Drama category: 27605 books
by Patrick Lonergan, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative account of Irish drama and theatre, spanning the past seventy years. Rather than offering a linear narrative, the volume traces key themes to illustrate the relationship between theatre and changes...
by Amy Muse, Patrick Lonergan, Kevin J. Wetmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century. Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, she has won a MacArthur "Genius†? Grant and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award,...
by Michelene Wandor
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key, representative British plays from the last fifty years.
Repositioning the text at the heart of hteatre...
The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays
How the Vote Was Won, Lady Geraldine’s Speech, Pot and Kettle, Miss Appleyard’s Awakening, Her Vote, The Mother’s Meeting, The Anti-Suffragist or The Other Side, Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays is an anthology of eight exciting pieces written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 1909-13. Immediately playable, they offer strong, varied roles for female casts, while also providing invaluable source material to students and scholars...
Three Uses of the Knife
On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic...
Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
The Ballet d'Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention was to create drama. It was danced drama rather than dramatic dance, musical drama rather than dramatic...
by Jessica Swale
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
101 great drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting. Part of the NHB Drama Games series.
A dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with 101 lively drama games suitable for players of all ages, with many appropriate for children from age 6 upwards. Whilst aimed...
The Greek Plays
Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King
Featuring translations by Emily Wilson, Frank...
The Contemporary Political Play
Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs? Is it purely a matter of content or is it also a matter of structure?
The Contemporary Political...
by Timothy House
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
A life-long love story of a couple who survive through tragedy only to bask in triumph later in life. The story is told through their emails, love notes, and poetry to each other. Peter and Mia are like any other couple. Fall in love, start a whirlwind romance, get married, and have children. Life...
Euripidean Drama
Myth, Theme and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
It is a commonly held view among historians of Greek literature that with the advent of Euripides the tragic structure, even the tragic outlook of Greek drama suffered a breakdown from which it never recovered. While there is much truth in this opinion, it has tended to put too much emphasis on "Euripides...
by Siyuan Liu, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
A companion volume to Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900–2000, this anthology contains nine emblematic scripts from twentieth and twenty-first century Asian theatre. Opening with a history of modern Asian drama and a summary of the plays and their contexts, it features nine works written...
by Anton Chekhov, Stephen Karam
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
• Originally premiered Off-Broadway with the Roundabout Theatre Company in the fall of 2016
• Original production starred Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Lane
• Karam won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play for his smash hit play The Humans
• Karam has written two...
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers
Welcome Home Jacko, Chiaroscuro, Talking in Tongues, Sing Yer Heart Out ..., Fix Up, Gone Too Far!
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream,...