Banned By The BBC! How I Became a Radio Pirate
When the famed pirate-radio ships were banned by the British government in 1967, their legacy was continued by clandestine land-based pirates, risking capture at every broadcast to break the BBC's radio monopoly.Written by the co-founder of notorious pirate station Radio Concord (1971-77), this personal memoir spans the never-before-told inside story of pirate radio, squatting, punk music, social issues, and revolutionary politics roiling in the demi-monde of 1960s and 1970s London.Why was my phone tapped? What made the police, Special Branch, crime reporters, and even the post office pursue me? Free speech and privacy rights come at a steep price in any age, as we now know in this post-Manning, -Assange and -Snowden world.Highlights include: squatting the Queen's Windsor Castle Great Park; scaling Mick Jagger's house; befriending Joe Strummer; and dancing naked at a Stonehenge Free Festival. Mingle with hippies, judges, intellectuals, politicians, techies, artists and rock stars! Experience Jimi Hendrix's disastrous last concert; crashing a Rolling Stones private rehearsal; and survive a motorbike ride with Bison in the Badlands. All that and more for the reading in Banned BY The BBC!
Dramatism and Musical Theater
Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance is an innovative workbook for both students and teachers in advanced communication performance. Meeting at the nexus of English composition, advanced rhetoric, theater, music, and drama, this book utilizes Kenneth Burke's method of dramatism to discover the motives inherent in performance practices, whether they be in the classroom or on the stage. In this book Kimberly Eckel Beasley and James P. Beasley take the five corners of the dramatistic pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose) and demonstrate their utilization in performance analysis. The authors then correlate those performance practices with the production of five contemporary musicals: Little Women, Aida, Street Scene, Into the Woods, and Children of Eden in order to emphasize the use of the dramatistic pentad in character, scene, and staging direction. By doing so, the book highlights dramatism as a performance practice necessary for effective participation in artistic communities. Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance is also an indispensable guide for teachers and directors to successfully navigate the challenges of collegiate theatrical production.
Breaking Into Acting for Dummies
Understand the business side of your showbiz career We all know acting can be a glittering whirl of glamour--plush red carpets, simply divine outfits, huge sums of money, and oh, the parties! But what a lot of wannabe actors forget is that it takes a lot of practical work to get to the flashbulbs of your first premiere, and that the savviest actors put as much stress on the business side of the profession as they do on the show. Breaking Into Acting For Dummies demystifies the behind-the-curtain side of showbiz to help you understand how it really works, who the decision-makers are, what they're looking for when they're picking talent, and how to get them on your side. If you truly want to be the next Emma Stone or Leonardo DiCaprio, you'll want to have a well-thumbed copy of this book alongside your pile of scripts. Written by two friendly insiders, this guide takes you behind the scenes to help you map out your plan of attack, showing you how to open doors--and keep them open--and use your time wisely, so you're not breaking a leg rushing from one random audition to another. You'll understand how to flesh out your professional persona as thoroughly as a movie part, craft your resume as minutely as a script, and judge the angle of your headshots and webcam appearances as intimately as any director. Once you've mastered these skills, it's time to go to market as your own publicity department, building your media and online presence until everyone who's anyone knows exactly who you are. Understand different acting markets--from theater to commercials Network in-person and online Build your image via resumes, head shots, and webcam Keep a firm grip on the financial side Whether you're studying, a hopeful amateur, or have been treading the boards for a while, this is your breakthrough script for succeeding in the business of acting, and for learning how to play your ultimate role: yourself.
ACT
"Simply put, I don't think I would've found my voice as an actor without David." -- Scott Speedman, actor "Act has the roadmap for the most crucial task of an actor: getting present." -- Shawn Doyle, actor A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art of acting from a master teacher. Act: The Modern Actor's Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America's most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most talented screen actors. This is a full tour through the concepts at the heart of Rotenberg's techniques: states of being, primaries and secondaries, images that you elaborate up or distill down, modifiers, actions and beats, and more. Although his methods loosely draw on the great acting teachers like Hagen and Meisner back to Stanislavski, he teaches new techniques suited to the best of today's screen actors. This is a major new work in the actor's library and will be pulled off the shelf time and again to find that key into a scene, to prepare for an audition, or to find that right technique to make the art come alive again.
The White Liars and Black Comedy
The White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down-and-out fortune teller a rock musician and his agent. The agent bribes Baroness Lemberg to fake some hocus-pocus over a crystal ball ostensibly to discourage the musician from pursuing his girlfriend. The trickery entangles each of them in a dense web of mendacity. Black Comedy: The fussy neighbor Harold Gorringe returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed. Unexpected guests aging spinsters errant phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored.
Chicago's Miniature Grand Operas
For more than eighty years Chicago has been home to several unique miniature grand operas. In 1935 Ernest Wolff and his mother premiered the Chicago Puppet Opera Company.In 1941 the theatre was installed as after-dinner entertainment at Fredrik Chramer's Kungsholm Scandinavian Restaurant. When the theatre was destroyed in 1947, a 208 seat jewel-box opera house was created as the state-of-the-art home to the unique rod puppets. The Kungsholm Miniature Grand Opera closed in 1971 but William Fosser's Opera in Focus continues the miniature opera genre in a Chicago suburb. Here is the story of these three entrepreneurs and their determination to create grand opera. The book includes a study of the puppets' construction and manipulation.
Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration
This book questions the reliance on melodrama and spectacle in social performances and cultural productions by and about migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Focusing on archetypal characters with nineteenth-century roots that recur in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries - heroic saviors, saintly mothers and struggling fathers, martyred children and rebellious youth - it shows how theater practitioners, filmmakers, visual artists, advocates, activists, journalists, and others who want to help migrants often create migrant melodramas, performances that depict their heroes as virtuous victims at the mercy of evil villains. In order to gain respect for the human rights that are supposedly already theirs on paper and participate in a global market that trades in performances of suffering, migrants themselves sometimes accept the roles into which they are cast, or even cast themselves. Some express their suffering publicly, often on demand. Others find ways to twist, parody, resist, or reject migrant melodrama. Timely, beautifully written, and deeply researched, Puga's and Espinosa's study captures the complex nuances of how performance scholars and ethnographers grapple with telling stories of and bearing witness to trauma. They invite scholars to re-imagine the narrative genres into which histories of migration are often coerced. They question how familiar forms such as melodrama can empower or dis-empower individuals struggling to share their stories and change their circumstances. Their thoughtful work offers a compassionate and erudite model for performance ethnographers. Heather S. Nathans Alice and Nathan Gantcher Professor in Judaic Studies Tufts University In their penetrating analysis, Puga and Espinosa show how militarized borders, neoliberal economics, exclusionary immigration policies, and rising nativism have combined to create an ongoing melodrama in which migrants, journalists, and rescuers perform scripted roles as martyrs, saints, and heroes in an effort to sway a global audience of onlookers. Although the protagonists in this melodrama seek to relieve the suffering of migrants by valorizing their pain and using it as a currency in a political economy of suffering, the authors' sympathetic but critical analysis reveals both the promise and perils of this emotive strategy. Their analysis is essential to understanding how immigration is portrayed and perceived in the world today. Douglas S. Massey Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University Ana Elena Puga and V穩ctor M. Espinosa's Performances of Suffering is well-researched and compellingly theorized collaboration which reveals the affective labor performed by, withand for migrants in the United States and Mexico. In these perilous times, the lessons that this book teaches us about the performance of melodrama as a key aspect of obtaining justice and care for migrants throughout the hemisphere are crucial to understanding representations of "migrant crises" in our contemporary social media, performance and advocacy movements. Patricia Ybarra Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Brown University In this fascinating book, Puga and Espinosa illuminate the political economy of suffering among Latin American migrants. This is a timely and important work to understand how migrants, the state, humanitarian workers, and the media all perform the melodrama of the suffering migrant. An impressive and provocative book! Carolyn Chen Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California at Berkeley
Seeing the Apocalypse
Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman's best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural touchstone, emerging as a staple in the genre of contemporary horror. The essays in this collection offer an interdisciplinary approach to Bird Box, one that draws on the fields of gender studies, cultural studies, and disability studies. The contributors examine how Bird Box provokes questions about a range of issues including the human body and its existence in the world, the ethical obligations that shape community, and the anxieties arising from technological development. Taken together, the essays of this volume show how a critical examination of Bird Box offers readers a guide for thinking through human experience in our own troubled, apocalyptic times.
The Salado Creek Gang
A Black & White photo book of one persons experience putting on gunfights in San Antonio. It was put together for those who were there, those who shot their pistols with blanks, and entertained visitors with western scripts. No one was an actor, per se, but he enjoyed putting on a western outfit, getting shot and taking a nice fall...even off a building into a wagon full of hay.
Songs Our Parents Loved
In 1973, the American rock band 'The Doobie Brothers' struck pay dirt when their hit single 'China Grove' burst on to the top twenty billboard charts. Less than a month later, their equipment trailer, instruments, sound equipment and one very disgusted 'roadie' disappeared. Thirty years later, five high school misfits found friendship when they found each other, and would set out to change modern music by showing their generation what classic rock is all about. How are these two events connected? Find out in 'Songs Our Parents Loved'; a musical coming of age story that will leave you laughing, crying and singing the songs of the seventies.
Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema
Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema: History, Theory, and Reception discusses how the Hungarian and Romanian film industries show signs of becoming a regional hub within the Eastern European canon, a process occasionally facilitated by the cultural overlap through the historical province of Transylvania. Andrea Virgin獺s employs a film historical overview to merge the study of small national cinemas with film genre theory and cultural theory and posits that Hollywood-originated classical film genres have been important fields of reference for the development of these Eastern European cinemas. Furthermore, Virgin獺s argues that Hungarian and Romanian genre films demonstrate a valid evolution within the given genre's standards, and thus need to be incorporated into the global discourse on this subject. Scholars of film studies, Eastern European studies, cultural studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.
The (Almost) Complete Hitchhiker in Time
The Hitchhiker in Time columns were the single most popular things ever written by Shawn M. Tomlinson, which honestly doesn't say all that much. All together, they appeared in fewer than 10 newspapers between 1988 and 2001. Well, multiple copies of those newspapers, of course. The highest circulation was approximately 40,000, so not exactly Bob Greene levels. Still, Tomlinson had a following with these columns and to a great extent, they hold up well today. Either that or Tomlinson would like to think so. Many of these columns appeared in chapbooks over the years, but this is the first full collection of them to be in print.
Zambian Music Legends
ZAMBIAN MUSIC LEGENDS is a marathon journey into the history of Zambian music. This journey surveys the wonderful art from its traditional function in the distant past to the present era where 'Zam-ragga' and hip hop have taken root. The book also pays tribute to the often unsung heroes who have devoted their lives and careers to the growth of the music industry. Music is an essential mass media tool that contributes to the socio-cultural development of society. As a result of this the book further attempts to look at the role music has played in shaping the socio-cultural and economic development of the country. To those that were there in the past the book rekindles those sweet memories of the twisting 50's, swinging 60's and the Zam-rocking 70's. It then takes you into the 80's and 90's when Kalindula beats reverberated in the nation. To the young, as they strive to re-discover their musical identity through Zam-ragga and hip-hop, there are lessons to learn from the past. This is also their book.
Cold Reading, Fortune Telling & Mentalism For The Psychic Entertainer
Cold Reading, Fortune Telling & Mentalism For The Psychic Entertainer, the title says it all. Within the pages of this FIRST EDITION - Hard Back Book set to become a collectors item, you will be taught all you'll ever need to know to become both Confident and Competent in the Arts of Cold Reading and Psychic Style Fortune Telling. Plus you'll learn enough Psychic Tricks, Mentalism and Mind Reading to be able to formulate your own profitable stage show and close up performances. And to top it all you'll be taught how to get tons of TV, Radio, Newspaper and Magazine Publicity and Exposure for your new talents, whilst also earning a fortune into the bargain. From performing your own Derren Brown Style Mind Magic Show on the one hand through to how to give effective Tarot, Palmistry and other Psychic Readings this is the only book you'll ever need. And yes you will learn Royles unique approach of Navel Gazing aka Psychic Belly Button Reading and his art of Pawology, Dogs Paw Reading!
A Pool's Way Out The Hood
A pool's way out the hood is a short story for the world to see that everything aint always black and white;in fact life is a big ass chess game.as you read on you will feel every event, Peep how one little ghettomutherfuker by the name of Mike Remy try to shoot pool through the dope game, number running, pimping hoes, spanish mafia and other wild out situations;will he make it out?Read!
Misery Melodies & Dirty Dirges
Misery Melodies & Dirty Dirges by Michael Wade Johnson is a collection of lyrical verses written within the years of 1993-2001. From relationships, religion, self-suffering, and exaggerated tales of terror, MM & DD covers a wide variety of material and contains many different lyrical forms. Most songs written while playing in bands and some performed live. Misery Melodies & Dirty Dirges is a raw and passionate look into the world of a southeastern writer.
Stoaf and the Amazing Ice Cream Adventure
A children's entertainment in pantomime style. The adventures of a slightly overweight boy and his desire for some ice-cream. Transported to an enchanted land he has to contend with a wicked Witch, a talking tea-service, a dancing dog, and a bad-tempered Aunty. Songs, dances and laughter carry him through many colourful escapades.
I Love You! I Fucking Hate You!
The people we start out to be are not always who we become. Along the emotional super highway that is life we reevaluate and reassemble ourselves through ways and means that may not always be immediately apparent. Music is one of the great places where our emotional needs converge with our aesthetic wants and desires, colliding to create a portrait of ourselves that is ever changing, yet solid it it's pursuit of transcendence and place. In this book writer, musician, performer, and verbal hustler Frankie Delmane uses his own experiences in rock n roll listening to understand what it is about the human psyche that makes us twitch in different ways at different times when in the search of something that allows all senses to be utilized in such a way as to have us come to grips with our own, intimate selves.
Eugenio Barba and the Golden Apple
In September-October 2010 and February-March 2011, Diana Cozma had the privilege of watching the rehearsals of The Chronic Life, directed by Eugenio Barba, in Holstebro, Denmark, when she lived at Odin Teatret's guest house. Eugenio Barba's dramaturgy is discussed in the first part of the book, The Biography of a Dramaturgical Language, while the second part, The Dramaturgy of a Spectator, based on her rehearsal diary, reveals her reflections on Barba's evocative dramaturgy and her emotional and intellectual responses to the rehearsal process."I feel the author's intensity in describing the actions and thoughts of the director and the actors who for years have accompanied her in her writing both in Romanian and English. I recognise the same tension, the same desire and effort that flow from a certain passionate reaction in the human being: gratitude towards the person who opened our eyes and awakened our energies.I recognise the origin of this writing, the nature of its particular style. It reminds me of my struggle with words or with the incandescence of the actors, in the attempt to cross over into that dimension of reality which forces us to go beyond what we are. It is a struggle that is constantly accompanied by the temptation to abandon and give up.Style is the luminous radiography of the darkness within us." (excerpt from the Foreword by Eugenio Barba).
Rent a Wreck Trilogy - The Complete Scripts
The Rent a Wreck Trilogy was produced between 1996 & 1998. They were a series of animated films based on a taxi office in Wigan. Here are the complete scripts to all three classic movies. - Rent a Wreck: The Movie - Rent a Wreck 21/2 The Smell of Beamo's Bullshit - Rent a Wreck 3: The Road to Hell This book also contains storyline origins and original character background stories. Also featuring lots of stills from the films & the story of the Rent a Wreck Reunion of 2013 with photo illustrations. WARNING: This book contains adult humour throughout. Not recommended for the easily offended.
Africa Presents The Congo RDC And Mr. Aleyi Atondi - How Can This Man Live with His In-Laws For Over 15 Years?
Love is sustained when it is combined with the means of survival. In the Congolese society, a man can prove his love to his wife, only if he honors his ancestors' virtues, "Auto-sufficiency" is a key to liberty, and lethargy causes failure in relationship, especially marriage.
The Gate to the Magic Kingdom
Once there was a boy who found a key to a distance magical gate that lead him to the most magical paradise on earth and it all started at the gate to the magic Kingdom.
Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film
Analyzing how masculinity is portrayed in Brazilian crime film, connecting movie messages to twenty-first-century issues An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues. Jeremy Lehnen argues that these films promote an agenda in support of the nation's recent swing toward authoritarianism that culminated in the 2018 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.	Lehnen examines the integral role of masculinity in several archetypal crime films, most of which foreground urban violence, including Cidade de Deus, Quase Dois Irm瓊os, Tropa de Elite, O Homem do Ano, and O Doutrinador. Within these films, Lehnen finds representations that criminalize the poor, marginalized male; emasculate the civilian middle-class male intellectual, casting him as unable to respond to crime; and portray state security as the only power able to stem increasing crime rates.Drawing on insights from masculinity studies, Lehnen contends that Brazilian crime films are ideologically charged mediums that assert and normalize the presence of the neo-authoritarian male within society. This book demonstrates how gendered scripts can become widely accepted by audiences and contribute to very real power structures beyond the sphere of cinema. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by H矇ctor Fern獺ndez L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodr穩guezPublication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Caught Falling
The inside-out of dancer/Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year involvement with Contact Improvisation. The book includes Q&As between the authors tracing the history of the dance form; photos of dancing and living; life stories; anecdotes from friends, colleagues, and family; and a description of Stark Smith's Underscore. The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Stark Smith has been developing since the early 1990s. It is a score that guides dancers through a series of changing states from solo deepening/releasing and sensitizing to gravity and support, through group circulation and interaction, Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out to full group improvisation with compositional awareness, and back to rest and reflection.
Sinkhole
'SCROVEL' - A new writing GENRE. Read SinkHole in 'Scrovel' and play the MOVIE in your head as you read. 'SCROVEL' is a crossover between a NOVEL and a SCREENPLAY. Stiv and Bob are two young unworldly hunters with extraordinary shooting skills. Guns and shooting is their shared passion. One day after a fruitless day out hunting they blunder into an evolving crime scene. The criminals discover them and the situation escalates out of control. The two young men survive, but their extreme actions bring them into the World of charismatic Irishman, Michael O'Leary, a FIXER in international political assassination. Their journey from local Cumbrian town 'BOYS' to becoming 'Assassination Superstars' is a great personal cost to their family, friends and finally to their own lifelong friendship.
Music Street Journal 2017
This is the book version of the April 2017 (123) issue of Music Street Journal. It includes coverage of the following artists and more: Aerosmith Afroman Jordan Alexander Miller Anderson Ape Shifter Richard Barbieri Bellathrix Blonde on Blonde Bonomo Roland Buehlmann Leah Capelle Carptree Judy Collins and Ari Hest Cost of Attrition Deep Space Destructors Derringer Dugo Champion Jack Dupree Gandalf Hawkwind Judas Priest Jon Lord Lujuria Metallica Neal Morse The Move Bill Nelson ?resund Space Collective Jean-Luc Ponty Presence Gerry Rafferty Roja The Rolling Stones Michael Schenker Klaus Schulze Segregates Ryan Summers George Thorogood Pat Travers V簡 Rick Wakeman Binky Womack Yang Zero Times Everything While Gary Hill compiled the book and wrote many of the articles, Mike Korn, Greg Olma and Josh Turner all contributed articles and Josh Turner supplied concert photos.
Sinkhole
'SCROVEL' - A new writing GENRE. Read SinkHole in 'Scrovel' and play the MOVIE in your head as you read. 'SCROVEL' is a crossover between a NOVEL and a SCREENPLAY. Stiv and Bob are two young unworldly hunters with extraordinary shooting skills. Guns and shooting is their shared passion. One day after a fruitless day out hunting they blunder into an evolving crime scene. The criminals discover them and the situation escalates out of control. The two young men survive, but their extreme actions bring them into the World of charismatic Irishman, Michael O'Leary, a FIXER in international political assassination. Their journey from local Cumbrian town 'BOYS' to becoming 'Assassination Superstars' is a great personal cost to their family, friends and finally to their own lifelong friendship.
Music Street Journal
The collected CD reviews from Music Street Journal issues 1998-2000 of progressive rock artists whose names start with the letters M to Z. This includes Marillion, Alan Parsons, Pink Floyd, Rush, Spock's Beard, Rick Wakeman, Yes and many more. Although Gary Hill compiled this and did the bulk of the reviews, the book includes reviews from Steve Alspach, Yoni Bashan, Mike Korn and Vivian Lee.
Music Street Journal 2017
This is the book version of the August 2017 (125) issue of Music Street Journal. It includes coverage of the following artists and more: Aerial School Eric Anders BangTower Chris Bartels Black Sabbath Tim Blake Blues Image Graham Bonnet Mary Bragg Charles Brown Bubblemath Burnt Out Wreck Captain Beyond Channel K Cheap Trick Cheer-Accident Cinema Circus of the West Clear Blue Sky Stanley Clarke Commander Cody Dazed Marrow Deep Purple Dreadnaught Echolust The Electric Family Al Green Hedersleben Glenn Hughes Humble Pie iNFiNiEN Ivory Tower Project Bobby Kimball King Crimson Corky Laing's Mountain Henry Mancini Nektar Patto Anthony Phillips The Plasmatics Professor Louie & The Crowmatix Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Rhino Bucket Salim Ghazi Saeedi Styx Roger Waters Wendy?! The Who While Gary Hill compiled the book and wrote many of the articles, Greg Olma and Larry Toering also contributed articles.
The Peacemakers
THE PEACEMAKERS is a two act play about the REAL armistice agreement between two warhorse Generals from opposing sides who risked court martial to meet in secret and broker the peace agreement that ended the American Civil War.
Music Street Journal 2016
This is the book version of the October 2016 (120) issue of Music Street Journal. It includes coverage of the following artists and more: Alcatrazz Alchimy Gustavo Assis-Brasil Aubergine MACHINE Barclay James Harvest Josh Birdsong Bodragaz Joe Bonamassa Burnt Belief Celadon Candy The Channel Drifters Circuline Curved Air Deep Purple Eagle I Stallian Edensong Everlost US John Flynn Focus The fundaMentals The Furious Seasons Tanya Gallagher The Good For Nothin' Band GWAR Peter Hammill Justin Hayward He Is Me JD & The Straight Shot Percy Jones King Llama Kiss Levin Minnemann Rudess Arjen Anthony Lucassen Iain Matthews Kenny Neal Markus Reuter Robb & Pott Todd Rundgren Running Wild The Security Project Silverhead Space Invaders Stick Men Styx Kiefer Sutherland Tilted Axes Toto While Gary Hill compiled the book and wrote many of the articles, Kat Heitzman, Mike Korn and Greg Olma all contributed articles.
Foxes
Think how many others there are like me, hiding in the shadows, operating in thenight like foxes, for fear of rejection and alife of ridicule. I've worked too hard to gainmy respect only for it to be taken from mebecause of something I can't control.Foxes follows Daniel, a young black man trying to keep up with his life, which is moving fast. When his relationship with best friend Leon brings an unexpected change it creates turmoil, bringing a taboo into his family home that has the power to tear the closest and most loving relationships apart.Shortlisted for the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, Dexter Flanders's debut play Foxes explores masculinity and identity within London's Caribbean community and Black street culture.This powerful play is published in Methuen Drama's Lost Plays series, celebrating new plays that had productions postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak and the global shutdown of theatre spaces.
The Totally Random Big Trivia Quiz Book
Test your knowledge with The Totally Random Big Trivia Quiz Book (Volume 1), a quiz book for adults. There are 500 questions for you to enjoy and answers are provided at the back. This book provides hours of entertainment and is excellent for stimulating your mind, memory improvement and overall well-being.. Features: Large Trivia quiz book - dimensions 8"x 10", 4 questions per page, answers provided at the back of the book, variety of trivia questions.
Act as a Feminist
Act as a Feminist maps a female genealogy of UK actor training practices from 1970-2020 as an alternative to traditional male lineages. It re-orientates thinking about acting through its intersections with feminisms and positions it as a critical pedagogy, fit for purpose in the twenty-first century.
Mummers' Plays Revisited
Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers' plays, which have long been regarded as a form of 'folk' or 'traditional' drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre.
Star Trek, History and Us
Since 1966, the Star Trek television franchise has used outer space and the thrilling adventures of the crews of the U.S.S. Enterprise to reflect our own world and culture. Kirk and Spock face civil rights issues and Vietnam war allegories while Picard, Data, and the next generation seek an ordered, post-Cold War stability in the Reagan era. The crews of Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise must come to terms with our real life of war, manifest destiny in the 21st century, and the shadow of 9/11. Now, as the modern era of the franchise attempts to portray a utopia amidst a world spinning out of control, Star Trek remains about more than just the future. It is about our present. It is about us. This book charts the history of Gene Roddenberry's creation across five decades alongside the cultural development of the United States and asks: are we heading for the utopian Federation future, or is it slipping ever further away from reality?
Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Th矇璽tre Italien, 1716-1723
How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian's work? How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Th矇璽tre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an early modern context. When a troupe of commedia dell'arte actors were invited by the French crown to establish a theatre in Paris, they found their transition was anything but easy. They had to learn a new language and adjust to French expectations and demands. This study presents their story as a dynamic model of coping with the challenges of migration, whereby the actors made their transnational identity a central focus of their comedy. Relating their work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the border-crossing comedian's work--including diplomacy, translation, improvisation, and parody--across time.
SAM, SARA, ETC. A play in two acts
Emotionally devastated after his wife leaves him, Sam returns home, where his fisherman father has entered the family in a reality television contest. As filming ensues, the lines blur between authentic and constructed realities. Sam seeks healing while his family, and in particular his relationship with his father, descends into chaos, confrontation, and unexpected product endorsements. At turns hilarious, emotional, and philosophical, Sam, Sara, Etc. questions the meaning of identity, our roles in life, and what we might hear when everything is silent.
Broadway Musical Trivia Book
Hours of Fun-Filled Facts & Trivia Questions! - Special Launch PriceThis trivia book begins with the precursors to musical theatre throughout the world and narrows to the island we will come back to time and time again: Manhattan. We explore each thrilling decade and then cover grader topics that span the years. Each chapter begins with a series of multiple-choice and true or false questions with the answers following on the next page. After testing your knowledge, peruse the "Did you know" Section for quirky anecdotes, fun facts, and important records to addd to your knowledge. Grab a copy and test yourself on your knowledge of Broadway Theatre!
The First Arrow
The First Arrow is a one act comedy play in rehearsal format. That means the characters read from their books, props are wrong, and mistakes happen. The cast is not large enough and audience members are forced to participate.
The Serious Business of Writing, Performing & Selling Comedy
This book contains numerous tips and tools for writing sketches, one-liners and sitcom scripts, as well as invaluable insights into scripting and performing stand-up and directing sketch comedy. Based on over 30 years in the entertainment industry - including working as editor of the BBC comedy web site - Brian also passes on a wealth of tactics and strategies for getting your comedy material in front of an audience and onto the desks of the right people in the industry. Brian has been lecturing on comedy writing since 2002 and is probably best known for creating the comedy series Pets for Channel 4. He has written for sketch shows on ITV and Channel 5 and has performed countless times on the Edinburgh Fringe. His film Refusal was nominated for Best Animated Short at the Paris Film Festival in 2021, and his comedy shows Monday Tuesday Banana and Space Planet won awards at the Lisbon Film Festival and the Prague International Film Festival in 2020. Feedback from Brian's comedy workshops: "Brilliant!" John Lloyd, creator QI and Blackadder "Sublime!" Phil Mathews, Senior Tutor, Bournemouth University "I got loads of useful tips, tools and motivation" Tim Reid, co-writer Peter Kay's Car Share "Brian helped me learn the basics of how to write sketches." Imran Yusuf, Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee
Red Rain. Blood Shed from a Mending Broken Heart
this is another collection of poetry. mostly written this year. (2017) this is part one of this series...
Piano Sonata No. 1 in B-Flat Minor
Richard Martin Martirosian's Piano Sonata No. 1 in B-flat minor Inspired by the works of Scriabin, Debussy, Ravel, Medtner, Rachmaninoff, and Chopin, this two-movement piano sonata recalls the late romantic style of classical music.
Through the Years with Prince Charming
The past decade has overflowed in a raging stream of contradictions. Old certainties have yielded to relentless insecurity over a time when much of the human experience got immeasurably better even as many things only ever seemed to get worse. As Paul du Quenoy's globetrotting criticism reveals, the arts were in a ferment that matched profound and yet totally unpredicted social and political transformations. Balanced, sometimes precariously, against the demands of an absurd and increasingly superfluous academic career, du Quenoy spent the 2010s seeking enlightenment, inspiration, and, above all, diversion, in total works of art all over the world, ranging from the traditional cultural capitals to humbler and more remote surroundings. Peering through the prism of performance, Through the Years With Prince Charming offers a unique bird's eye view of art and life in a changing world.
