nos desea, por qué no amar y dejarse amar sin condiciones, por qué no enamorar sin estar enamorado, por qué no dormir sin tirar, por qué no tirar sin dormir, por qué no tener una pareja no romántica o no sexual,...
12) Uncle Vanya
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Uncle Vanya (1898) is a four-act play by Russian short story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Astrov. Reviews were lukewarm at first, but as the play continued to run, Uncle Vanya gained both popularity and critical prowess, and has since become one of the most influential dramas ever produced.
When retired...
13) Stage fright
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Scholastic Inc
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[2014]
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English
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Ed and his friends accidentally sign up for a playwriting contest, a dangerous activity for someone who possesses the Silver Center, and what they write is pretty strange, but when it comes to actually performing the play, Ed's magic coin lends new meaning to the words "stage fright."
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This novel is about a psychiatrist, Jason Wallace, who becomes enraged upon discovering his wife Lisa's infidelity. Unable to cope with the affair, he develops a dreadful plan to get rid of her. He takes advantage of a patient, Josh Wit, who is diagnosed with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) to carry out his scheme. Jason becomes the prime suspect in the mysterious murder but ultimately pleads not guilty. All of the evidence, however, points at...
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Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson.
16) Dramatic Works
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Perhaps some day I'll disappear forever,' muses the master-builder Psymmachus in Cyprian Kamil Norwid's Cleopatra and Caesar, 'Becoming one with my work...' Today, exactly two hundred years from the poet's birth, it is difficult not to hear Norwid speaking through the lips of his character. The greatest poet of the second phase of Polish Romanticism, Norwid, like Gerard Manley Hopkins in England, created a new poetic idiom so ahead of his time, that...
17) Two Halfs
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John Andrew Murray is a writer, architect and travelogue publisher. He was born and lived in west Belfast through the 60s, 70s and 80s at the height of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland.John is from a working class family. He joined a local running club and completed 4 full marathons before he was 16 years old. He worked for an architect's office when he left school at 16 then moved to England at the age of 20 where he continued working and studying...
18) The Dead Stage
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"The Dead Stage — the period of time between completing the working draft of a stage play and placing it with an interested party." — Dan WeathererDan Weatherer, an author turned playwright, learned quickly that there are practices playwrights can implement to dramatically increase the appeal of their work.
Inside, you'll find advice that will enable you to better tailor your work to the needs of the theatre industry, without having to compromise...
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A short monologue.
Scene: the present day. It's nearly ten to midnight on Christmas Eve. A hospital radio studio at a medium-sized community hospital near Wigan. 68 year-old volunteer amateur broadcaster ROLAND GOOLE is finishing his program before the station frequency switches to BBC Radio 2 at midnight...
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POSEIDON IN ATLANTIS – LONG SYNOPSIS The background: This is the second of 4 dramas in the Atlantis cycle. In the first, "Eden In Atlantis", dissident scientist Lucifer was banished from Celestium, capital city of the great southern land, for revealing secrets of fire to the common people. He was exiled to an island in the Atlantic, Atlantiha, where a matriarchal society ruled. Taking the name of Adam, he brought science to the island, by which...
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