Curious
Being a woman is blood and gutsIt's intestineFuck florals and ballgownsIt's ballsIt's livers and kidneys and puke and mucusRipping and tearing and shreddingRed stain on linen beddingIt's shedding Jaz is in her second year at drama school. Jaz is tired of performing. Hence her conundrum. But when she stumbles across a piece of forgotten history - her life is changed forever... What does it mean to find yourself? Especially when it seems the world you live in is diametrically set against you doing just that? Set against the sprawling backdrop of urban London across centuries, curious is a frank, funny and moving excavation of the lives of two actresses who are young, Black, queer and trying to find out who they are. It is written and performed by Jasmine Lee-Jones, the winner of Evening Standard Award 2019 and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for her play seven methods of killing kylie jenner.
Bridges to Freedom & Equality & Kindness
This Play is loosely based on the first school integration shortly after Brown Versus The Broad of Education ruling in the November of 1960. Plus, A look at our framing of the Bill of Rights which set the stage for freedom and equality!
Chastely Prepared
A young female force of nature masterfully outwits some insufferable bourgeois by generating galling, blasphemous, pulse racing, and heartwarming passions seasoned with rollicking belly-laughs.
Preme Magazine
Is An Independent Black-Owned Magazine Published Monthly. Our Content Focuses On Emerging Trends Within Entertainment, Music, Sports And Pop Culture. Our Mission Is To Empower Creators And Help Them Bridge Gaps In Their Careers By Giving Them A Platform To Express Themselves, Their Values, And Creative Goals. The PREME Issue Consists Of 3 To 4 Covers Per Month, In Both Print And Digital Formats, Giving Our Viewers A Chance To Stay Tuned In With Their Favorite Artists While Also Discovering New Influencers.
Reframing Cult Westerns
Once one of the most popular film genres and a key player in the birth of early narrative cinema, the Western has experienced a rebirth in the era of post-classical filmmaking with a small but noteworthy selection of Westerns being produced long after the genre's 1950s heyday. Thanks to regular repertory cinema and television screenings, home video releases and critical reappraisals by cultural gatekeepers such as Quentin Tarantino, an ever-increasing number of these Westerns have become cult films. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent, bizarre or simply little heard-of obscurities, Reframing Cult Westerns offers a multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of cult Western films. These twelve essays present a wide-ranging methodological scope, from industrial histories to ecocritical approaches, auteurist analysis to queer and other ideological angles. With a thorough analysis of the genre from international perspectives, Reframing Cult Westerns offers fresh insight on the Western as a global phenomenon.
A Teacher’s Guide to Musical Theatre
Are you a teacher of musical theatre who struggles to plan and construct lessons? Are you looking for a structured approach to teaching musical theatre to students of all abilities? Do you know your Ivor Novello from your Stephen Sondheim? Despite being one of the most popular forms of performance study, Musical Theatre is often the most difficult to teach due to its part-practical and part-academic approach. With few books on the market directly aimed at teachers, it can be a challenging and daunting task to devise a course of study that takes in the history of the form as well as considering the wider aspects that come together to make a successful musical. A Teacher's Guide to Musical Theatre enables teachers to plan and deliver courses in Musical Theatre with confidence and flair. The unique structure of the chapters guides teachers through key facts and concepts in musical theatre history and offers practical in-class activities for students. From topics for class discussion and essay assignments to journal entries and portfolios to sample test questions, this book is full of practical advice from experienced teachers in the field which make it the idea companion for teachers and instructors on diploma and degree-level courses, as well as those devising courses in part-time performing arts schools. Devised to provide sufficient engaging and inspirational material for an initial term or semester, the book establishes the principles of teaching this relatively new subject and encourages teachers to extend much further into the subject. From The Mikado to Hamilton and everything in between, this book breaks down decades of history into appropriately sized lessons, designed to give students a rounded survey of the subject and an understanding of how musicals work. Offering expert guidance to those with varied fields of expertise and practical experience but limited teaching experience, this book is the only existing guide to structured and stimulating practice.
The Art of Resonance
What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art? This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavour, with a focus on the performing arts. The word 'resonance' comes from the Latin meaning to 're-sound' or 'sound together'. From music to physics, resonance is a common thread that evokes a response and, in general, is understood as a quality that makes something personally meaningful and valuable. For Bogart, curiosity is a key personal quality to be nurtured throughout life and that very same curiosity, as an artist, thinker and human being. Creating pathways between performance theory, art history, neuroscience, music, architecture and the visual arts, and consistently forging new thought-paths, the writing draws upon Anne Bogart's own life and artistic journeys to illuminate potent philosophical ideas. Woven with personal anecdotes, stories and reflections, this is a book that will be of interest to any theatre artist and anyone who reflects on the power of the arts, of theatre-making and what it means to be engaged in the artistic process.
Hormones (hardback)
The complete screenplay - and lengthy essay by the scriptwriter! It all starts when KEN ASHBROOK, a nerdy high school student, tries to invent a potion that can control the sexual desires of man; a chemical so the human race can concentrate on more productive things like science, economics and world hunger. This was the idea. The result is something out of this world! A slight accident in the laboratory causes a huge explosion that results in the creation of a jelly-like substance. It affects your sex drive but not in the way Ken wanted! Ken Ashbrook has just invented the aphrodisiac: HORMONIOUS! A chemical which causes any and every female to become a sex-crazed animal! And this is only the beginning. Things really get out of hand when the potion begins to affect everyone in Ken's high school, quickly turning the student body into naked bodies with only one thought on their minds! What's worse is the effects are permanent. Sexual Armaggedon has now begun and it's up to Ken to stop it! The only solution? Ken must travel back in time to stop the potion from ever being created! In the tradition of WEIRD SCIENCE and PORKY'S comes the ultimate teen-age, sex comedy complete with space aliens, a giant squid and over a hundred horny women! Hormones the Movie: Being a teenager just got trickier!
AUTOMI, MASCHERE, MARIONETTE, ANDROIDI nel teatro e nell'arte
I prodigi della tecnica, nel corso della storia, si connettono al desiderio di "dar vita" a creature antropomorfe, dotate di movimento autonomo: indipendentemente dalla tecnologia usata, il mito dell'auto-cinesi 癡 un fenomeno dalla duplice natura, reale e immaginaria: perch矇 legata alla costruzione di congegni artificiali in grado di muoversi grazie a un principio motore (spesso non manifesto) e perch矇 incline a sollecitare il desiderio inconscio collettivo di travalicare i limiti naturali. Gli antichi marchingegni da diletto illusionistici e spettacolari (teatrini automatici, automi di lusso, orologi astronomici, androidi scrittori e musicisti, marionette, spettacoli a manovella, apparati idraulici semoventi) sono posti dinanzi agli attuali dispositivi automatici da rappresentazione(attori androidi, teatri olografici, macchine inutili auto-cinetiche, performance meccatroniche, avatar e motion capture...) alla ricerca di analogie, differenze e punti di contatto.
One Year on Broadway
Have you ever been so touched by a story that it changed your life? One Year on Broadway is the unlikely true story of two musical theater fans whose lives were forever changed by seeing a touring production of Once on This Island in 1992. What they saw that night was a version of their own story played out on the stage and it gave them the courage to fight for their own forbidden love.Twenty-five years later, by some strange twist of fate, they were led back to the Island where they ignored conventional wisdom, took a leap of faith, and became co-producers of the Tony Award winning Broadway Revival of Once on This Island.This is their love letter to the musical that gave them more than they ever could have imagined
Lady Windermere's Fan (Warbler Classics)
Oscar Wilde's first major success on the stage, Lady Windermere's Fan premiered in London in 1892 to sold-out fashionable crowds. The social comedy centers on a woman who has been cast out of and hopes to re-enter society but ultimately sacrifices herself to save her grown daughter's dignity and social standing. Filled with some of Wilde's best-known and wittiest epigrammatic sayings, the play's exposure of upper-class hypocrisy is far deeper and more poignant than such funny writing ought to allow.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, poet, and novelist, known for his biting wit, defense of aesthetics, and defiance of social conventions. The author of celebrated comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and the iconic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, at the height of his fame he was sentenced to two years' hard labor for "gross indecency" with men. He died penniless in Paris three years after his release from prison. He ranks among the most celebrated writers in English literature.
The Simpsons Secret
The Simpsons Secret is a book that will appeal to both hardcore, and casual fans alike. There is no other Simpsons related book that focuses entirely on predictions and theories.
Fuel
FUEL. a play by Caridad Svich. You live in a place that reeks of gasoline. You run on fuel. You don't know anything else except living hard and surviving, but one day that fuel is gonna run out. How are you gonna know who you are, then? This is the story of Baby and their people living in a town left for dead. This is also the ballad of Baby and Girl. FUEL was developed at the Lark and Sheen Center, both in New York City, under the direction of Erin Ortman and at the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco as part of its Rough Readings Series under the direction of Evren Odcikin. FUEL is the second play in Svich's seven-play AMERICAN PSALM cycle that began with RED BIKE. This is a Santa Catalina Editions publication, which is am imprint of NoPassport Press.
Flop Musicals of the Twenty-First Century
Flop Musicals of the Twenty-First Century offers a provocative and revealing historical narrative of a group of musicals that cost millions and had spectacular potential...but bombed anyway.
Beyond the Living Dead
In 1968, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead premiered, launching a growing preoccupation with zombies within mass and literary fiction, film, television, and video games. Romero's creativity and enduring influence make him a worthy object of inquiry in his own right, and his long career helps us take stock of the shifting interest in zombies since the 1960s. Examining his work promotes a better understanding of the current state of the zombie and where it is going amidst the political and social turmoil of the twenty-first century. These new essays document, interpret, and explain the meaning of the still-budding Romero legacy, drawing cross-disciplinary perspectives from such fields as literature, political science, philosophy, and comparative film studies. Essays consider some of the sources of Romero's inspiration (including comics, science fiction, and Westerns), chart his influence as a storyteller and a social critic, and consider the legacy he leaves for viewers, artists, and those studying the living dead.
The Many Lives of the Twilight Zone
More than sixty years after the The Twilight Zone debuted on television, the show remains a cultural phenomenon, including a feature film, three television reboots, a comic book series, a magazine and a theatrical production. This collection of new essays offers a roadmap through a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Scholars, writers, artists and contributors to the 1980s series investigate the many incarnations of Rod Serling's influential vision through close readings of episodes, explorations of major themes and first-person accounts of working on the show.
Directors and the New Musical Drama
This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s. In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the first book to offer a dual Anglo-American perspective on this subject.
Faszinierende Unterhaltung
Von gewaltiger Architektur in Videospielen 羹ber weite Landschaftsaufnahmen in Dokumentationen bis zu orchestraler Musik in Spielfilmen - manche unterhaltsame Medieninhalte scheinen explizit daf羹r geschaffen zu sein, uns in Faszination und Staunen zu versetzen. W瓣hrend diese Erfahrungen in der Philosophie und Emotionspsychologie schon seit L瓣ngerem erforscht werden, blieben sie in g瓣ngigen Unterhaltungstheorien weitestgehend unber羹cksichtigt. Hier setzt das vorliegende Buch an. Auf Basis einer ausf羹hrlichen Aufarbeitung des Theorie- und Forschungsstands der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Unterhaltungsforschung sowie der emotionspsychologischen Arbeiten zu Staunen und Faszination - definiert als Emotion Awe (dt. Ehrfurcht) - entwickelt Daniel Possler ein neues integratives Theoriemodell. Ziel ist die Erkl瓣rung der Entstehung sowie der Unterhaltsamkeit von Staunen und Faszination bei der Mediennutzung. Die Modellierung erfolgt dabei zun瓣chst f羹r Medien allgemein und wirddann auf das Fallbeispiel der Videospielnutzung 羹bertragen.​
Milkyway Image
1 The Film Production Company Hollywood studios and industry analysis Media industry studies and the independent production company Hong Kong film companies: past and present Conclusion2 Hong Kong Film Industry in Transition Industry in crisis Production companies in transformation Conclusion3 Bringing the Old to the New: Formation and Development of Milkyway Milkyway as a business entity Milkyway as a creative team Conclusion4 From Hong Kong to the Mainland: Milkyway's Production and Business Practices Establishing a brand for the Hong Kong audience Expanding into the mainland Chinese market Conclusion5 In Defence of Hong Kong: Milkyway Films' Domestic Critical Reception Hong Kong's film community since the mid-1990s Milkyway films as mirrors of Hong Kong Redefining Hong Kong cinema through Milkyway films Conclusion6 Shaping Hong Kong Cinema's New Icon: Milkyway at International Film Festivals Debut: specialised film festivals Breakthrough: Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Toronto Beyond and after major festivals Conclusion7 Defining Hong Kong Cinema through Distribution: Milkyway Films in the United States The 'return' of Hong Kong film The 'disappearance' of Hong Kong identity The Chinese connection Conclusion8 Building a Hong Kong Studio Brand: Milkyway's Changing Image in Overseas Critical Reception Milkyway as an invisible factory Milkyway as a period in Johnnie To's career Milkyway as a house style and a brand per se Conclusion
Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema
Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema suggests the terms "noir" and "neo-noir" have been rendered almost meaningless by overuse. The book seeks to re-establish a purpose for neo-noir films and re-consider the organization of 60 years of neo-noir films. Using the notion of post-classical, the book establishes how neo-noir breaks into many movements, some based on time and others based on thematic similarities. The combined movements then form a mosaic of neo-noir. The time-based movements examine Transitional Noir (1960s-early 1970s), Hollywood Renaissance Noir in the 1970s, Eighties Noir, Nineties Noir, and Digital Noir of the 2000s. The thematic movements explore Nostalgia Noir, Hybrid Noir, and Remake and Homage Noir. Academics as well as film buffs will find this book appealing as it deconstructs popular films and places them within new contexts.
Cherished Memories
Native Perry Countians are a proud bunch, who had the privilege of growing up in a peaceful rural county in central Pennsylvania. Today, we still strive to preserve our special way of life. Part of the preservation effort is to share our stories, and recollections with our grandchildren and others. Hence the birth of Cherished Memories, which takes the reader on a journey back to the 1930s and forward to the 1960s in Perry County, Pennsylvania.Farming is, and always has been, the major industry in Perry County, and the tales of how Perry County farmers came into the modern age, have been handwritten for everyone to experience. The century farm takes us on a journey through the cow paths to throwing around hay bales.Discover the old techniques for removing unwanted insects and weeds from the field crops. Many a corn crop fed the cattle and the farmer, as it was dried, ground into cornmeal, cooked and eaten with molasses. Rationing caused many sacrifices, so you cherished a new pair of shoes. One-room schools were miles away, and the trek to attend classes was a daily exercise, fueled with homemade apple butter sandwiches.Times were tough, but families worked, played and prayed together! Summer meant gardening, and swimming in the river or the local creek. Winter brought out the sleds for slick rides, but few children had snowsuits or boots. There was lots of fun and laughter, with pranks at Halloween, caroling at Christmas time, and hand-churned ice cream for any occasion, as long as the ice man delivered ice.Oh, you're wondering what happened to the outhouse, the icing on the cake, the buzzard on the shoulder, who built a cannon, who had their mouth washed out with Lava soap, whose milking stool ended up in a museum, and a special use for lipstick. It's all inside, as a Cherished Memory!
The Cattastic Plan
The Cattastic Plan. What is the cats plan? Do they have one? Or is their world just filled with chaos all of the time? Do I have the answers to these questions? No.. but your life does not need to be filled with the same chaos. Instead keep all of your passwords, user names, emails, addresses, phone numbers and more in one spot. Also enjoy reading through some cute and entertaining cat facts.
The Cattastic Plan
The Cattastic Plan. What is the cats plan? Do they have one? Or is their world just filled with chaos all of the time? Do I have the answers to these questions? No.. but your life does not need to be filled with the same chaos. Instead keep all of your passwords, user names, emails, addresses, phone numbers and more in one spot. Also enjoy reading through some cute and entertaining cat facts.
Move
She remembers the feeling inside her lungs when they start bursting for air. She remembers twirling her fingers through the water as she pushes up towards the surface. Inspired by ancient keening rituals, Move is about migration, loss and communal healing. Weaving storytelling, choral soundscape and Gaelic song, five women portray the ebb and flow of people across the globe throughout the ages.Move is the inaugural show from Disaster Plan - a new company from the team behind Blow Off, Beats and Heads Up. This edition was published to coincide with the premiere, originally staged in an open-air performance at Edinburgh's Silverknowes Beach as well as being filmed for streaming.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape social obligations. Its funny dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. Despite the play's early success, Wilde's notoriety and prison caused the play to be closed after 86 performances. After his release from prison, he published the play from exile in Paris. The play is now considered Wilde's masterpiece. Apart from of a number of radio, opera, musical, and "made-for-television" versions, The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for the English-language cinema at least three times. "More humorous dealing with theatrical conventions it would be difficult to imagine. Mr Oscar Wilde has decorated a humour that is Gilbertian with innumerable spangles of that wit that is all his own" -- H. G. Wells
Die Dramaturgie des Dokumententheaters in Amerika
La drammaturgia del teatro documento in America nel XX e XXI secolo (Die Dramaturgie des Dokumententheaters in Amerika im zwanzigsten und einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert) ist eine originelle, in italienischer Sprache verfasste Untersuchung, die in erster Linie die vielf瓣ltigen Aspekte des amerikanischen dramaturgischen Schreibens, aber auch des theatralischen Prassis im Bereich des Dokumententheaters darstellen will. Das Dokumentartheater reagiert auf die Bed羹rfnisse der zeitgen繹ssischen Welt, deren k羹nstlerischer Aufbruch das Ziel der Akteure ist, die die Theaterkunst durch dramaturgische und inszenatorische Innovationen f繹rdern. Analysiert werden die Werke der verdienstvollsten Autoren und Regisseure dieses Theatergenres, darunter Hallie Flanagan, Martin Duberman, Anna Deavere Smith, Emily Mann, aber auch die wertvolle dramaturgische und regief羹hrende Arbeit der City Lights Youth Theater Company wird hervorgehoben.
Performing Christ; South African Protest Theatre and the Theological Dramatic Theory of Hans Urs von Balthasar
This book sets out to explore a performance of Christ during one of the darkest hours in South Africa's history, by offering an in-depth investigation of the theological dramatic theory of the Swiss Catholic theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Tanzen und Ern瓣hrung. Ern瓣hrungsverhalten und Ern瓣hrungswissen von T瓣nzerinnen verschiedener Tanzrichtungen
In der gegenw瓣rtigen Literatur zur T瓣nzerern瓣hrung werden verschiedene Tanzrichtungen und Leistungsniveaus nur geringf羹gig ber羹cksichtigt. Speziell T瓣nzer im professionellen Bereich sollten besonders auf ihre Ern瓣hrung achten, da das Leitungspensum in einer meist kurzen Karriere sehr hoch ist und damit die Verletzungsgefahr und Krankheitsh瓣ufigkeit steigen kann. Andererseits ist auch eine bedarfsgerechte Ern瓣hrung f羹r ambitionierte T瓣nzer im Freizeitbereich nicht unerheblich, wenn das Trainingspensum mehr als drei bis vier Stunden pro Woche erreicht. Gerade im Formationstanzsport sowie im modernen und zeitgen繹ssischen B羹hnentanz ist die Ern瓣hrungsweise bei T瓣nzern gegen羹ber derer im klassischen B羹hnentanz noch weitgehend unerforscht. In der vorliegenden Studie wird gekl瓣rt, inwieweit sich insbesondere die weibliche T瓣nzerpopulation dieser Tanzrichtungen mit Ern瓣hrung auseinandersetzt. Dazu werden Ern瓣hrungsverhalten und -wissen von angehenden professionellen B羹hnent瓣nzerinnen sowie Formationstanzsportlerinnen aus dem ambitionierten Breitensport untersucht und mit den in der Literatur bisher angegebenen Empfehlungen zur optimalen Ern瓣hrung von T瓣nzern verglichen. Es werden folgende Punkte untersucht: 1. Wissenstand der T瓣nzerinnen hinsichtlich einer bedarfsgerechten Ern瓣hrung im Tanz. 2. Umsetzen der Kenntnisse im Alltag. 3. Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Studiengruppen. Die vorliegende Studie gibt einen ?berblick zu diesem noch explorierenden Forschungsfeld.
Im Angesichte
Michael-Impuls durch die letzten Jahrtausende, seine Einbindung in die manich瓣ische Welt-Anschauung. Von Artus, Gral, Chartres, Goethe, Schiller, Saint Germain bis Rudolf Steiner. Das rechte Zusammenf羹hren von Denk- und Herzkr瓣ften.
The Liverpool Dreams Project
LIVERPOOL DREAMS IS A BEATLES TRIBUTE BAND UNLIKE ANY OTHER. WE CREATE ORIGINAL MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE BEATLES DESIGNED TO SOUND, TASTE, AND SMELL AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE ORIGINAL MUSIC THEY PRODUCED. ALTHOUGH THE MAGICAL GIFTS THEY GAVE TO THE WORLD CAN NEVER BE DUPLICATED, WE TAKE HONOR FROM THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO BRING BACK SOME OF THE JOY THEY CREATED. THE LIVERPOOL DREAMS PROJECT IS AN ANTHOLOGY OF OUR HISTORY, OUR ART, AND THE LYRICS TO OUR SONGS, AS WELL AS SOME OTHER INTERESTING THINGS. WE CONSIDER OUR BOOK AND OUR MUSIC A TRIBUTE TO "THE MINSTRELS OF JOY". ALL OUR MUSIC IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.LIVERPOOLDREAMS.COM
Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz
In twenty-four chapters David Kaplan offers ideas, opinions, theories, and facts for someone who wants to be a theater artist today in hopes of creating their own vision of theater-making, one informed by, and in the context of, theater history. This book explores what theater artists have done before and what they, inspired by history, might do next.A non-lineal theater history, Shakespeare Shamans, and Show Biz explores theater as a shaman's vision, as a storyteller's heritage, as religious propaganda, as a mirror of life, as a critique of society, as a prompt for hard laughter, as fantasy, and as national epic, with plays as different (and the same) as the writings of August Wilson, Gertrude Stein, Shakespeare, and people who never made it into history.Each chapter explores a particular theme: "The Middle Ages as a State of Mind," "Commedia dell'arte and Moli癡re," "Shakespeare-To Begin," "Euripides-Forever Modern," "Aeschylus-Writing in an Age of Certainty," "Sophocles and Aristotle-Defining Tragedy," "Greek Comedy," "Roman Theater," "Asian Classics and Rules" (Bunrakuken, Chikamatsu, Zeami), China-The Pear Garden and the Red Pear Garden," "Neoclassic Theater and Why There is Such a Thing," "Shakespeare's Classic," "Bad Boys Breaking the Rules" (Brecht, Ibsen, and Jarry), "Inside Outside" (Ibsen, Strindberg, Turgenev, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Antoine), "Beyond Illusion" (Appia, Craig, Poel), "Melodrama and Popular Theater in America" (Aiken, Brice, Cohan, Stone, Tyler, Bert Williams), "American Classic: Eugene O'Neill and Martha Graham," "Expressionism to Epic" (Brecht, Meyerhold, O'Neill, Piscator, Treadwell), "American Agitprop: Overt and Disguised" (Adler, Clurman, Flanagan, Kazan, Le Gallienne, Miller, Odets, Robeson, Strasberg, Wilder), "Poetry of the Theater" (Artaud, Breton, Cocteau, Ionesco, Kharms, Stein), "Personal Mythology" (Genet, Lorca, Mishima, Strindberg), "Two Masters: Samuel Becket and Tennessee Williams," "Theater of Identity" (Baraka, Ensler, Kramer, Wilson), and "Missing from History" (Bonner, Forn矇s, Kennedy, Maeterlinck).
Midnight Matinees
From the earliest days of moving pictures, there have been the big blockbusters... Birth of a Nation, The Gold Rush, Sunrise, The Crowd... featured the loftiest stars, most renown directors, largest budgets, garnering the strongest reviews. Most famous of them all? Gone With the Wind (1939). During that classic year for Tinseltown, another film did not fare nearly so well at the box-office. The Wizard of Oz was written off as a failure. Then came television. CBS executives decided to air Wizard one Sunday evening, wondering how it might do. Ratings were beyond belief. From then on, once a year, T.W.O.O. would air, people of all ages eagerly awaiting 'the event.' They could not have known then that they were members of a 'cult following.' For T.W.O.O. swiftly became one of many wonderful, weird, whacky movies, too unique and original for the mainstream on original release, yet deeply appealing to aficionados. Wherever they live, devotees of previously misbegotten movies became a far-spread community of fans. 'Cultists, ' if you will. Here are over 500 of the most enduring. Midnight Matinees offers a virtual encyclopedia of such 'special' pictures from their origination in the 1890s to the cutting-edge work being turned out today. Featuring more than 300 pictures, mostly rare, many never before published. This volume is more for fans of Orson Welles, Hollywood maverick, than John Ford, crowd-pleasing genius. If Joan Crawford was your favorite noir femme fatale, forget about it! Marie Windsor? That's the ticket! And when it comes to a superstar like Marilyn Monroe, don't look for the gleeful Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, though The Misfits vividly recalls her darkest days... and finest acting! As cultists like to say: 'Long live Tuesday Weld.' Not in Wild In the Country, mind you, opposite Elvis Presley. Instead, Pretty Poison. A cult queen in a midnight matinee.
It All Began With A Scream
We apologize for not properly crediting Fun World, Div., Easter Unlimited, Inc. for their ownership of the Ghost face mask on the cover of It All Began With A Scream. This is being rectified with a legal note added to the book going forward. In 1996, a movie came along that changed the face of horror films forever. Initial signs indicated Scream being a flop upon its release in theaters, but it quickly became a word-of-mouth phenomenon spawning multiple sequels, a television series, and countless imitators.Twenty-five years later, the impact of Scream is still being felt in films and pop culture. For the first time, get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it took to make the beloved films-from the people who were there.With 30 interviews from cast and crew members, It All Began with a Scream provides readers with an unauthorized look at the franchise. From a bidding war for the original script and studio meddling to on-set romances, script leaks, lawsuits, and a beloved director who created a family atmosphere for everyone on his set, find out the story behind Scream.It All Began with a Scream is a must-read for horror aficionados, film buffs, and anyone fascinated by Hollywood.
Eastern Heroes magazine Vol1 issue 2
The Legendary Eastern Heroes magazine is back! The No 1 Hong kong film magazine has been relaunched and is back as a bi-monthly magazine.Issue 2 is bumper packed with 96 pagesfeaturing all your favorite stars. Bruce Li, Cynthia Rothrock Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee Old school, later night Cinema, News Reviews, and Interviews.Issue two features an exclusive look at Bruce Li, an interview with Cynthia Rothrock great new artwork for Way of the Dragon, and much much more96 packed pages of Kung fu cinema that will whet the appetite of any martial arts movie fan. Start collecting now.
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods (Centennial Edition)
This book is a republication of the 1920 edition of Houdini's Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, as originally published by E. P. Dutton & Company. In it, Houdini collects notes and stories about various dime museum attractions and circus wonders he met personally while traveling or learned about while studying his profession. These tales include feats of sword swallowers, fire eaters, poison defiers, human ostriches, and more. Do not try them at home. Or anywhere else.This Centennial Edition appears 101 years after the original E. P. Dutton publication. One year escaped us.
Harry Potter: Hogwarts 12-Month Undated Planner
Celebrate your love of the Harry Potter films for an entire year. This 12-month undated planner features iconic imagery and beloved quotes from the Harry PotterTM films and is a perfect gift for Harry Potter fans. START PLANNING NOW: Fill in the months and dates in this undated planner to start a year of planning at any time 12 MONTHS: Each month features an at a glance monthly calendar and five weekly calendars with of room for all of your events, plans, and projects OVER 250 PLANNER STICKERS: Includes 3 sheets of planner stickers which total more than 250 stickers for you customize your planner CONVENIENT SIZE: This undated 7 x 9.25-inch planner is perfect for a desk or easy to throw in a bag on the go PERFECT FOR STUDENTS AND ADULTS: Achieve HERMIONE GRANGERTM-levels of organization! This undated planner is perfect for keeping both students and professionals organized
Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture
This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides detailed readings of play texts to explore the politics, pathologies and parodies of mourning.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape social obligations. Its funny dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. Despite the play's early success, Wilde's notoriety and prison caused the play to be closed after 86 performances. After his release from prison, he published the play from exile in Paris. The play is now considered Wilde's masterpiece. Apart from of a number of radio, opera, musical, and "made-for-television" versions, The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for the English-language cinema at least three times. "More humorous dealing with theatrical conventions it would be difficult to imagine. Mr Oscar Wilde has decorated a humour that is Gilbertian with innumerable spangles of that wit that is all his own" -- H. G. Wells
Treasure
Treasure: The Poetic Jewel by Ta穩ana Valent穩ne paints kite canvases of meaningful written poetic grit, and eloquence of urban nostalgia traveling between African American porch talks about history, to the current tug of war on love with liberation against urban diaspora. Some acclaimed Poems featured in the book include "Stop the Violence & Increase the Peace," "The Strength Within," and "Positive Train."
Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz
In twenty-four chapters David Kaplan offers ideas, opinions, theories, and facts for someone who wants to be a theater artist today in hopes of creating their own vision of theater-making, one informed by, and in the context of, theater history. This book explores what theater artists have done before and what they, inspired by history, might do next.A non-lineal theater history, Shakespeare Shamans, and Show Biz explores theater as a shaman's vision, as a storyteller's heritage, as religious propaganda, as a mirror of life, as a critique of society, as a prompt for hard laughter, as fantasy, and as national epic, with plays as different (and the same) as the writings of August Wilson, Gertrude Stein, Shakespeare, and people who never made it into history.Each chapter explores a particular theme: "The Middle Ages as a State of Mind," "Commedia dell'arte and Moli癡re," "Shakespeare-To Begin," "Euripides-Forever Modern," "Aeschylus-Writing in an Age of Certainty," "Sophocles and Aristotle-Defining Tragedy," "Greek Comedy," "Roman Theater," "Asian Classics and Rules" (Bunrakuken, Chikamatsu, Zeami), China-The Pear Garden and the Red Pear Garden," "Neoclassic Theater and Why There is Such a Thing," "Shakespeare's Classic," "Bad Boys Breaking the Rules" (Brecht, Ibsen, and Jarry), "Inside Outside" (Ibsen, Strindberg, Turgenev, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Antoine), "Beyond Illusion" (Appia, Craig, Poel), "Melodrama and Popular Theater in America" (Aiken, Brice, Cohan, Stone, Tyler, Bert Williams), "American Classic: Eugene O'Neill and Martha Graham," "Expressionism to Epic" (Brecht, Meyerhold, O'Neill, Piscator, Treadwell), "American Agitprop: Overt and Disguised" (Adler, Clurman, Flanagan, Kazan, Le Gallienne, Miller, Odets, Robeson, Strasberg, Wilder), "Poetry of the Theater" (Artaud, Breton, Cocteau, Ionesco, Kharms, Stein), "Personal Mythology" (Genet, Lorca, Mishima, Strindberg), "Two Masters: Samuel Becket and Tennessee Williams," "Theater of Identity" (Baraka, Ensler, Kramer, Wilson), and "Missing from History" (Bonner, Forn矇s, Kennedy, Maeterlinck).
The Longest Suicide in Hollywood
As matinee idols go, Montgomery Clift had the looks, the personality and the acting talent to climb to the top of the heap as one of Hollywood's leading men of the 1950s. Tackling westerns like Red River, suspense pictures like I Confess, war films like From Here to Eternity, to romance and drama in films like A Place in the Sun and The Heiress, Clift had it all. However, having it all was not everything it was cracked up to be for this complex man. Struggling with stardom and his place in the limelight, Clift loved acting, but hated Hollywood. He shunned the spotlight and avoided Tinsel Town. In 1956 during the making of Raintree County he was involved in a horrific car crash that nearly took his life. The difficult recovery left him addicted to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain. It was a slippery slope for a man who was already on the edge. From 1956 until his death in 1966, insiders called it, "The longest suicide in Hollywood." Now, go behind the films, the life and the struggles of Montgomery Clift for a look at the highs and lows and difficult last years of one of Hollywood's brightest stars.
Monologues for Adults
Need a killer monologue for an audition? Discover a wealth of fresh options in this detailed tome.Sick of the same scripts being done to death? Looking for a soliloquy relevant to today's contemporary world? Seeking material with a positive spin? Full voting member of the National Television Academy and Tonight Show sketch comedy performer Mike Kimmel has been writing, acting, and producing for decades. Now he's here to share a curated collection of sixty of the best comedy and drama monologues.Monologues for Adults is the ultimate volume of family-friendly stage material to help you nail that college drama program audition or professional stage performance. With relatable, real world topics applicable to adults, these pieces require no costumes or props, and discuss ethical questions perfect for deep thinkers to explore. And with literally dozens of gender-neutral and unique scenes to choose from, you'll find the right piece to take you from zero to callback in no time at all.Monologues for Adults is the dramatic arts advantage you need in your next live performance. If you like fresh material, optimistic spins, and challenging ideas, you'll love Mike Kimmel's definitive new resource.
Verbatim - The Fun of Making Theatre Seriously
Widely studied, frequently staged - verbatim theatre is everywhere. In this new book, playwright Mark Wheeller, one of the most performed living playwright in the UK, takes a personal journey through the form, and demystifies the making process. Perfect for teachers, educators, and students.
Sound Effect
Longlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 Sound Effect tells the story of the effect of theatrical aurality on modern culture. Beginning with the emergence of the modern scenic sound effect in the late 18th century, and ending with headphone theatre which brings theatre's auditorium into an intimate relationship with the audience's internal sonic space, the book relates contemporary questions of theatre sound design to a 250-year Western cultural history of hearing. It argues that while theatron was an instrument for seeing and theorizing, first a collective hearing, or audience is convened. Theatre begins with people entering an acoustemological apparatus that produces a way of hearing and of knowing. Once, this was a giant marble ear on a hillside, turned up to a cosmos whose inaudible music accounted for all. In modern times, theatre's auditorium, or instrument for hearing, has turned inwards on the people and their collective conversance in the sonic memes, tropes, clich矇s and picturesques that constitute a popular, fictional ontology. This is a study about drama, entertainment, modernity and the theatre of audibility. It addresses the cultural frames of resonance that inform our understanding of SOUND as the rubric of the world we experience through our ears. Ross Brown reveals how mythologies, pop-culture, art, commerce and audio, have shaped the audible world as a form of theatre. Garrick, De Loutherbourg, Brecht, Dracula, Jekyll, Hyde, Spike Milligan, John Lennon, James Bond, Scooby-Do and Edison make cameo appearances as Brown weaves together a history of modern hearing, with an argument that sound is a story, audibility has a dramaturgy, hearing is scenographic, and the auditoria of drama serve modern life as the organon, or definitive frame of reference, on the sonic world.
The Applied Improvisation Mindset
How can the practice of improvisation become the lens through which we view the world? The Applied Improvisation Mindset takes readers deep into the maturing field of Applied Improvisation (AI), with stories of 18 practitioners from five countries who embrace an improvisation mindset to create a more collaborative, equitable, sustainable, and joyous world. Myriad organizations have discovered how the mindset and skills applied by great improvisers onstage can reveal emergent, generative ways of interacting with others offstage. With case studies on developing presentation skills, reducing anxiety in teens, or preparing climate risk managers across the globe for the challenges ahead, this second volume serves as a valuable resource for both experienced and new AI facilitators. It is a primer for higher education and K-12 faculty combatting traditional teaching limitations and a practical "how to" for theatre practitioners, artists, educators, or anyone seeking to transform their organizations and communities.
Hosted Horror on Television
In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films called Shock Theater. These movies became a huge sensation with TV viewers, as did the horror hosts who introduced the films and offered insight--often humorous--into the plots, the actors, and the directors. This history of hosted horror walks readers through the best TV horror films, beginning with the 1930s black-and-white classics from Universal Studios and ending with the grislier color films of the early 1970s. It also covers and explores the horror hosts who presented them, some of whom faded into obscurity while others became iconic within the genre.
Ida Rubinstein
The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960) captivated Paris's dancers, composers, artists, and audiences from her time in the Ballets Russes in 1909 to her final performances in 1939. Trained in Russia as an actress and a dancer, her life spanned the artistic freedom of the Belle ?poque through the ravages of World War I, the Depression, and finally World War II. This critical biography carefully examines aspects of Rubinstein's life and career that have previously received little attention. These include her early life in Russia, her writing about performance aesthetics, her curated approach to acting and dancing roles, and her encumbered position as a woman and a Jew. Rubinstein used her considerable fortune to produce dozens of plays, lyric creations, and ballets, making her one of the foremost producers of the first half of the twentieth century. Employing the greatest scenic artists, L矇on Bakst and Alexander Benois; the distinguished composers Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger, and Claude Debussy; celebrated writers including Paul Val矇ry and Andr矇 Gide; and the brilliant choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, Rubinstein transformed twentieth-century theater and dance.
Fat on Film
Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''war against the obesity epidemic''. In Fat on Film, Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness during this timeframe, specifically in contemporary Hollywood cinema, with an emphasis on the intersection of gender, race and fatness. The analysis is based on around 50 films released since 2000 and includes examples such as Transformers (2007), Precious (2009), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Paul Blart (2009) and Pitch Perfect (2012).Plotz maps the common cinematic tropes of fatness and also shows how commonplace notions of fatness that are part of the current ''obesity epidemic'' discourse are reflected in these tropes. In this original study, Plotz brings critical attention to the politics of fat representation, a topic that has so far received little attention within film and cinema studies.
