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The Outstanding Actor

Seven Keys to Success

by Ken Rea
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

Drawing on Ken Rea's 30 years' teaching experience and research, as well as interviews with top actors and directors, The Outstanding Actor identifies seven key qualities that the most successful actors manifest, along with practical exercises that help nurture those qualities. Featuring contributions...
Cover of Stanislavski: An Introduction
by Jean Benedetti
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016

'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to both Stanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of his writings' Theatre Journal '...shows the System to be a practical process - drama school students and actors will be grateful for it' Times Eductational Supplement 'A...
Cover of Comus
by John Milton
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

Comus is a Masque drama by John Milton.  The play as all characters on stage and when their turn comes to present a part in the action they speak while everyone else remains.  Comus is a prowling magician of Satanic proportions who comes across a Lady in the forest.  He invites her to be entertained...
Cover of Early American Drama
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997

This unique volume includes eight early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tylers The Contrast (1789); William Dunlap'sAndre (1798); James Nelson Barker's The Indian Princess (1808); Robert Montgomery Bird's The Gladiator (1831); William Henry Smith's The...
Cover of The Accused
by Jeffrey Archer
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014

Innocent or guilty? You decide. Jeffrey Archer's play, The Accused, is a tense courtroom drama with a difference. The audience will act as the jury, as if they were in the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey. You will have to decide... Did Dr Sherwood murder his wife? Was Jennifer Mitchell...
Cover of More by Mencken
by H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012

This volume contains five works by Henry Louis Mencken: “Pistols for Two,” “Heliogabalus,” “The Artist: A Drama Without Words,” “Suggestions to Our Visitors,” and “George Bernard Shaw: His Plays.”  None of these books are included in the volume “Six by Mencken and One by...
Cover of Apprenticeship
by Peter Gill
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008

Apprenticeship is Peter Gill's potent recollection of the changing theatrical landscape of the 1960s. Part history, part memoir, part polemic, it puts into context his recently discovered diary of 1962 in which he vividly recalls his experiences as a young actor in Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle...
Cover of An Enemy of the People
by Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1977

A Penguin Classic When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated, he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann's good deed has the potential to ruin the town's...
Cover of Enron
by Lucy Prebble
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

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...
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by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012

Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned Salomé from the national stage. Symbolist poets and writers — Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck among them — defended the play's literary brilliance. Beyond its notoriety, the drama's...
Cover of The Complete Plays: Paracelsus, Stafford, Herakles, The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, Bells and Pomegranates, Pippa Passes, King Victor and King Charles, The Return of the Druses, Luria and a Soul’s Tragedy
by Robert Browning
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Plays” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Robert Browning (1812 – 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of...
Cover of Spring Awakening
by Frank Wedekind
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012

A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality. Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains relevant to today's society, exploring the oppression and rebellion of adolescents among draconian parents...
Cover of The Recognition of Sakuntala
by Kalidasa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012

While out on a hunting trip, a king encounters a lovely maiden, and the course of their secret romance sweeps the audience from a forest hermitage to a dazzling palace to ethereal celestial realms. The tale of King Dusyanta and Śakuntala, who meet by chance and are separated by a curse, was derived...
Cover of Poetics
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Among the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle's Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute and lyre playing. Aristotle's conception of tragedy, i.e. the depiction of a heroic action that arouses...
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