Playwriting category: 893 books
Writing Left-Handed
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The leading British writer-director of his generation, David Hare is also one of the most productive. The last two years have seen the outstanding success of two stage plays, The Secret Rapture and Racing Demon, and the release of two films, Paris by Night and Strapless.
The pieces collected...
The Path of Hope
Volume Ii
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The Path of Hope is a play that actually portrays the social reality of the people, how to live in society where we belong. It is really not a book whose value can be achieved by mere literary analysis. Then sooner or later the same book will take its place in American literature and also in the world...
Shakespeare's Ear
Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Theater
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A “page-turningly entertaining” history of scandals and skulduggery onstage and off (William Lyons, historical adviser for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre).
Filled with fact, folklore, and stories of revenge, murder, affairs, and persecution, Shakespeare’s Ear shows that in the world of...
The Power of Yes
A Dramatist Seeks to Understand the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines well into 2009, this spring the National Theatre asked David Hare to write an urgent and immediate work to be staged this autumn that sought to find out what had...
John Osborne
The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography–the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression–reveals the notorious rebel in all his heartrending...
The Playwright's Voice
American Dramatists on Memory, Writing and the Politics of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
• first volume sales: over 10,000 copies since 1988 In Their Own Words, 0930452704, 2400 sold. • interviews with the leading American Playwrights. • 16 interviews • photos and introductions • Big galley run
by Gordon Burgett
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Description of Emceeing, Show Planning, and Script Writing
Practical, applied experience and examples (including two full scripts) for folks wanting advice about emceeing, and the show planning and/or script writing often related to it or required to do a first-rate job.
These are the...
by John Russell Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the ‘well-made play’ in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far, in allowing it to be devalued, we have lost sight of certain important elements of the theatre. The focus of the book is largely on the development of...
Le Théâtre et son double
Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une biographie d'Antonin Artaud (texte intégral)
Language: French
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Le Théâtre et son double est une série d'essais écrit par Antonin Artaud et publiée en 1938 dans laquelle il développe le concept de théâtre de la cruauté. Le livre consiste en une série de courts « essais » exaltés, à la forme poétique très libre. Certains de ces essais sont tirés...
by Neil Simon
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The complete memoirs of Neil Simon, the greatest—and most successful—American playwright of all time, the author of such iconic works as Lost in Yonkers, The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, and The Goodbye Girl, now with an insightful Introduction by Nathan Lane.
This omnibus edition combines...
In Their Own Words
Contemporary American Playwrights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson.
by James Yarker, Dr Mark Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Since it was founded in 1991, British theatre company Stan's Cafe has garnered an international reputation for artistic innovation, and prolific, eclectic performance projects. Their work has toured nationally and internationally, with 2003's Of All The People In All The World having been performed...
by Antonio Vaccaro
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Le ultime ventiquattro ore di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, lo scrittore, e, insieme, del Principe di Salina, il Gattopardo: dal momento in cui il Tomasi riceve e legge la lettera di Elio Vittorini che comunica la “bocciatura” del romanzo al congedo dalla vita preparato dal colloquio, teso e carico...
Camicette Rosse
Mille e una storia del Risorgimento
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Uno dei pochi testi teatrali che, nel 150esimo dell’Unità, realizzano un progetto quanto mai arduo e affascinante: mettere in scena quello che solitamente si definìsce il “Risorgimento invisibile”: ovvero storie di donne che parteciparono all’impresa risorgimentale imprimendovi segni, svolte...