Антологии: драма

Book DescriptionThe seven one-act plays in this collection were first performed in the New Plays Festival at Gardner-Webb University in 2004. The Festival is an initiative of the theater program at GWU dedicated to developing new plays and encouraging early-career playwrights. Different Dialects is a dance-inspired exploration of a married couple's journey into mid-life. Equal Opportunity Employer is an eccentric tale of mayhem and madness in the life of a talent agent. Good Help employs a film noir motif to spoof the end of the world. Around the Horn is a tale of second chances played out on the baseball diamond. Seaglass is an existential comedy about two bums on life's journey to find meaning. Doctors Like Boats is a riotous comedy of wit and dialogue set in a Doctor's office. The Translation explores the human aspects of privacy invasion in a new age of terror and electronic surveillance.

Book DescriptionTo celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Women's Project & Productions, this collection presents six of the Project's most outstanding productions.

Book DescriptionMAJOR VOICES: THE DRAMA OF SLAVERY. For the first time, this Toby anthology brings together a selection of plays that shaped the ways in which slavery was performed in the nineteenth-century American theatre. From SLAVES IN ALGIERS (by Susanna Rowson, 1794) to PECULIAR SAM; OR, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (by Pauline Hopkins, 1879); from the blatantly opportunistic adaptation of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (1852) by George Aiken to the rare 1855 play THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE (the only dramatization of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN written by Harriet Beecher Stowe) and the ardently abolitionist THE STARS AND STRIPES (by Lydia Maria Child, 1858); and from a play written by a former slave, THE ESCAPE (by William Wells Brown, 1858), to racist, pro-slavery minstrel texts, this anthology allows readers to see how Americans from diverse backgrounds and standpoints staged slavery. In so doing, it also places important but hard-to-find texts like THE FUGITIVES (written by an anonymous abolitionist...

Book DescriptionTranslations into contemporary poetry of two masterpieces of the Golden Age of Greek theatre.

Book DescriptionThis anthology includes the Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival produced by The Riant Theatre, NYC. Make Her Happen by L.E. McCullough: A waitress at a roadside diner jumps at the opportunity to get discovered and make her dreams come true. The Squeegee Man by Nick Vigorito, Jr: A reporter finds inspiration for stories through the squeegee man on the street corner outside her office. Monkey Rhythms by John Baldi: Three generations of a family deal with their love for each other. Hidden in the Past by Michael A. Casano: A young girl interviews her grandmother to find out more about her family?s history. Pension Check by Jonathon Ward: An out-of-work steelworker tries to support his family in the wake of his father?s illness. Other plays include: The Boy Who Was Born With A Tail by Matt Casarino, The Kissing Booth...

Book Description1909. Contents: All For Love; Or the World Well Lost; The School for Scandal; She Stoops to Conquer; The Cenci; A Blot in the Scutcheon; Manfred.

Book Description Works in this anthology have been selected with drama teachers and their students in mind. A variety of ways to put on a play are presented, all within reach of a student group— each scene will make a seamless transition from classroom to stage. Numerous subgenres of theater are encompassed within the collection, from an exercise in choral poetry to a puppet show.

Book DescriptionThis collection of hilarious plays from the 15th to the 20th centuries is brimming with all of the venerable ingredients of French farce. Distinguished drama scholar Albert Bermel has gathered together some of the best in the genre, and the merriment, ribaldry, and wit of the works dance through his translations brilliantly.

Book Description1909. Contents: The House of Atreus; Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus. Oedipus the King; Antigone by Sophocles. Hippolytus; The Bacchae by Euripides. The Frogs by Aristophanes.

Book Description Goodnight Lovin' Trail : At a truck stop diner in West Texas, two wounded strangers find redemption in each other's eyes while discussing a stolen guitar. And the beat plays on. Negotiating The Elusive Perfect One Night Stand : In a world of settling for Mister Right Now while looking for Mister Right, a young couple find that they may have gotten more than they bargained for. Destinations : What if you're married and the opportunity arises for you to have a causal affair, is it worth the consequences? Some people want to go there, but can they find their way back? Who Knew? : A young man prepares to meet his mother for the first time but doesn't realize how deeply the meeting will affect his fiance. The Harlequin Maneuver : A delightful comedy in which a man enters the romance novel he's been reading to gain some closure in his love life. The Decision : A man makes a decision after he...