Three Plays Absurd Person Singular Absent Friends Bedroom Farce
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Three Plays Absurd Person Singular Absent Friends Bedroom Farce
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Author : Alan Ayckbourn
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-12-31
Three Plays Absurd Person Singular Absent Friends Bedroom Farce written by Alan Ayckbourn and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with Drama categories.
'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny' Daily Telegraph In Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.
Bedroom Farce
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Author : Alan Ayckbourn
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Release Date : 1979-01-01
Bedroom Farce written by Alan Ayckbourn and has been published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-01-01 with Drama in English, 1945- - Texts categories.
Funny, gripping and wrenchingly truthful, these three blackly comic plays slice into the soul of suburbia. Couples - often mismatched, sometimes disorientated - dominate the action. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - all familiar terrains where husbands and wives meet, bewildered, puzzled and angry. 'In the hilarious delineation of marital pain there is no one to touch Alan Ayckbourn' Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph.
Three Plays
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Author : Alan Ayckbourn
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1979
Three Plays written by Alan Ayckbourn and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Drama categories.
"A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect. In Absent Friends, Diana and Paul host a tea party for Colin, recently returned to England after the tragic drowning of his fiancée. But Colin proves impervious to their awkward attempts to console him as he unwittingly touches every raw nerve in the troubled lives of his old friends. The action of Bedroom Farce unfolds simultaneously--and uproariously--in the onstage bedrooms of three couples all in some way connected to an utterly self-absorbed fourth couple who heedlessly intrude on their friends' privacy, leaving chaos in their wake."--Page 4 of cover.
Contemporary British Drama 1970 90
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Author : Hersh Zeifman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1993-04-27
Contemporary British Drama 1970 90 written by Hersh Zeifman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.
Reunion Dark Pony
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Author : David Mamet
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 1990
Reunion Dark Pony written by David Mamet and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Drama categories.
Reunion depicts the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter drawn together by their loneliness after twenty years of separation...In the short vignette Dark Pony, a father tells a favorite bedtime story to comfort his young daughter as they drive home late at night.
The Story Of Drama
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Author : Gary Day
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-25
The Story Of Drama written by Gary Day and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landmark plays and their context. It argues that sacrifice is central to both genres, and demonstrates how it provides a key to understanding the grand sweep of Western drama. For students of literature and drama the volume serves as an accessible companion to over two millennia of drama organised by period, and reveals how sacrifice represents a through-line running from classical drama to today's reality TV and blockbuster movies. Across the chapters devoted to each period, Day explores how the meanings of sacrifice change over time, but never quite disappear. He charts the influences of religion, social change and politics on the status and purposes of theatre in each period, and on the drama itself. But it is through a close study of key plays that he reveals the continuities centred around sacrifice that persist and which illuminate aspects of human psychology and social organisation. Among the many plays and events considered are Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmorphia, Menander's The Bad-Tempered Man, the spectacles of the Roman Games, Seneca's The Trojan Women, Plautus's The Rope, the Cycle plays and Everyman from the Middle Ages, Shakespeare's King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, Thomas Otway's The Orphan, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, Beckett' Waiting for Godot, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, Sarah Kane's Blasted and Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy. A conclusion examines the persistence of ideas of sacrifice in today's reality TV and blockbuster movies.
A Companion To Modern British And Irish Drama 1880 2005
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Author : Mary Luckhurst
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
A Companion To Modern British And Irish Drama 1880 2005 written by Mary Luckhurst and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Dramatic Adventures In Rhetoric
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Author : Giles Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-04
Dramatic Adventures In Rhetoric written by Giles Taylor and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-04 with Performing Arts categories.
A practical, accessible and thorough guide to identifying and using rhetorical devices in drama, using examples from both classical and contemporary plays. An unprecedented reference and handbook for actors, directors, playwrights and teachers; written by practitioners for practitioners. Little has been written about how dramatists draw on rhetorical devices, and how a study of these can unlock a text for a performer or director, or indeed inspire contemporary playwrights. This book addresses in detail – yet in straightforward terms – the many different rhetorical forms used in drama, and enables the reader to identify and analyse them. Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric may be read cover to cover, or it may be dipped into; it is both an analytic tool and a reference aid for use in the classroom or rehearsal room, revealing how careful study of language is one of the best ways of accessing the richness of texts both classical and contemporary.
Ends And Odds
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Author : Samuel Beckett
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Ends And Odds written by Samuel Beckett and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Drama categories.
Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot.
Modern Dramatists
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Author : Kimball King
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-03
Modern Dramatists written by Kimball King and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-03 with Performing Arts categories.
This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.