Playwriting category: 893 books

Cover of The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000

For more than 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights – Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others – who have gone on to establish award-winning careers. The...
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Three Scientists of the Ancient World

Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia

by John Wain, Laszlo Solymar
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers. All three of them came into conflict with the prevalent views of the time. Anaxagoras...
Cover of Page to Stage

Page to Stage

The Craft of Adaptation

by Vincent Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013

At last, for those who adapt literature into scripts, a how-to book that illuminates the process of creating a stageworthy play. Page to Stage describes the essential steps for constructing adaptations for any theatrical venue, from the college classroom to a professionally produced production. Acclaimed...
Cover of Those Who Can't, Teach
by Haresh Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016

Those Who Can’t, Teach turns the spotlight on the madcap lives of teachers and students in a typical secondary school in Singapore. As the teachers struggle daily to nurture and groom, the students prefer to hang out and “chillax”. With upskirting and Facebooking, griping and politicking, school...
Cover of Tonight With Donny Stixx
by Philip Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017

It's at times like this I'm inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not for the fact that during his most famous trick – sword swallowing – he accidentally punctured a...
Cover of Love
by Mr Alexander Zeldin
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

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...
Cover of A Thousand Splendid Suns (Play Script)

A Thousand Splendid Suns (Play Script)

Based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini

by Ursula Rani Sarma
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

The script for the stage production of the bestselling Khaled Hosseini novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, as adapted by playwright Ursula Rani Sarma. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by...
Cover of El Gran Parque
by Luisa Josefina Hernández, Fernando Martínez Monroy, Emilio Carballido
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 22, 2018

Este libro incluye cinco obras teatrales de una de las dramaturgas más importantes de México: "El Gran Parque", "El parque I", "El parque II", "El parque III" y "El parque encantado". El espacio une y separa, reúne y convoca a personajes tipo de...
Cover of Adapting Translation for the Stage
by Geraldine Brodie, Emma Cole
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

Translating for performance is a difficult – and hotly contested – activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those working across these boundaries, exploring common themes and issues encountered when writing,...
Cover of Gogol's Government Inspector
by David Harrower
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral satire. David Harrower's version of Nikolai Gogol's...
Cover of Sweet Nothings
by David Harrower, Arthur Schnitzler
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010

A young man has an affair with a married woman. He is terrified her husband will challenge him to a duel and kill him. Meanwhile he toys with the affections of another and, for a moment, life seems full of joy. The doorbell rings. The husband enters the room. Based on Schnitzler's play...
Cover of Women in the Book Trade: Three Women Publishers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
by Annie Southern
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014

This book profiles three women publishers at three women's presses: Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press in the nineteenth century, and Lilian Mohin at Onlywomen Press and Sue Butterworth at Silver Moon Books in the twentieth century. The contribution of these women to their respective women's movements,...
Cover of Antigone
by Slavoj Žižek
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to...
Cover of The Mountaintop
by Katori Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his mind? He is not a man, but I am a man. The...
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