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  • A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams

    The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth

    by Michael Hooper, Professor Stephen Bottoms, Prof. Philip Kolin ...
    A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Peter Carson ...
    At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactivity and lost idealism, and The Seagull contrasts a young man's selfish romanticism with the stoicism of a woman cruelly abandoned by her lover. With 'the scenes from ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Plays For The Poor Theatre

    The Saliva Milkshake; Christie in Love; Heads; Skinny Spew; Gum and Goo

    by Mr Howard Brenton ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the 'poor theatre' - as relevant today as when they were first written - since each play requires a small cast and minimal set, yet yields maximum theatricality.Christie in Love, Gum and Goo, Heads and The Education of Skinny Spew, were all first staged ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Enron

    by Ms Lucy Prebble, Luckstar Enterprises ...
    Series series Student Editions
    The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became 'the most vilified figure from the financial scandal of ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Architecture of Story

    A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer

    by Will Dunne ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "Together with The Dramatic Writer's Companion, Dunne's The Architecture of Story is part of the most thorough course in playwriting available in print." —Art Borreca, head of Dramaturgy Program and co-head of Playwrights Workshop, the University of IowaWhile successful plays tend to share certain storytelling elements, there is no single blueprint for how a play should be constructed. Instead, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love

    by Mr Alexander Zeldin ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    But you can't do this to us - my partner is about to have a baby and we need to eat and pay rent - and we need to eat - how is this legal!In the run-up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation.A middle-aged man and his elderly mum, a young family with a baby on the way, a newly arrived woman from Sudan. Strangers. Forced together. No space is personal.In this ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Playwright's Muse

    by Joan Herrington ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Drama
    August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. The Playwright's Muse presents never-before-published ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Aeschylus: Eumenides

    by Robin Mitchell-Boyask ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of the controversies over the relationship between the fledgling democracy of Athens and the dramas it produced during the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Gospel According to James and Other Plays

    by Charles R. Smith ...
    This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James. Powerful, provocative, and entertaining, these plays have been produced by professional theater companies across the country and abroad. Four of the plays are based on historical people and events from W.E.B. Du Bois and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Gilbert and Sullivan

    Gender, Genre, Parody

    by Carolyn Williams ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were the hottest send-ups of the day's political and cultural obsessions. Gilbert and Sullivan's productions always rose to the level of social commentary, despite being impertinent, absurd, or inane. Some viewers may take them straight, but what looks like sexism or ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Arms and the Man - An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts

    by Bernard Shaw ...
    Arms And The Man' is a three-act play written by Bernard Shaw in 1920. An 'anti-romantic comedy', this play endeavours to attack the romantic notion of war by portraying a much more realistic illustration of its plights. A clever, witty, and subtle gem of theatre from the author of 'Pygmalion' that continues to hold up more than 100 years after its writing, this is a play that will appeal to those ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Morgan: Three Plays

    The Flashing Stream; The River Line; The Burning Glass

    by Charles Morgan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays The River Line, The Flashing Stream and The Burning GlassCharles Morgan was a distinguished novelist before he moved onto stage drama, with his reputation as a major dramatist established by his first play, The Flashing Stream. Morgan was unique for combining the roles of principal dramatic critic of The Times withthat of a practicing dramatist. The Daily Herald wrote that The ... Read more

    $23.89 USD