Twenty-Two a Day
Mark and Bettz, two friends and Veterans of both the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, make it their personal mission to end the epidemic of Veteran suicide. Over a period of twenty-four hours, the reader will join the two characters on a tragic journey that leads them from Mark's simple home with his wife and newborn daughter, right into their Congressman's office. Throughout Mark and Bettz's tragic journey, the reader will come face-to-face with twenty-two Veterans who have taken their lives and gain a deeper understanding of the trials and tribulations that many Veterans encounter when they return back home from service in the military.
Oscar Wilde
Die Seele des Menschen unter dem Sozialismus ist ein Essay von Oscar Wilde mit einer libert瓣r-sozialistischen Weltsicht, die auf 瓣sthetischen Idealen statt auf 繹konomischen Theorien beruht. Die Sozialisierung des Privateigentums sei nur ein Schritt auf dem Weg des eigentlichen Ziels des Sozialismus: die Verwirklichung des Individualismus. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) war ein irischer Schriftsteller, der sich nach Schulzeit und Studium in Dublin und Oxford in London niederlie?. Als Lyriker, Romanautor, Dramatiker und Kritiker wurde er zu einem der bekanntesten und - im Viktorianischen Gro?britannien - auch umstrittensten Schriftsteller seiner Zeit. Inhalt: - Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen - Aus dem Zuchthaus zu Reading - Aesthetisches Manifest - Zwei Gespr瓣che von der Kunst und vom Leben
The Audience & The Playwright
THE AUDIENCE & THE PLAYWRIGHT: HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF LIVE THEATRE
Paul Sills’ Story Theater
The creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature. Includes: The Blue Light and Other Stories, A Christmas Carol (Dickens), Stories of God, Rumi.
Rain of Love River of Tears
This is a story of two brilliant students, Michael and Romeo, who met in high school and were mocked by their fellow students as two best friends. They discovered their flair for music through an amazing musical performance at their prom party. Despite offers from the top universities, they chose music as their career path. Their career started in a piano bar where every performance of theirs was unique. There, Michael met Hilda, who bore him a child and died right after giving birth. Michael named his son Fleury, who was dying to find someone to call "Mom." Later on, Fleury and Michael-while playing in a park-found Melody to complete their family. But soon after, Michael was innocently thrown in jail for trying to save a life, and Melody was taken away from Fleury due to a terrible accident. Meanwhile, Fleury, a master brain who became a lawyer, salvaged his father.
Rain of Love River of Tears
This is a story of two brilliant students, Michael and Romeo, who met in high school and were mocked by their fellow students as two best friends. They discovered their flair for music through an amazing musical performance at their prom party. Despite offers from the top universities, they chose music as their career path. Their career started in a piano bar where every performance of theirs was unique. There, Michael met Hilda, who bore him a child and died right after giving birth. Michael named his son Fleury, who was dying to find someone to call "Mom." Later on, Fleury and Michael-while playing in a park-found Melody to complete their family. But soon after, Michael was innocently thrown in jail for trying to save a life, and Melody was taken away from Fleury due to a terrible accident. Meanwhile, Fleury, a master brain who became a lawyer, salvaged his father.
The Art of Godzilla
The official art and making of book for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Following the global success of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' cinematic Monsterverse, an epic action adventure that pits Godzilla against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history. The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species--thought to be mere myths--rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.The Art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters is an in-depth behind the scenes look at the epic movie. Packed with concept art, on-set photography, and insight from key members of the production--including director Michael Dougherty--this beautiful book tells the story of how Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah were brought to terrifying life.
Dressed.
After being stripped at gunpoint, Lydia set out to redress herself with a new healing set of armour. Lydia now only wears clothes she has made.Told with a tender intimacy, dressed. is a true story told by four women who have been friends since school. Combining choreography, live sewing, comedy and original music, dressed. celebrates the power clothes have to define us, to liberate us, to hide us and to embellish us.
What a Marron
Everyone's good while sleeping. We find ourselves looking at the age-old battle. Only it's for real-the criminals are real, the victims are real, everything is real. Even with the fact that the real crimes exist, the people who should care, the cops, turn the other cheek. It seems like a typical cop thing to say, "Well, there's nothing we can do." That's exactly what they do say.
It's the Wrong Way
I tried to cover all the issues right up until the US going into Iran this time. There's an old story in there that might remind you of The Little Book of Horses. I'm right on with what most of the US is saying about what those damn Christians believe about abortion. Definitely a good read while you're on a plane or bus.
Pygmalion
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and its film version.Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet.
My Wonderful World of Slapstick
Buster Keaton's autobiography is a view into the quirky mind behind the stoic face of the legendary film comedian.
Something Wonderful
A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American Century They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built. Though different in personality and often emotionally distant from each other, Rodgers and Hammerstein presented an unbroken front to the world and forged much more than a songwriting team; their partnership was also one of the most profitable and powerful entertainment businesses of their era. They were cultural powerhouses whose work came to define postwar America on stage, screen, television, and radio. But they also had their failures and flops, and more than once they feared they had lost their touch. Todd S. Purdum's portrait of these two men, their creative process, and their groundbreaking innovations will captivate lovers of musical theater, lovers of the classic American songbook, and young lovers wherever they are. He shows that what Rodgers and Hammerstein wrought was truly something wonderful.
The Arts from the Bottom Up
Author Marsha Schweitzer built a career as a professional musician, arranger, arts administrator, and journalist that has spanned more than fifty years. During that time, through her many roles, she saw vast shifts in the landscape of the arts. The Arts from the Bottom Up presents a collection of articles, letters, essays, and notes Schweitzer wrote between 1978 and 2017 as she journeyed through the nooks and crannies of the arts. Working in three parts, she begins at the bottom, with the mundane day-to-day aspects of the arts, and moves up to the organizational and spiritual aspects. "Power Play" explores the artistic workplace, with emphasis on unions and labor relations. "In Service to the Art" considers the arts from a broader perspective, addressing issues of organizational structure, governance, finance, and administration. "Peregrinations of a Pensive Artist" deals with the nature and meaning of the underlying and overarching art that ties artists, organizations, and audiences together. Throughout, she seeks to help artists break out of the deep ruts of tradition and conformity and look at problems from new and different angles.
The Works Of Shakespeare
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Barry Vs. Barrys
On the run from a ruthless DNA-cloning scientist, Barry, a brown-and-white one-year-old Jack Russell terrier, becomes homeless on the streets of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Duncan Perkins, the nutty scientist with aid from six millionaires called the Commission, experimented on lots of canines with deadly results. Fed up with Duncan's failures, the Commission funded him a large iron box Duncan named the Duplicator. With very few animals left to work with, he chose Barry's mother as his next victim. During a trial run of the Duplicator, tragedy struck. Barry's mother didn't survive. Days later, after arguing with the Commission about the incident, he was granted ten assistants also funded by them. Duncan continued his sick, twisted experiments. He ordered his assistants to inject five shots each into Barry's siblings and Barry. The siblings died several days later, but Barry survived. During a cleaning at the lab, the janitor bumped against Barry's cage, causing the lock to loosen. He escaped through the door to freedom. Now on the streets, those shots started a transformation within him. Telepathy was his first gift. Duncan was furious about his escape. He knew his funding would be in jeopardy, but he had an upper hand against the Commission as well. Working with his employers was a sassy blonde named Miriam. She was a pure snake in high heels. When word was out about termination of his lab funding, he connected with Miriam to concoct a plan against his employers. He ordered his assistants to create four more Barrys. Still on the streets, Barry befriended a couple from North Carolina. They loved him even though he had supernatural gifts. When Duncan found out Barry was headed to North Carolina, he sent Felix, his most trusted man, to track him down. Felix failed, along with others. Now tormented with pure hate and greed, he decided with Miriam to put his plan in effect against the Commission. Miriam and Duncan discussed how they would rip off his employers of the $60 million stored at the Commission's leader's mansion. In the basement was a giant walk-in safe. Meanwhile, Barry was forming an alliance of his own. With help from his new family, three canines from his mother's past, and members from the Commission themselves, they came up with a brilliant plan. During confrontation from both sides, including Duncan's assistants, Barry and his team won. Duncan was arrested by the National Humane Bureau, along with other charges. Miriam went bonkers. The $60 million was split between Barry's family, and some went to agencies for homeless and helpless animals.
The Works Of Shakespeare
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Daniel Calparsoro
Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has made a crucial contribution to contemporary Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics. Reductively dismissed as works of crude violence by those lamenting a 'lost golden age' of Spanish filmmaking, Calparsoro's films in fact reveal a more complex interaction with trends and traditions in both Spanish and Hollywood cinema. This book is the first full-length study of the director's work, from his early social-realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror. It offers an in-depth film-by-film analysis while simultaneously exploring the director's position in the contemporary Spanish context, the tension between directors and critics and the question of national cinema in an area - the Basque Country - of heightened national and regional sensitivities.
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The Works Of Shakespeare
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The Works Of Shakespeare
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The Works Of Shakespeare
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The Works Of Shakespeare
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Springfield Confidential
Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly * An A.V. Club Best Books selection * A "New and Noteworthy" selection by USA TodayIn celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show's longest-serving writer and producer offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history.Four-time Emmy winner Mike Reiss--who has worked on The Simpsons continuously since episode one in 1989--shares stories, scandals, and gossip about working with America's most iconic cartoon family ever. Reiss explains how the episodes are created, and provides an inside look at the show's writers, animators, actors and celebrity guests. He answers a range of questions from Simpsons fans and die-hards, and reminisces about the making of perennially favorite episodes.In his freewheeling, irreverent comic style, Reiss reflects on his lifetime inside The Simpsons--a personal highlights reel of his achievements, observations, and favorite stories. Springfield Confidential exposes why Matt Groening decided to make all of the characters yellow; dishes on what it's like to be crammed in a room full of funny writers sixty hours a week; and tells what Reiss learned after traveling to seventy-one countries where The Simpsons is watched (ironic note: there's no electricity in many of these places); and even reveals where Springfield is located! He features unique interviews with Judd Apatow, who also provided the foreword, and Conan O'Brien, as well as with Simpsons legends Al Jean, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, and more. Like Cary Elwes' As You Wish, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's Seinfeldia, and Chris Smith's The Daily Show: An Oral History, Springfield Confidential is a funny, informational, and exclusive look at one of the most beloved programs in all of television land.
Waiting in the Wings
The definitive guide to making a career in theater--to Broadway and beyond Tiffany Haas knows how to make it on Broadway. After 72 rejections in a row she finally landed a role in Broadway's long-running smash hit Wicked and later became "Glinda the Good." Now she wants to share her advice for starting and nurturing a career in the theater. Waiting in the Wings is the essential guide for anyone who wants to have a theatrical career, whether they're complete newbies or already have some professional credits. Based on everything she learned on her journey to New York, including 10 years on Broadway, Tiffany shares the information that you need to succeed in theater. Everyone's path is a little bit different, but the principles for success are always the same. With advice on auditions, how to become the performer they want to hire, developing relationships with cast mates, finding a reputable agent, the importance of reputation, and the best way to shape and build your career, Tiffany covers every aspect of the business. You'll learn what it takes to be successful and where to best spend your time and effort as you navigate the "great mystery" of pursuing musical theater. In an industry that is famed for its insider secrets, Tiffany draws back the curtain, giving readers the knowledge and tools they need to follow their dreams. If you're one of those people Waiting in the Wings for a big Broadway career, Tiffany Haas's book is the one resource you need to land a big role, stand in front of those footlights and let it go!
The Works of Shakespeare
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A New Slant on Acting
You've arrived in Hollywood, and you are ready to become famous and to take over the world. You have a dream, and nothing is going to stop you. You're on your way! But in order to best succeed and keep booking work, you need to know everything about film sets, their crews, and how you as an actor can help directors tell their stories. A New Slant on Acting offers a clear, detailed description of how films get made, how to work on a set, and what filmmakers need from actors. Once you know what everyone on the set is doing, you'll know what you can do to help films and their crew members be successful. As a valuable team player, you'll gain a definite edge over your competition and build a life for yourself in the midst of the wonderful magic of moviemaking. This guide for actors explains the ins and outs of filmmaking, providing a comprehensive overview of the process to help you raise your career to new heights.
A New Slant on Acting
You've arrived in Hollywood, and you are ready to become famous and to take over the world. You have a dream, and nothing is going to stop you. You're on your way! But in order to best succeed and keep booking work, you need to know everything about film sets, their crews, and how you as an actor can help directors tell their stories. A New Slant on Acting offers a clear, detailed description of how films get made, how to work on a set, and what filmmakers need from actors. Once you know what everyone on the set is doing, you'll know what you can do to help films and their crew members be successful. As a valuable team player, you'll gain a definite edge over your competition and build a life for yourself in the midst of the wonderful magic of moviemaking. This guide for actors explains the ins and outs of filmmaking, providing a comprehensive overview of the process to help you raise your career to new heights.
After '89
After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating cultural and political identities. Providing access to scholarship and criticism not readily accessible to an English-speaking readership, this study surveys the rebirth of the theatre as a site of public intervention and social criticism since the establishment of democracy and the proliferation of theatre makers that have flaunted cultural commonplaces and begged new questions of Polish culture. Lease argues that the most significant change in performance practice after 1989 has been from opposition to the state to a more pluralistic practice that engages with marginalised identities purposefully left out of the rhetoric of freedom and independence.
Contemporary Women Stage Directors
Contemporary Women Stage Directors opens the door into the minds of 27 prolific female theatre directors, allowing you to explore their experience, wisdom and knowledge. Directors give insight into their diverse approaches to the key challenges of directing theatre, including choosing projects, engaging with scripts, conceptualizing visual and acoustic production elements, collaborating with actors and production teams, building their careers, and navigating challenges and opportunities posed by gender, race and ethnicity. The directors featured include Maria Aberg, May Adrales, Sarah Benson, Karin Coonrod, Rachel Chavkin, Lear deBessonet, Nadia Fall, Vicky Featherstone, Polly Findlay, Leah Gardiner, Anne Kauffman, Lucy Kerbel, Young Jean Lee, Patricia McGregor, Blanche McIntyre, Paulette Randall, Diane Rodriguez, Indhu Rubasingham, KJ Sanchez, Tina Satter, Kimberly Senior, Roxana Silbert, Leigh Silverman, Caroline Steinbeis, Liesl Tommy, Lyndsey Turner, and Erica Whyman. These women are making profoundly exciting theatre in some of the most influential organizations across the English-speaking world- from Broadway to the West End, from the National Theatre in London to Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. As generally mid-career professionals, they are informed by both their hard-earned expertise and their forward-looking energy. They offer astute observations about the current state of the art form, as well as inspiring visions of what theatre can accomplish in the decades to come.
The Magic of Madhubala
I have an uncanny feeling that the seed for this book was first planted in my mind the day Madhubala died in 1969 at the young age of 36. Still in my teens, the full gravity of her death did not strike me with full force at the time but the prospect of not getting to see a paragon of beauty like her in any forthcoming movies, did distress my friends and I no end. Much later in life I realized that it was not us alone who found it hard to forget her but almost everyone who knew her or her movies.
Presidential Timber
Television journalist Josie Jenkins chronicles campus unrest at the historically black Pemberton State University. Although the school's difficulties have accumulated over decades, the recently appointed president, Dr. B. W. "Buck" Dickman, seems destined to absorb the blame. Faculty and student factions demand Dickman's removal as miscellaneous others threaten calamity, foment distractions, and advance self-serving agendas. Dickman appears on Josie's newscast to unveil a transparently inadequate plan to defuse campus unrest, obliterate financial woes, and eradicate disfavor in the halls of state government. As Josie's romantic relationship with Pemberton's academic vice president blossoms, Pemberton's survival is further threatened when Dickman's secret indulgences seem destined to become public. Running time is about one hundred minutes without intermission.
Presidential Timber
Television journalist Josie Jenkins chronicles campus unrest at the historically black Pemberton State University. Although the school's difficulties have accumulated over decades, the recently appointed president, Dr. B. W. "Buck" Dickman, seems destined to absorb the blame. Faculty and student factions demand Dickman's removal as miscellaneous others threaten calamity, foment distractions, and advance self-serving agendas. Dickman appears on Josie's newscast to unveil a transparently inadequate plan to defuse campus unrest, obliterate financial woes, and eradicate disfavor in the halls of state government. As Josie's romantic relationship with Pemberton's academic vice president blossoms, Pemberton's survival is further threatened when Dickman's secret indulgences seem destined to become public. Running time is about one hundred minutes without intermission.
The Four Seasons
'Revenge dressed in its Sunday best' COMPLETE SCRIPT four episodes. This revised and updated paperback edition includes a letter-of-praise from Dame Julie Walters, and a letter-of-acknowledgement from HRH the Duchess of Cornwall to the publisher. REVENGE FICTION set within the four seasons of 1947. A widow, her daughters and their farm-man, enmeshed in murderous plans against the inheritor; a keep-sake son. Their instigated farming accidents back-fire with precursory risks and results. Killing the family heir becomes a deadly game of roulette! *FIRST PUBLISHED* as Safe In Killer Hands: The Original Screenplay, in ebook and paperback; adapted from Gwen Hullah's novel, Safe In Killer Hands: Money, Madness, Murder Note: paperback may take up to 3 weeks to arrive via post
The Boar's Head Theatre (Routledge Revivals)
The Boar's Head Theatre, first published in 1972, provides an account of one of the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres. Historians of the theatre of this period will find this book indispensable, and those with a more general interest in the greatest age of English drama will be engrossed by the detailed and intimate glimpses of the theatre world which this story affords.
Performer Training
Performer Training is an examination of how actors are trained in different cultures. Beginning with studies of mainstream training in countries such as Poland, Australia, Germany, and the United States, subsequent studies survey: - Some of Asia's traditional training methods and recent experiments in performer training - Eugenio Barba's training methods - Jerzy Grotowski's most recent investigations - The Japanese American NOHO companies attempts at integrating Kyogen into the works of Samuel Beckett - Descriptions of the training methods developed by Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart at their Saratoga International Theatre Institute - Recent efforts to re-examine the role and scope of training, like Britain's International Workshop Festival and the European League of Institutes of Arts masterclasses - The reformulation of the use of emotions in performer training known as Alba Emoting.
Crying from the Heart
This book is about a character named Susan. She became one of the world's best writers, but there was one thing that always haunted her throughout her life: how she was misjudged in her young adolescence. But when she grew up, she became a successful woman.
Bendra
The movie Bendra is about a young girl named Bendra Sky, who had been sexually abused by her father since the age of ten until she was sixteen years old. She became pregnant by her father and had a baby boy. Months after the baby was born, she decided to reveal the father to her best friend, Miss Pierre, who works at the children's department during her volunteer hours for school. However, the mother found out who the father was during a visit. At Miss Pierre's house where Bendra had moved in while she was seven months pregnant, a book fell to the floor as she was cleaning out Bendra's room. A DNA test was revealed. The door opened for Bendra to have justice and peace when her father was arrested and sent to jail for fifty years.
Homey Don't Play That!
"A fascinating inside look at the trailblazing series" (Entertainment Tonight)--discover the behind-the-scenes stories and lasting impact of the trailblazing sketch comedy show that upended television, launched the careers of some of our biggest stars, and changed the way we talk, think, and laugh about race: In Living Color. Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous and continued impact on our culture as In Living Color. Inspired by Richard Pryor, Carol Burnett, and Eddie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans created a television series unlike any that had come before it. Along the way, he introduced the world to Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, Rosie Perez, and Jennifer Lopez, not to mention his own brothers Damon, Marlon, and Shawn Wayans. In Living Color shaped American culture in ways both seen and unseen, and was part of a sea change that moved black comedy and hip-hop culture from the shadows into the spotlight. Now, the "in-depth, well-researched" (Library Journal, starred review) Homey Don't Play That reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit. Through exclusive interviews with the cast, writers, producers, and network executives, this insightful and entertaining chronicle follows the show's ups and downs, friendships and feuds, tragedies and triumphs, sketches and scandals, the famous and the infamous, unveiling a vital piece of history in the evolution of comedy, television, and black culture.
Four Plays
The crypt of Wawel Cathedral in Krak籀w is the Polish nation's greatest pantheon. Here lie the earthly remains of its storied kings and queens, and two of its greatest poets, Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Slowacki. At the conclusion of his speech at Slowacki's reburial in 1927, Marshal J籀zef Pilsudski commanded the guard of honour: "In the name of the Republic, I direct you, gentlemen, to carry this sarcophagus into the royal crypt, for he who rests within was no less a king." Slowacki, who once described himself and Mickiewicz as "two gods, on their own, opposing, suns" has rested alongside his great rival now for over ninety years. Although generally regarded as an eternal second to the national bard Mickiewicz, Slowacki is a great poet in his own right. Had Mickiewicz, who undoubtedly influenced him, never existed, Juliusz Slowacki would still have become an important European poet -- especially as far as drama is concerned. The recognised creator of the modern traditions of Polish playwriting, Slowacki holds a position second to none in the creation of original plays in the style of Shakespeare -- that darling of the European Romantics -- whom many poets of Europe emulated and imitated, while never reaching the facility with the Shakespearean idiom achieved by Slowacki. What is even more striking is the fact that Slowacki achieved this high level of quality at a very early age. The dramas in Glagoslav's edition of Four Plays include some of the poet's greatest dramatic works, all written before age twenty-five: Mary Stuart, Balladyna and Horsztyński weave carefully crafted motifs from King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in astoundingly original works, and Kordian -- Slowacki's riposte to Mickiewicz's Forefathers' Eve, constitutes the final word in the revolutionary period of Polish Romanticism. Translated into English by Charles S. Kraszewski, the Four Plays of Juliusz Slowacki will be of interest to aficionados of Polish Romanticism, Shakespeare, and theatre in general.Translated from the Polish and introduced by Charles S. Kraszewski.This book has been published with the support of the (c)POLAND Translation Program.Publishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor.
The Student and the Professor
The movie The Student and the Professor is about a professor, Johnny Time, who dated his girlfriend named Donna Forman for four years. He asked for her hand in marriage. She expected his proposal. However, four months before their wedding day, she gave him the ring back and left the professor without giving any explanation. The professor's heart was broken over the experience of being in love with someone and breaking up. He decided he would never love or date anyone else. The professor did not date or fall in love again until he met one of his students, Kelly Thomas, who will change his views about trust and love.
Performing Nostalgia
In this trenchant work, Susan Bennett examines the authority of the past in modern cultural experience and the parameters for the reproduction of the plays. She addresses these issues from both the viewpoints of literary theory and theatre studies, shifting Shakespeare out of straightforward performance studies in order to address questions about his plays and to consider them in the context of current theoretical debates on historiography, post-colonialism and canonicity.
Culvert Story 3
This book is the third installment about my life, at least the first part. The Culvert Story 3 rounds up the first two installments of The Culvert Story. The rest of the book contains some clever thoughts for you to be inspired by.
Transformational Acting
Sande Shurin's enlightened acting technique is a determined effort to steer away from intellectual, theory-based instruction to a more creative and viscerally human approach. It moves beyond teaching how to represent a character or various emotions toward living a role with in-the-moment identification and urgency. Asserts Rapp of Rent fame, "Since I started working with Sande, I think it's safe to say my work on character and my ability to transform into character have exploded and expanded beyond anything I previously would have imagined."
Shakespeare’s Plays in Performance
John Russell Brown demonstrates just how much is in Shakespeare's texts; how the language is awakened, colored, emphasized, sensualized and extended in performance. Shakespeare's intended readers were his collaborators, not his commentators. Brown invites all Shakespeare lovers to seek their insights in Shakespeare's natural habitat: the stage.
In Search of Theater
This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II; but it is far more than that. It ranges back as far as Ibsen and even Shakespeare, and has contributed very substantially to a number of reputations that would long outlast 1950, such as those of Bertolt Brecht, Charles Chaplin and Martha Graham. For Bentley fans, it is an essential link in a chain that runs from The Playwright as Thinker to The Life of the Drama to The Brecht Memoir and Thinking About the Playwright.
Scene Change: A Theatre Diary
Illuminates a theatre of tradition and innovations, describing in detail the many, varied theatre classes the author visited.
